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Yum Brand Faces IT Supply Chain Hurdles In China Expansion
Dealing with supply chains is difficult enough as it is without throwing the fear of contaminated or mislabeled products into the mix. Companies wanting to expand must be cautious of how the increasing demand for their product is affecting the product itself, and few organizations understand this better than Yum Brands Inc. According to Joel [...]
DHL Reengineers Automotive Supply Chain Management
In managing a global supply chain, maintaining a high level of customer service becomes an ongoing challenge. Customers need to be able to get fast, accurate answers to their inquiries, but knowing where to go for those answers can sometimes be a headache in itself. DHL Global Forwarding, based out of Bonn, Germany, has reengineered [...]
Balancing Resilience and Growth Within the Supply Chain
These days, it is becoming increasingly important for supply chains to show a certain amount of visibility when it comes to their levels of social responsibility. Supply chains must be resilient as well as socially responsible while dealing with unstable energy prices and market changes. Leon Kaye, Triple Pundit contributor and founder and editor of [...]
Building Supply Chain Resilience
Disasters can teach us many things when viewed through the lens supply chain management. This became painfully obvious is 2011 when the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami and later the flooding in Thailand disrupted supply chain across the globe. Companies lost billions upon billions of dollars when these disasters occurred, but they gained a better understanding [...]
Moving Beyond “Minimally Acceptable” Sustainable Supply Chains
In the business world, no one wants to be known as “sort of okay.” You want to be great. You want to strive for the best. Supply chain should have the same mindset. Today, everyone is “going green.” Supply chain especially is feeling the push toward greater sustainability. According to an article from NC State [...]
Supply Chain Management Cost Cutting: Smart Decisions
These days, everyone is looking to cut costs. This is especially true in the world of supply chain management. Too often people try to cut costs quickly. This can lead to poor choices that can be extremely detrimental in the long run. An article from Oxford Business Technology Blog highlights the importance of being able [...]
Why the Supply Chain is Dead
The term “supply chain” shouldn’t be used anymore—and in its place, the term “network” can be used. In an article featured on Forbes.com, Christopher Koch explains how the term supply chain is simply outdated and conjures up the wrong imagery. For example: “supply” implies a physical item, and chain implies something that can’t be flexible or move [...]
Four Experts Sound Off on the Control Tower Approach to Supply Chain Management
The control tower concept may prove to be a way for companies to eliminate the functional silos that currently exist in supply chains. By utilizing and end-to-end integration for supply chain management, it is possible to optimize and utilize elements within an organization across the entirety of the supply chain itself, creating an opportunity which [...]
Basic Tips on Supply Chain Management
It never hurts to brush up on the essentials. If you want to refresh yourself on some of the basics, then consult an article at Six Sigma Online that outlines five stages to supply chain management: Planning process Choosing suppliers of raw materials Manufacturing Delivery Return The first stage is where you plan to manage [...]
New USC Program to Fill Supply Chain Talent Gap
Where there are gaps, there are opportunities. It is estimated that over the next five to ten years, roughly 200,000 supply chain management jobs will go unfulfilled because of a lack of trained professionals. The USC Marshall School of Business is stepping in to do something about that, launching an online master’s degree program in [...]
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