Archive for 'Supply Chain Management' Category
Book Review – The Supply-Based Advantage
22 May 2009If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!At long last, I am posting the review of this book The Supply-Based advantage by Stephen Rogers about which the author had contributed a summary some time ago. Actually, this is the second time I am writing the review […]
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Swine flu and Preparedness
28 April 2009As you very well know, Swine flu is in the news and its effect on the supply chains of the world is a foregone conclusion regardless of whether it peters out and dies or it becomes a full blown pandemic. As I’ve said numerous times on this blog, extended multi-country supply chains increase the number […]
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Webinar notes: Supply Chain Resilience for Competitive Advantage
21 April 2009I attended the Supply Chain Resilience for Competitive Advantage seminar by Professor Yossi Sheffi today. Some notes from that webinar:
Examples of disruptions that companies have faced and a firm’s reaction to them:
Disruption of the electronic supply Chain illustrated through the March 2000 Philips fire and the effect that it had on Nokia and Ericsson supply […]
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The Banking Crisis is over…
13 April 2009More quickly that it began, the Banking crisis is over screams the headline from this Time article. You might as well believe it now that the experts journalists have declared it over:
But, the great banking crisis of 2008 is over. It began last September 15 when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and bottomed when Citigroup […]
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Webinar: Supply Chain Resilience for Competitive Advantage
6 April 2009Supply Chain Resilience for Competitive Advantage is a free webinar being hosted by Professor Yossi Sheffi courtesy of Manufacturing Alumni.
The ability to bounce back from unexpected supply chain disruptions is the essence of “resilience”. Resilience can be achieved by building in redundancy (e.g., in inventories, capacity, and suppliers), but such redundancies are expensive. […]
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The financial plan?
26 March 2009The Treasury has at long last unveiled its plan to steady the battered financial sector. Who can really tell whether it will be successful but the plan itself has been battered in short order - it’s only been a few days but no one could pay me enough to be Tim Geithner’s seat right now. […]
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Supply based management in Tough times
10 March 2009Supply Based Management is a new book by Stephen Rogers that I’m reading right now - a review to follow shortly. In the meantime, I have the pleasure of posting an excerpt by the author himself about supply based management in these difficult times.
SUPPLY-BASED MANAGEMENT IN TOUGH TIMES
In today’s deep recession, customer vulnerability and […]
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