Seen that? - How to persuade senior management about the value of SCM

Filed in archive Best of on February 8, 2010

How to persuade senior management about the value of SCM Supplychainer

Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) has published a book recently with this title: "COMMUNICATING THE VALUE OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT TO YOUR CEO". Actually, this is a book that every supply chain manager or professional is looking for, because in spite of crucial importance of the issue, persuading senior management of that has sometimes proved difficult. In this brief practical guideline(24 pages), three PhDs with deep experience in logistics [...] Read More


Richard Garrity Named Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Management for Chromcraft Revington Supplychainer

Chromcraft Revington, Inc. announced that Richard J. Garrity will join the Company as senior vice president of supply chain management. Garrity will report directly to Ben Anderson-Ray, the Company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining Chromcraft Revington, Garrity worked at Thomasville Furniture Industries as Vice President of Supply Chain Management. His previous experience includes similar supply chain executive management positions with Staples Inc., Homelife Furniture Corporation, Enesco and other [...] Read More


Where is the place of demand management in the organization? Supplychainer

I got into an interesting discussion the other day about the position of Demand Planner. The question was simple: Where should we put demand planner? in Procurement? Sales? Operations? or supply chain? Apart from the general statement that "Of course it depends on the type of the product and the nature of the industry", I myself were interested to find a specific answer for this question. In this respect, it is [...] Read More


Senior Management Clueless - Sound Familiar? The RFID Weblog

A recent survey by Unisys U.K. found that just under half of board level executives had no idea what RFID is. Source: "Senior management 'clueless' about RFID." I do not find this survey all that surprising. After all, in the not-so-distant (pre-Wal-Mart mandate) past, RFID technology was rather obscure and even a little boring. So it doesn't shock me that business executives, especially those far removed from day-to-day operations, might not [...] Read More


RFID Acting As a Support for Senior Citizens The RFID Weblog

Senior citizens at the Oatfield Estates have been wearing RFID badges which allow the officials entrusted with the responsibility of taking care of them to know actually where they are and what they are doing. The seniors are required to wear batches that signal to the dozens of infrared and radio frequency sensors inside the facility and outside on the grounds so that they can be tracked 365*7*24. With the [...] Read More