05/18/2011 at 9:39 am | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
The more companies engage in pollution prevention activities in production and in sustainable development, the better their economic performance is. The more companies pursue activities, such as switching modes of transportation or fleet...
12 PROFILE JOHN VAN DONGENTreat others as you would have them treat you: If you want to organise the supply chain properly, you have to take responsibility for the whole chain, end-to-end, says John van Dongen. This is the case at...
02/1/2011 at 10:20 am | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
Over 50% of an average corporation’s carbon emissions are typically from the supply chain rather than within its own four walls. Managing supply chain emissions is therefore critical if we are going to address climate change effectively.The Car...
12/16/2010 at 12:17 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
A vision for smarter supply chain management
Rapport van IBM Institue for Business Value, October 2010Three new supply chain management rules help counter complexity and demand variability and help restore supply chain stability:1. Know the ...
3PL issues are being extensively covered in the Supply Chain Magazine. On LinkedIn you will find a subgroup of Supply Chain Magazine dedicated to this subject. Management Articles Roundtable Facts & Figures Cases
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11/18/2010 at 4:01 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
Senior executives say their companies manage key trade-offs well, yet see barriers to better performance: rising risk, lack of collaboration, and low CEO involvement. As economies around the world step back from the financial brink and begin...
11/5/2010 at 5:11 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
According to a recent study by Accenture entitled ‘A New Era of Sustainability’, sustainability has made it to the top of almost every CEOs agenda. The study was carried out among 766 CEOs the world over. However, there appears to be a difference...
10/18/2010 at 4:08 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
Business Continuity Management is proving to be an effective technique to better understand supply chain dependencies and develop a robust strategy to deal with disruption. BCM provides a practical and proven methodology to ensure an organization’s...
09/1/2010 at 3:02 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
The function of supply chain management is now represented at board level within over two thirds of all companies. The two factors that most significantly impact the supply chain are customers and costs.Although there is no concrete data to compa...
06/2/2010 at 2:35 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
“The oil price is not likely to increase between now and 2030 in the order of magnitude that it poses a threat to conventional means of transport,” predicted Dr. Michael Linz from the Supply Chain Management Institute in Wiesbaden (Germany) on 1...