Archive for 'Supply Chain News' Category
A decade in Supply Chain Timeline
26 January 2010SC Digest has a recent article: A decade in Supply Chain Timeline illustrating a decade in the supply chain timeline. What astonishes me about the decade is how quickly the mighty have fallen. Or rather how quickly some of the no-brainer trends seem to go quite limp.
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Carbon Emission Caps and Leverage
20 July 2009This is a story coming out of India - out of US Sec of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to India : India to Resist U.S. Pressure on Carbon Emission Caps.
India will resist pressure from the Obama administration to accept legally binding caps on its carbon emissions, the South Asian nation’s environment minister told visiting Secretary […]
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Cow manure is Green and Walmart has me “Cowabunga”!!
16 July 2009Just who is buying this bullshit is another story. I am not one to use profanity lightly but the profane doesn’t do this latest piece of ludicrousness any justice. What drove me batty is this news item from Walmart: Wal-Mart exec foresees eco-ratings for all.
Among the many firms of this world, Walmart is perhaps one […]
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GM should be bankrupt. Nevermind, it will be…
30 December 2008I was just re-reading my earlier post on What is Credit? when this piece of managerial brilliance crossed my desk - GMAC Adds Loans as U.S. Injects $6 Billion to Aid GM. Who else but GM could one depend on to provide a consistent farce?
There is little doubt in my mind that this company ought […]
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JDA acquires i2
15 August 2008JDA is all set to acquire i2 Technologies for approximately USD $346 million - the huger for scale is relentless, it seems but whether or not it succeeds is a different matter altogether.
“By acquiring i2 we double our addressable market in manufacturing to include discrete manufacturing, complementing our current market leadership in process manufacturing […]
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The news of my day is…
28 July 2008The news of my morning is …
IBM and ILOG today announced they have signed an agreement regarding a proposed acquisition by IBM of ILOG to be implemented by way of concurrent cash public tender offers in both France and the United States. Through this proposed transaction, IBM will combine its business process management (BPM), business […]
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Supply Chain Risk Management Event
23 July 2008Kate Marston sent me an email about an event that she’s doing some research about/helping organize. I think that the event would be a good one to attend for SCM professionals. From the SCRM 2008 website:
The Supply Chain Risk Management Summit 2008 (SCRM 2008) is the conference and networking event that will highlight once again […]
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