I’ve been promoted! Having chaired the well-received congress that we organised, Supply Chain in One Day, twice Iast year, I will be speaking as closing key note speaker at two different events within the space of a week this year, at a partner...
January 2010’s loser of the month: Cisco
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The economy and customer confidence picks up and the supplier is caught off guard. That is what happened to Cisco Systems, specialist in networking technologies. Now that the economy is improving, companies are starting to invest more in IT and the...
Working capital reduction
| |Companies increasingly need to focus on Working Capital to improve their liquidity. Do they also improve shareholder value?Cash is back as KingIn the face of today’s unprecedented credit crunch, companies must do everything they can to free up Working Capital. Even businesses that appear to be in good shape may not be immune to the do...
Top 5 links Zara case study
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The Zara case study is one of the best know cases in supply chain education related to retail supply chain planning. Topics in this case are sourcing, outsourcing, production planning and control, lead-times, information management and more… ...
Supply Chain Management and the Executive Agenda
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and supply chain consultancy firm TruEconomy have launched a research community to bring together business professionals and academics to develop ideas, practical principles and critical thinking in the...
Pain is temporary
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We have seen the economy shift with excessive speed from a bull market to a bear market. But is this an issue in itself? Not really. The fundamental layer of our economic system has never before been as strong as it is today. Irrational behavior in...
Necessary but not sufficient
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A great deal has been published about Baan Company, in many different media. The best-known book is the one by Mark Houben and Jeroen Wester of the Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad, which gives an illuminating overview of the issues with Baan....
Account management in the Supply Chain
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A book about customer-oriented collaboration in the Supply Chain sounds very promising, like an inspiring subject. For a long time, major multinationals in particular focused on chain control of internal collaborations with sister and parent...
The Next 100 years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
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The American political scientist and forecaster George Friedman, author of ‘The Next 100 Years’, predicts that China will not overtake the US in terms of dominating international affairs. Although currently perceived as the nation most likely to...
Strategies and tactics in supply chain event management
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The authors of 'Strategies and tactics in supply chain event management' have bundled a number of articles about theories, methods and tools for dealing with various disruptions in the supply chain. The book is mainly intended for supply chain...
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Dossier Sustainability, Reverse Logistics & Cradle to Cradle
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