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It looks like my predictions that the China craze may soon be coming to an end, first expressed in mid-2006 when I asked if low cost country sourcing to China was really innovative, are coming true. Consider this recent Slate article that points out how we’re now in the last days of cheap chinese [...]
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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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Industry week recently ran an article on how to recession proof your business by three authors that had a rather interesting take on how you go about this. According to the article, you start by identifying the tribes that constitute your business and determining where they are in their sociological progression. If they [...]
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For those of you who haven’t noticed, Jason Busch over on Spend Matters has found a new cause - Anti-Dumping Fever. (Much better than the China Fever he had last summer and fall.) And I have to agree with him this time … but what’s really peaked my attention is how fast the [...]
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In part I, we reviewed Supply Chain Digest’s 2007 Supply Chain Year in Review article, where they picked their top ten news stories for 2007. In Part II we reviewed Supply Chain Digest’s Key Trends Impacting Supply Chain Management and Logistics for 2008, as identified by the nine executives and academics they asked [...]
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In part I, we reviewed Supply Chain Digest’s 2007 Supply Chain Year in Review article, where they picked their top ten news stories for 2007. In Part II we reviewed Supply Chain Digest’s Key Trends Impacting Supply Chain Management and Logistics for 2008, as identified by the nine executives and academics they asked [...]
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In part I, we reviewed Supply Chain Digest’s 2007 Supply Chain Year in Review article, where they picked their top ten news stories for 2007. Then, yesterday, we reviewed Supply Chain Digest’s Key Trends Impacting Supply Chain Management and Logistics for 2008, as identified by the nine executives and academics they asked to [...]
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Less then two weeks after Supply Chain Digest ran their 2007 Supply Chain Year in Review, that was summarized in Part I, in an attempt to answer their question, Supply Chain Digest asked seven “thought” leaders, which is their terminology for executives and academics - as there was not a single blogger in the group, [...]
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Supply Chain Digest recently ran their 2007 Supply Chain Year in Review where they identified what they believed the top ten stories of 2007 were. In their opinion, the top ten list is as follows: Mattel Toy Recall Fiasco Mattel had to recall millions and millions [...]
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As the doctor mentioned in his last post, there are a lot of elephants hiding in the sourcing and procurement war room! There are so many, in fact, that the doctor is having problems figuring out how they all fit! However, as the doctor was in-depth scanning and reviewing some vendor web sites [...]
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