On the third day of X-Mas my blogger gave to me tri-focal lens, two boxing gloves and a lesson in strategy. When coming up with a good strategy for your supply chain, one of the very first things you need to understand is that there will always be three […]
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World Trade Magazine recently ran an article on customized solutions offered by logistics providers and 3PLs where it asked thirteen different experts how they would meet the logistics needs described in a ‘hypothetical case study’ for a leading developer or electronics. I think that this is one of the most interesting articles that […]
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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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I recently discovered an archived “expert insight” on SupplyChainDigest from last summer on “Transportunities: What Kind of Results Can You Expect from Carrier Bid Optimization Projects” that was pretty good, but lacked advice on the right way to go about the more technical aspects of the project.The article, which noted that savings in the 5% […]
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Manufacturing & Logistics IT recently ran an article on The 10 Fallacies of Logistics Productivity Management that noted that productivity management often represents the lowest hanging fruit for companies interested in reducing supply chain costs. It also noted that the failure to implement advanced productivity management systems may be related to a number of […]
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the doctor recently stumbled on an article titled Globalization - Risk and Opportunity for Mid-Sized Distributors, and was quite disappointed. Even though the article suggests that there are lots of opportunities for mid-sized distributors who are flexible, transparent, collaborative, and customer-focussed, it asks more questions than it gives answers. This leaves one the […]
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Recently, Supply and Demand Executive published an article called The Three Things You Need to Get Right in Your Extended Value Chain by Steve Mehltretter and Vadim Kapsutin which suggested that there are only three critical operational resources that businesses need to balance and get “right” in order to succeed: capacity […]
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Roll on highway, roll on along Roll on daddy till you get back home Roll on family, roll on crew Roll on momma like I asked you to do And roll on eighteen-wheeler, roll on (roll on) Alabama, Roll On Whether or not you like country music (as a general rule, […]
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