Seen that? - New Supply Chain Management Qualification by ISM

Filed in archive Best of on March 22, 2010

New Supply Chain Management Qualification by ISM Supplychainer

Today, I saw this new announcement by Institute for Supply Management? (ISM) about their new Supply Chain Management Qualification. ISM's Board of Directors recently approved the recommendation by the ISM Certification Committee that ISM develop a new professional qualification that recognizes those expanded competencies. The ISM Board directed that the program be available in 2008. "The new qualification will address the realities of supply management, workplace complexities including Globalization, greater use [...] Read More


Relocation and supply chain management function continues in high-tech sector Supplychainer

Relocating of supply chain management operations in high-tech industry is not limited to consumer goods mainstream players such as Dell Computer but now European companies in areas such as Semiconductor are also moving to Asia. Specifically, Nordic Semiconductor ASA will be setting up a regional supply chain headquarters in Manila, the Philippines. This will later be expanded to include a regional RF test-engineering group to support local backend test development [...] Read More


Jamba Juice Names New Vice President For Supply Chain Management Supplychainer

Apparently Jamba Juice, the producer of healthy blended beverages, juices and good-for-you snacks is undergoing a huge restructuring in its value chain. After appointing a new vice president for product innovation, now it's supply chain turn: The company announced yesterday the appointment of Greg Schwartz as Vice President, supply chain management, effective July 9, 2007. This newly created position will report directly to CFO Don Breen and develop and execute [...] Read More


Who says you are a CIO? The CIO Weblog

John C. Dvorak's accusation that Obama appointee to the US CIO role, Vivek Kundra, is a phony seems to be mostly a flash in the pan so far but it seems like the sort of thing that the mainstream media might pick up on just for shock value so I am getting the popcorn ready. Dvorak's primary knock against the guy seems to be that he doesn't sound like a geek, [...] 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