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As I look forward to the holiday season (yes it is hurtling towards us again), I now do all of my planning, negotiating and actual shopping from the comfort of my armchair. And as a result, my buying habits have changed over the past few years. I no longer buy CD’s, I buy Apple iTunes [...]
From Supply Chain Standard: “Unilever has reported savings of 1.4 billion euros in 2010 through savings in supply chain costs and indirect costs – well ahead of the 1 billion euros the group was targeting at the start of the year. Chief financial officer Jean-Marc Huët said: “This comes after savings of a further 1.4bn [...]
From Harvard Business: “In the World According to Twitter, giving away access to information rewards the giver by building followers. The more followers, the more information comes to the giver to distribute, which in turn builds more followers. The process cannot be commanded or controlled; followers opt in and out as they choose. The results [...]
From Industry Week: “Manufacturers today face three significant organization-related challenges: maximizing profits, conserving cash flow and creating shareholder value. One way to solve these challenges, suggests consulting firm TMG-IMC, North America, is through the process of EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) optimization.
From ManagingAutomation.com: “How does the supply chain owner, or owners, manage the community of decision makers?” It was obvious that the software magic being applied to managing supply chains ignored this community of decision makers — the human aspect of the supply chain — in favor of highly automated processes that took as much human [...]
People are what makes organizations work or in some cases not work. How many times have the actions of one person in an organization either made you loyal to that company or swear to never do business with them again? Just as supply chain is all about getting the right product to the right place [...]
Supply Chain Management for most of the last 20 years has been all about the flow of physical products and related systems information from raw materials sources, through into manufacturing and then storage, distribution, sale, delivery and then sometimes returns as appropriate. But are there not many more opportunities for the company to benefit from [...]
