10/21/2011 at 11:31 am | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
What is the company behaviour to risk and danger? Natural disasters in last years have made companies more and more aware of supply chain risks. The earthquake and the following tsunami in Japan made clear where risks of supply of components...
09/27/2011 at 10:24 am | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
The new European quarterly magazine Supply Chain Movement published a free special about Inventory Optimization. This edition features insightful articles and international case studies about inventory management in order to reduce working capital.
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09/5/2011 at 5:06 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
Japan’s devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident have served as a wake-up call across the world to show just how fragile global supply can be. With almost 9% of the world’s economic output coming from Japan, these events have had a...
08/3/2011 at 2:24 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
What are the best Movies and TV Series about supply chains? And why? What is the connection with supply chains? And in which Movies and TV Series is the development of logistics into supply chain management perfectly reflected?
According to the ed...
07/1/2011 at 3:11 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
While innovation and sustainability have of course both been around as long as time itself, they appear to be the hottest topics in the business world at the moment. In the aftermath of the recent and unparalleled financial crisis, countless...
07/1/2011 at 2:14 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
As a professor in maintenance and reliability at Eindhoven University, I often find myself reflecting on the developments in service logistics. Service logistics covers all the activities needed to keep technical systems up and running. It is about...
03/28/2011 at 9:01 am | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
Implementing Integrated Business Planning (IBP) processes may challenge many existing values and behaviours in a company. For IBP to be effective a set of values is required. Some important ones are:
1. Group thinking: take a holistic business vie...
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...
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...
10/13/2010 at 4:46 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
Companies in the supply chain are becoming more and more dependent on third parties. They outsource more and more production to contract companies. At Apple, it has gone so far that the entire supply chain has been outsourced to Foxconn of Taiwan....