Robert Rudzki of Supply Chain Management Review has written a blog recently about the topic of disintermediation in supply chain. We all remember late 1990's when people were talking energetically...

There is certainly a business case for a company without an integrated system to go for ERP implementation but is there really an ROI for ERP upgrade? The answer is not always yes. I read this...

BioConvergence has forged a 'significant' supply chain partnership with Eli Lilly, worth millions of dollars over ten years. According to In-Pharma Technologist, the Indiana-based firm will be...

Management Dynamics, a leading provider of global trade management solutions, today announced its receipt of two distinctive industry honors, e-News Channels reported. The company has been selected to...

News from Australia: Woolworths, a major force in retail sector in Australia, has invested further in its supply chain redevelopment program by adding sophisticated business process management (BPM)...

MIT has recently made an agreement with Center for Latin American Logistics Innovation for shaping an alliance in the area of logistics research. With this new agreement, now MIT Center for...

Panorama Consulting is a small consulting firm which is focused on ERP Advisory Services. I don't know about their credentials but I was a point of view from their website and I found it quite...

Supply and Demand Chain Executive has recently published the 2008 list of supply chain Pros to know: Unfortunately I am not in the list :) (I had not applied either). But taking a look at the list is...

As the fuel prices are rising, supply chain managers should re-think the design of their supply chain network. That is what Dr. Simchi Levi of MIT says based on his simulation experience. In a recent...

A recent research done by CAPS Center for Strategic Supply Research found that purchased services averaged 39% of total purchasing spending. However, about 69% of the supply chain management...

I think it's time to run another roll of SupplyChainer readers' feedback to figure out whether we are serving you in a proper way or not. So please tell us: What do you think about this...

IBM has become one of the winners of the 2008 Supply Chain Excellence Awards, announced at the Supply-Chain World Conference & Expo, Business Wire reported. The Supply Chain Excellence Awards are...

Supply Chain Coaching, a website dedicated to providing training resources about supply chain has prepared a video about common inventory models used in the industry. I have brought the link below....

Kinaxis announced recently that Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology (TMD) will deploy its RapidResponse solution across its global supply chain to improve performance of the operations. TMD, a joint...

A short but interesting news from Triangle Business Journal: IBM opens a supply chain research center in China. IBM said Thursday that it is opening a supply-chain research center in China to help...

According to Business Wire, JDA Software Group, Inc. announced recently that Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, the second largest Coke bottler in the U.S. with 6,000 employees and $1.4 billion in...

We hear from time to time about the research going on to identify excellent supply chains. Some organizations such as AMR Research even go further and prepare a list of top 25 supply chains of the...

Here you can find the second part of the video where Raimund Diederichs (Director, McKinsey&Company) talks about supply chain in China. In this part, he talks about the logistics future of the...

Companies have different motivations for launching promotion programs: Some want to get rid of the inventory in the warehouses, some of them are get paid by the suppliers, some want to increase...