Supply Chain Magazine: “How did you come up with the title ‘Operations Rules’ for your new book?” David Simchi-Levi: “The title of my book can be explained in two ways: Most companies concentrate on mergers, acquisitions, finance and cus...

“Everybody is on a continuous improvement journey. I’ve never heard of a company that hopes to get any worse, but there are plenty of companies who do the right thing at the wrong time.” This is how Dave Manning, consultant at Oliver Wight,...

Companies will increasingly face questions about the sustainable nature of their suppliers’ supply chains – so says Randall Krantz from the World Economic Forum during the Sustainable Supply Chains congress organised jointly by TruEconomy...

Does wealth improve life expectancy? Not by definition, explains Prashant Yadav, professor of supply chain management and advocate for the MIT-Zaragossa International Logistics Program, at the Sustainable Supply Chains conference on 2nd June in Grand...

The American First Lady, Michelle Obama, has hailed food manufacturers in the USA for agreeing to remove no less than 1.5 trillion calories from their products, as a boost to the campaign against obesity. On 17th May, she announced that sixteen...

Shortly after attending a congress in Vancouver, prof.dr.ir. Jo van Nunen passed away unexpectedly.  Van Nunen had been involved with the Erasmus University in Rotterdam for more than thirty years, and was a very popular person in the logistics and...

Professor of Operations Research at INSEAD As yet still relatively unknown, Enver Yücesan focuses on tactical, operational problems such as process analysis and manufacturing planning. In addition, he is a specialist in computer simulations, with...

Adjunct Professor MIT Zaragoza            Mitchell Tseng is internationally renowned for his work in mass customization and global manufacturing. Since his inauguration in 2001, Tseng has been co-chairman of the International Mass Custo...

University of Cologne    Ulrich Thonemann has extensive experience in analysing and addressing key factors in supply chain transformation, and is a regular speaker at industry congresses. As an assistant professor at Stanford University in the ...