One of the methods which is used to make a roadmap of possible dominant technologies and trends in innovation area is Scenario Planning. The method was originally invented by the oil company Shell (I...

According to a new report from Diamond Management & Technology Consultants, companies that take a holistic view of their supply chains and incorporate environmentally-friendly principles at key...

Several factors have contributed to the erosion in the outsourcing rate to India and China. Among them we can refer to: - Current trends in currency exchange rates - Increasing commodity costs -...

Some while ago I wrote a piece on the MIT's Dr. Simchi Levi research on simulation of supply chain fuel cost. He was showing that in the case the fuel cost increase to high levels (around $200),...

For a long period of time, in fact more than one hundred years, U.S. has been the number one nation to have the largest share of production in the world but according to a new research by Global...

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...

One recent study by AMR Research has found that U.S. and China have the highest level of supply chain risk in global supply chains. Unfortunately I haven't read the report and just saw the press...

In order to effectively manage the supply chain in a firm, we have to think about the weakest link in the chain, but in the context of a European multi-national which is operating all around the...

Many companies treat purchasing function as backwater as McKinsey says and don't assign the best talent to it. However, this function is of great importance and if we look closely, in many...

I just read a new report from Marsh Group (part of the OliverWyman Group) which was covering their new benchmark study on supply chain risk management. The report they have prepared is really new and...

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...

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...

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...

As business process outsourcing becomes more important, companies try to find new processes to standardize and after HR, it`s now the time for Accounts Payable. But according to a new research by...

I usually screen a number of supply chain related publications once per week to see what is being written by the other members of SCM community. Yesterday I saw an interesting graph in Supply Chain...

Around two-thirds of supply chain professionals in the chemicals industry say their companies have no formal processes for identifying and sharing supply chain best practices, according to a study...

In the recent years, there has been a shift happening in supply chain strategy area and that's moving from pure cost/efficiency area to include agility, speed, green requirements and service. But...

This question has always been on the table that "Does ERP really make a difference in the company's value chain?" Another day I was organizing my documents and suddenly found an old...