Another enlightening presenter at last week’s Spend Management Day in Seattle – which by the way was at the Edgewater Hotel of Beatles fame and Led Zeppelin infamy – was Erik Rupinski from MeadWestvaco’s Supply Chain Solutions group.
Like many companies, MeadWestvaco (MWV) is global in terms of their supply chain, acquisition strategy and sales. Some [...]
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[Wakko, Yakko, & Dot] We are the sourcing-maniacs And we’re zany to the max So just sit back and relax You’ll laugh ’til [...]
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I recently stumbled upon a Supply Chain Digest article from earlier this year that purpoted to tell us that a Siemens Global Move Points to the Supply Chain Future, in reference to Siemens’ increasing focus on selling new, lower price versions of its products in developing nations, and of manufacturing these close to those markets. [...]
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According to a recent CNet Article, companies seeking to establish solar power farms, especially near protected wildlife areas, face a long, byzantine, government permit process. However, there are a large number of ideal locations for solar power farms in the south-western US which include 15 million locations contaminated by toxic waste.The Environmental Agency, which has [...]
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The electronic world can only get so far on automation, as I was reminded yesterday at the Seattle Spend Management Day. Brian Jones, Purchasing Operations guru at Nestle, discussed the opportunities, process and results from their efforts to categorize spend in order to identify low hanging procurement fruit and drive ongoing spend management initiatives across [...]
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A month or so ago, on a busy day, I came across this ZDNet article on the Top 5 issues your IT staff wants to address but is afraid to tell you that I think everyone should read — twice — before embarking on any system modernization that will require the involvement of IT. [...]
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Despite the economic turmoil, people still need to eat. And when times are tough, they’re naturally going to eat out less, cook more meals at home and even brown bag some lunches. So, you would assume that provides opportunity for supermarkets, but that might not always be the case.
Last week Safeway announced they had increased [...]
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With greater supply chain instability, driven mostly by the soaring price of oil, but exacerbated by the rush to outsource manufacturing, comes a growing need for leaner, meaner, inventory management, as pointed out in a recent Supply Chain Brain / Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies article that was taking another look at inventory planning [...]
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In a blog post last Friday, Jason Busch brought up an interesting twist on the credit crisis…namely the ability of businesses to pass along increased supply chain costs to the end customer in an environment of tightening belts and lowered spending. He cites a story out of the UK where Marks & Spencer and [...]
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I recently came across an article in Chief Executive titled opportunities for SMEs in the downturn, which I thought would be a good read. I don’t know if it was good, but I was shocked by what I read. Although everything the author said was true, I was shocked at how the entire [...]
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