• Events

Procurecon CPO Roundtables

11/5/2009 at 3:47 pm | mnibbeling | No Comments

02/02/2010 | London ProcureCon CPO Roundtables The UK’s Most Senior Level CPO Forum By Invitation Only ProcureCon CPO Roundtables first took place in June 2009 and was extremely well received. In June 2009 we had 7 roundtables and 73 CPO...

  • Events

Interlog

11/5/2009 at 3:43 pm | mnibbeling | No Comments

01/25/2010 - 01/27/2010 |Florida| USA Interlog Winter 2010: Create Revenue, Compete Effectively: Keep Your Aftermarket Business In Pole Position The 13th annual aftermarket supply chain event for cross-industry heavy equipment manufacturers...

  • Books

Adaptability

11/4/2009 at 10:46 pm | hjdewit | No Comments

In his book ‘Visible Cities’, the Leiden historian Leon Blussé paints a clear picture of the economic world of the 16 th, 17th and 18th centuries based on a study of three key cities: Canton in China, Nagasaki in Japan and Batavia in the Dutch...

  • Books

Success and failure

11/4/2009 at 10:39 pm | hjdewit | No Comments

With just a slight twist of fate, New York might have been called Nouveau Paris. The English sailor Henry Hudson, who sailed to America on the ship Half Moon four hundred years ago on behalf of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), was also at the time...

Invasion of American companies

11/4/2009 at 10:29 pm | hjdewit | No Comments

These days, many American companies are restructuring their European supply chains. The market has collapsed, leaving too much inventory lying around in too many locations: consolidation is the next logical step. Many of these multinationals are...

Flowers on demand

11/4/2009 at 10:22 pm | hjdewit | No Comments

In these tough economic times, FloraHolland is ready to make the strategic decision needed to maintain and even to enhance its competitive position. Due to the growth in globalisation, the traditional floriculture industry has had its day and the...

The American ‘can do’ mentality

11/4/2009 at 10:14 pm | hjdewit | No Comments

Barack Obama gave his presidential campaign a positive vibe with the typically American slogan ‘Yes we can’ – and then won with overwhelming success. It’s easy enough to use the optimism of that American cando mentality for a slogan (as in...

Another top institute to open in the Netherlands

11/4/2009 at 9:48 pm | hjdewit | No Comments

The Dutch ministers of Economic Affairs and Transport, Public Works and Water Management have announced the planned opening of the new Top Institute for Supply Chain Management, part of a Supply Chain Campus, in the municipality of Breda. [captio...

  • Reports

MIT and TruEconomy launch SCM Research Community

11/4/2009 at 9:41 pm | hjdewit | No Comments

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...

Henry Hudson

11/4/2009 at 8:02 pm | hjdewit | No Comments

In 2006, the Dutch Prime Minister, Balkenende, had to apologize publicly to Surinamese groups for saying that The Netherlands should be proud of its so-called VOC-mentality, named after the famous Dutch East India Company (VOC), a trading company...

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