I recently came across this article which highlights a number of challenges facing Nike from a supply risk perspective in China. According to the story, Nike faces supply risk challenges including “falsified documents, underage workers and unpaid wag…
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One of the secrets to unlocking the total cost savings secrets of global sourcing is to understand where the profit margin from suppliers is coming from (hint: in China, historically it’s often come from a VAT rebate that is theoretically payable aft…
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John Campi would be proud. I’m sure that Home Depot’s smooth talking former CPO, who is now attempting to turn around a venerable automotive OEMs’ procurement, would chuckle if he read that customers are now successfully negotiating prices down in hi…
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Have you ever been in a meeting with an internal stakeholder who doesn’t want any help on their category because it’s too complex, or is the creative service that can’t be effectively sourced or managed by anybody but the supplier and that stakeholder himself? Then this story is for you…
In the Business Week article “The […]
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Knowledge @ Wharton China recently ran an interesting article that asked when are emerging markets no longer ‘emerging’?. According to the article, dozens of countries, many of which show signs of a strong and growing middle-class population, fall under the label even though they are evolving at their own pace and with their own […]
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Get offa me! Away from me! Get me outa here! Don’t follow me! Don’t bother me! I’m no leader. from “Leader” on “Essentially Naked” by Bif NakedIn his latest article (Supply Management Transformation: A Leader’s Guide), Robert Rudzki of Transformation Leadership and Greybeard Advisors notes that he likes to ask two questions when […]
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A recent Industry Week article on Implementing Supply Chain Management Solutions made a good point — the biggest factor in the collapse of supply chain management (SCM) implementations is … change — the type of change inflicted on an organization with little regard for how greatly it will impact the people and processes that serve […]
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Over on 360 Degree Vendor Management, the authors have some choice words and suggestions for keeping stakeholders and customers happy when it comes to services contracts (incidentally, if you’ve not been keeping up with this relatively new blog and y…
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Even though Bob Ferrari might not be the most creative when it comes to naming his blog, Supply Chain Matters (no relation to Spend Matters), he is already pumping out a significant amount of useful commentary. While Bob only started posting in Febru…
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In the analyst industry, we used have a saying that “when the mainstream press catches on to a trend, it is certainly almost over.” I’d like to think that is the case with the automotive supply chain dilemma, but I’m afraid I would be wrong.
While Supply Excellence has been tracking the ongoing instability and decline […]
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