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5 things failure teaches leaders
Glen Llopis isn’t scared of failure. Failure is something that new leaders fear – it’s something that they try hard to escape, panic during, and try not to talk about afterward. Llopis looks at failure in a different light, however, as someone who has seen the benefits that failure can bring. He explains, for instance, [...]
Fuel Expenses May Generate Supply Chain Concerns
For a 7th week, diesel has cost more according to the department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration. The EIA indicated that, prior to this increase, the cost of diesel was dropping for 12 weeks, resulting in a fall of about fifty cents. While fuel cost is always a concern of supply chains throughout the world, [...]
10 Best Supply Chain Management Programs: The World Rankings
With a mix of previous research rankings and Google, this article on SCM Operations provides a list of the top 10 supply chain management programs in the world. The ranking method was straightforward: using Gartner’s 2011 research on North American supply chain programs, alongside Maloni and the U.S. News Graduate Program Ranking, the researchers then [...]
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 [...]
Sound Reasoning on Supply Chain Infrastructure
This article from Supply Chain management looks at the highways, airports, and seaways from an infrastructure and government standpoint. Executive editor Patrick Burnson explains how the current deficit and growing debt of America are “impacting the nation’s ability to build, upgrade and maintain transportation infrastructure.” Citing Robert Poole, director of transportation at Reason Foundation, the [...]
Is Your Risk Management Program Itself a Source of Risk?
If nearly half of senior executives believe their supply chain risk management programs are insufficient or ineffective, why isn’t more being done to change this? Dave Blanchard of Industry Week argues that in many supply chain cases, risk management itself may be its own source of risk. It may be another case of false security. [...]
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 [...]
Is Your Supply Chain Ready for Mach 6?
What if you could get your shipment from Tokyo to Paris in just a touch over 2 hours? Could you imagine how remarkably changed the world of supply chain management would be? With the hypersonic jet Waverider, this possibility is becoming closer and closer to reality. While still early in development, hypersonic jets could fundamentally [...]
Railroads Are Back in Style for Freight Transportation
Railroads were one of the major factors in shaping the ability of the United States to expand and prosper. They were hailed in the Wild West as something that brought culture, supplies, and the law into distant territories. They have been playing a perpetually smaller role in the economy from the past to now—but railroads [...]
Will immigration have an impact on the supply chain?
Jeff Berman doesn’t see the US illegal immigrant question as a problem – he sees it as an opportunity! While legislators argue over how to apply law and practice, Berman is looking at what hidden possibilities could open up if roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants became U.S. citizens. For starters, He imagines those new U.S. [...]
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