Now that many global companies have already used offshoring to India and China to reduce the cost of their operation, the question which remains on the table is: What is the next step? What should be...

OSRAM S.p.A. has announced that it will use ToolsGroup Service Optimizer 99+ solution to optimize the planning processes of raw materials and components managed at its production site in Treviso,...

Schneider National, Inc., provider of transportation and logistics services, has been named the Supply Chain Provider of the Year for 2007 by jcpenney, Layover reported. Established by JCPenney, the...

Nike, without a doubt is one the companies which logistics plays a key role in its business. As the company has nearly outsourced all steps in the manufacturing and sells the product via an external...

PRTM, well-known Management consulting firm, has recently published the results of a new research on the supply chain trends during 2008-2010 period. You can read the whole report here, but in the...

Yesterday I asked you about the current growth situation of the salaries in SCM. So, will the market be growing or declining in terms of salaries? In order to make a better judgement, I decided to...

Relocating of supply chain management operations in high-tech industry is not limited to consumer goods mainstream players such as Dell Computer but now European companies in areas such as...

The Institute for Supply Management recently published the results of a salary survey between logistics and SCM professionals. I have brought the average salary levels based on the job categories...

As you know, compliance is a hot topic these days especially in the area of sourcing and PLM as these are the areas which the process of decision making on the type of material to be used happens. The...

University of San Francisco has launched a new online master in supply chain management. You can find more info. here. Couple of months ago I wrote a post on available masters in supply chain...

Some while ago I read that supplying Canada's war effort in Kandahar, Afghanistan, has been hampered by delays in shipping everything from spare parts for battered vehicles to Medical devices . In...

Two days ago I posted a video on warehousing location decisions; and I was thinking of writing a complementary piece on location decisions focusing on the things we should do and the ones that...

Even though the result of the recent research by Matthew B. Myers and Mee-Shew Cheung, published in MIT Sloan Management Review, has shown that during supply chain Knowledge Sharing activities,...

Warehouse locations are one of the most important decisions taken by logistics managers. In fact one of the main functionalities of network design software solutions by i2 and ILOG is warehouse...

I just read somewhere that SAP has reached the record of more than 10,000 clients using its late version ERP software. That's a great success and has already put SAP as the dominant leader in the...

The growing movement of Web 2.0 and wiki pages has finally arrived in Supply Chain and one good example is Supply Chain Wiki. I was looking for a supply chain reference for a long time and became very...

For a global company nowadays, using China as one of the base countries for sourcing and offshoring is a must and we see these across many sectors such as electronic consumer goods, medical devices...

For those of you who are interested in risk management issues in supply chain, there is this event organized for early November in Netherlands which specifically address the subject of supply chain...

Bob Ferrari has written a piece recently in his blog on key takaways from 19th Annual State of Logistics Report sponsored by Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP). I found his...