• Reports

Supply Chain Resilience 2010

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...

To the buttons

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....

Pain is temporary

11/4/2009 at 6:12 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

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...

  • Books

Account management in the Supply Chain

10/29/2009 at 11:38 am | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

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...

  • Books

Strategies and tactics in supply chain event management

09/11/2009 at 2:00 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

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...

  • Books

Measuring the Value of the Supply Chain

09/11/2009 at 1:56 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

Enrico Camerinelli, senior analyst at the Celent Banking Group, has recorded his experiences with the financial supply chain in a book.  He describes the bridge between the supply chain manager and the CFO as being threefold: 1) it is hard to...

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Dynamic supply chain alignment

08/15/2009 at 1:43 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

Ten years after 'Strategic supply chain alignment', John Gattorna provides a new business model for the supply chains of 21st century companies. In 'Dynamic supply chain alignment', he explains how multiple supply chains can be established and...

  • Books

The Contract Scorecard

08/11/2009 at 1:46 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

With 'The contract scorecard', author Sara Cullen guides her reader, step by step, through the various elements of an outsourcing contract. The ‘contract scorecard’ consists of four quadrants: quality, finance, relationship and strategy. Cullen...

  • Books

Supply Chain Analysis

05/15/2008 at 12:51 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

Academic research results in the field of supply chain management were often obtained from ideal circumstances with generic conditions. Supply chain professionals, on the other hand, developed cost-effective strategies on the basis of local and...

  • Books

cradle to cradle

03/15/2008 at 12:42 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

‘From grain to drink’ and ‘from sand to customer’ are familiar slogans in the total overview of a supply chain that certainly appeals to the imagination. Architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart are now introducing the...