Game on Supply Chain Management at Supplychainer

XIMB, a business school in India, has arranged a supply chain management game to test the decision-making skills of the participants in the field. According to Cool Avenues, The game will be based on real life supply chain modules of various sectors like automobile, retail, etc. The methodological issues would be validation, verification, optimization and a robust analysis of the different Operational areas like, Procurement, Logistics, Facility Location, Inventory management, [...] Read More


Supply chain video: Automotive supply chain in China from Dave's point of view (1) at Supplychainer

Gasgoo.com, a website on China Auto trends, recently had an interesting interview with Dave Nelson. Dave is the Chief supply chain / strategy officer for HTC Global Services, Inc. & Former vice president of Delphi, Honda America and deere. In this part (first part), he talks about some of the requirements for auto makers to become successful especially in China. [...] Read More


Panasonic Achieves Supply Chain Excellence with i2 Channel Management Solution at Supplychainer

Panasonic has leveraged i2 solution and managed service to boost sales and improve order fulfillment. panasonic Consumer Electronics, a household name in the global consumer electronics market, has succeeded in beating the price competition with effective channel management. While evaluating the performance of its fast growing plasma TV business Panasonic realized that the rapid price erosion of both the finished products and components left it with razor-thin margins. Panasonic executives [...] Read More


The new supply chain rules at Sox First

Mattel's recall of some 20 million toys last year highlighted that the old supply chain had changed. About 65 per cent of Mattel's toys are made in China, where about 50 per cent of Mattel's production is produced in company-owned plants. But apparently, the controls were not strict enough, particularly when it came to overseeing Mattel's rogue subcontractors. In a globalized economy, companies now need to be be in charge [...] Read More


Supply Chain Disappoints, Go For Niches at The RFID Weblog

In an article at RFID Journal this morning, an analyst with Frost & Sullivan notes that disappointment with respect to low volumes in retail supply chain RFID applications has caused some RFID suppliers to diversify away from focus on retail supply chain, and toward what she calls "niche" applications and markets. Analyst Priyanka Gouthaman writes: There has been considerable RFID activity in certain industrial sectors, such as semiconductors, petroleum, chemicals, oil and [...] Read More