Please read the piece below which I have taken from Fortune Magazine: "It was mid-May the last time FBR Capital Market analyst Craig Berger checked with his contacts in Apple's supply chain,...

Every supply chain software has a beta client; the question is whether at the time of implementation, they know they are Beta client or not. I think in the international firms at Fortune 500 level,...

Recent trends in the logistics market such as rising price of fuel, tougher regulations on transport (e.g. in Europe) and different service level requirements by clients have caused some new...

One of the issues many supply chain managers are facing, especially when designing or changing the supply chain network is where to locate the facilities. Well, I was thinking of creating a sample and...

When your company is selling a lot, does that mean that you're doing good? How about when you accept new orders from customers? Not necessarily. One important point that we should keep in mind in...

In line with my earlier post about supply chain education and SCM job market "Supply Chain Education and Its Challenges", I decided to write a piece about supply chain talent market. Many...

I recently read a blog on the effectiveness of the supply chain education. The blog reflected the concerns of the managers regarding young supply chain professionals: "I am tired of recruiting...

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...

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...

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...

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...

These days Apple people are claiming that they have sold more than 3 million iPhones in 2007 and they estimate that they are going to sell another 7 million in 2008. I don't know how many...

I have already written a little about this but reading Hottest Supply Chain Buzzwords list in Industry Week became a motivation for me to pinpoint the issue one more time: Many manufacturers in U.S....

One of the interesting Figures which I saw recently on the subject of change management belongs to David Viney. We all have heard a lot about change management: The fact that is important and we have...

I was reading Financial Times today and again saw an article about the Nintendo's problems in Wii's supply chain. Apparently some of the Wii's suppliers can't scale up fast enough and...

Christmas period is coming again and also the wave of the news about stockout of different range of products; The newest one was about last week: George Harrison, senior vice president for marketing,...

Christmas is coming; everybody is happy: The kids are happy because they are going to get lots of presents, parents are happy coz they can rest a bit after that or go on a trip, marketing and sales...

We all know that only a fraction of companies implementing enterprise software can achieve a positive ROI from their system implementation projects (SAP, Oracle, or any other). A good area for...

Well, remember the earlier post which I wrote on the new supplier relationship system at Boeing? I warned about the drawbacks of over-outsourcing the design activities to the suppliers AND...Here it...