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Category: Best Practices
5 Tips for Managing a Global Supply Chain
Shipping and selling abroad is not the most monumental task in the world, but shipping and selling abroad with the same level of efficiency seen at home is another matter. Nicole Carter at Inc.com points to Edible Arrangements, which manages to offer nearly all the same options to customers in Italy and Turkey that it [...]
Ensuring a Worry-Free ERP Implementation
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is often viewed as inflexible, one-size-fits-all, and stagnant (or, if upgradeable, expensive). This article by Deborah Catalano discusses 10 tips from David F. Ross, senior manager at APICS. As Mr. Ross suggests, it comes down to researching your options for ERP vendors and implementation, including the importance of individual tailoring: Because [...]
Logistics Management Technology Roundtable
In this article by Michael Levans, a roundtable of five of the leading technology analysts discuss ERP, business analytics, and how social media are helping capture and optimize supply chain visibility. One of the first questions goes to Jerry O’Dwyer who defines business analytics: We define “business analytics” as the practice of using data to [...]
FedEx meets emissions target seven years early
Supply chains are trying desperately to cope with rising fuel costs, emissions regulation, and public opinion about the use of renewable energy resources. FedEx, being a prime example of a company dependent and affected by the cost and availability of fuels and the public’s concern for emissions, took this challenge to heart. And now, after [...]
Scorecarding: 6 behaviors to avoid
Scorecarding can be a remarkably effective tool ““ but just like any other tool, it can be misused or misunderstood. In the worst cases it can cause more work and confusion than nothing at all. This article from Supply Chain Brain looks at six behaviors that people can fall into when utilizing 3PL Scorecarding. Something [...]
Have a challenging Supply Chain? Collaborate!
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) have a very rigid, very pressurized supply chain – more so than perhaps any other sort of supply chain around. As this article by Dave Blanchard explains, the demands of end users (retailers and purchasing consumers alike) dictate rapid turnaround with the highest quality assurances. With these restrictions and parameters, it’s [...]
Wal-Mart to Initiate Audits of U.S. Third-Party Distribution Facilities
Your own business operations might be squeaky-clean, but that doesn’t mean you’ll escape the damage caused by labor violations or the economic impact that bad press will bring. In today’s business world, consumers don’t just look at the small piece your company plays in the overall manufacturing and selling of a product – they look [...]
Building Resilience in Supply Chains
This report provided by Commodities Now and authored by the World Economic Forum looks at how to build resilience in supply chains. In short, it has become increasingly important to assure that the foundations of the global economy—the global supply chain—is strong enough to deal with the vulnerabilities that have, in the past, caused tremendous [...]
Creating a Dynamic, Demand-Driven Supply Chain
Every supply chain has its own unique challenges, but none so much as the automotive industry, perhaps. As Thad Zylka states, the auto industry has experienced immense disruptions from territorial disputes in Asia as well as natural disasters which have affected that area as well. If you put these disasters alongside the trouble that the [...]
Businesses Increasingly Rationalize Supply Chain Sustainability
If long term gains are your goal, sustainability is the way to get there. Al Bredenberg details in an article that companies want to shape things and get in front of regulations instead of waiting and working around them. Bredenberg also asks Bruce Tompkins, the executive director of the Supply Chain Consortium, what advice he [...]
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