Archive for 'Supply Chain Management' Category
Outsourcing Reverse Logistics
6 May 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Outsourcing Reverse Logistics is a recent article posted Modern Materials Handling.com that has an interview with Tim Konrad of GENCO (my former employer) - it’s a niche for GENCO that it has been rather good at exploiting . He […]
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Building a resilient Supply Chain
5 May 2008Building a resilient supply chain is a report (freely available) published by Marsh (MMC) which focuses on supply chain risks as assessed in a free wheeling interview with a panel of six experts.
Karen Avery : National practice leader for Marsh’s Business Continuity Risk Management Practice.
Chris de Wolfe: Risk manager at Mars Incorporated, one of […]
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Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How much at what cost?
25 April 2008Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How much at what cost? is a report put together by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. (from December 2007) that takes up this issue. The full report can be accessed here. The central conclusion of this report states:
The United States could reduce greenhouse gas emissions in 2030 by 3.0 […]
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Supply Chain : Pros to know
19 March 2008SDCExec.com has published its annual list of Pros to know in its article: 2008 Supply & Demand Chain Executive Pros to Know. An exhaustive list to be sure and it should point you towards personalities as well as up and rising firms that they lead and/or represent.
Tags: SCM, Supply Chain Pros, SDCExec Annual List […]
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Supply Management Talent Crunch
14 March 2008This story is not new but like all truths, it bears repetition - again and again and again…
I came across this story via Supply Excellence, which tagged a story in WSJ (registration required) and Aberdeen (free report available until April 28, 2008 with registration),
The professors from the business and management schools of Florida State and […]
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Warming up to Sustainability
1 March 2008After a month of being deluged at work, I could do with a bit of warming - Will this Winter ever pass? I could do with a little bit of Global Warming right now. I’d settle for Local Warming too. Ahhhh Spring - How sweet thy sound? The title of this post is a little […]
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Sustainability - Solutions in search of problems
29 January 2008In the last post of this series - A brief background on Sustainability Issues, I tried to outline the various streams of thought flowing about the issue of Sustainability, specifically through the notion of Sustainable Development . I also touched upon a few metrics/indices surrounding sustainable development and linked to a number of reports from […]
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