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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Managing the effectiveness and value of the supply chain has become a top priority. Supply chain management focuses on aligning people, processes, information, and technology to a common set of goals and objectives across the supply chain of products and services to meet the needs of all industries, companies will drive increased profitability and efficiency.
This topic covers how all businesses can all benefit from improving their supply chain processes.
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The Six Traits of Leading Supply Chainsmore

What is it that sets apart leading supply chains that outperforms others both financially and operationally? PwC...

Truth, Lies, and Statistical Modeling in Supply Chains – Part 3more

As discussed in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, systems rarely exhibit variability that follows a Normal...

Supply Chain Disruption Alert- Hong Kong Port Strike Drags Onmore

Already in 2013, Supply Chain Matters has noted a number of supply chain disruptions that have challenged procurement...

More News on Apple Portends a New Phase of Strategic Supply Chain Chal...more

Today, The Wall Street Journal reported what social media and the Internet has been buzzing for weeks, namely that...

Visibility, Agility, and Alignment - 3 capabilities powering the moder...more

Over the last 20 years there has been a huge shift in Operations toward outsourcing, lead primarily by...

Increased Concerns for Information Security and IP Protection Concerni...more

This weekend, The Financial Times reported (paid subscription required or free metered view) a significant finding, one...

7 Steps to Drive Business Agility with Process Visibilitymore

The Titantic didn’t sink because it hit an unseen iceberg, according to Dave Brooks, a supply chain expert consultant...

Upcoming Appearances for Bob Ferrari in April 2013more

As the calendar quickly transitions into April, we wanted to call reader attention to upcoming appearances by Bob...

Fonterra- The Next Chapter in Turning Supply Chain Risk Into Opportuni...more

One of our very first series of commentaries in 2008, the year of the founding of Supply Chain Matters, related to the...

B2B Automation is #1 Remedy For Reducing Supply-Chain Flabmore

Supply chain experts say companies will be revamping supply chains to reduce costs, improve profits and, in some...

Supply Shifts Involving the Fallout of Apple and Samsung More Evidentmore

In a Supply Chain Matters commentary published In late August 2012, we noted that, in the light of the contentious...

Russia and China Ink Significant Energy Supply Agreementsmore

Earlier this month, Supply Chain Matters noted that China had assumed the role of the world’s largest importer of oil.

Wal-Mart Going the Home Depot Way?more

The Home Depot started in 1979 with their first store in Atlanta. Within seven years in 1986, it hit the $1...

How Do Organizations Align Functions? A Supply Chain Alignment Questio...more

Have you ever wondered, 'How do organizations align functions? We have! So, we wanted to share the opportunity to...

Continued Stark Reminders of the Existence of Supply Chain Riskmore

Late last night, while monitoring Twitter, we picked-up on breaking news “tweets” reporting that a major 6.

Does Technology Selection Need Yet Another Assessment and Evaluation M...more

Research firm Horses for Sources recently introduced its HfS Blueprint methodology for business process outsourcing...

Alarming Reports Linking Incidents of Cybercrime to Increased Outsourc...more

A report published on the front page in the Companies section of yesterday’s edition of The Financial Times (paid...

What’s Up With Oracle?- Depth, Execution and Timetable of Cloud Offeri...more

The headline for Oracle last week was that growth had stalled after the enterprise technology provider reported that...

How to Avoid a $1.5 Billion Supply Chain Management Mistakemore

It’s a supply chain nightmare: £1 billion — the equivalent of $1.5 billion or 9.4 billion Yuon — spent on an inventory...

A Week of Two High Profile Supply Chain Snafus- Commentary Twomore

This has been a week that business media has featured two high profiled supplier related snafu’s, or at least, that has...

A Week of Two High Profile Supply Chain Snafus- Commentary Onemore

This has been a week that business media has featured two high profiled supplier related snafu’s, or at least, that has...

Supply Chain Segmentation Requires B2B Integration and Process Automat...more

Supply chain segmentation is not a new concept, but it is becoming more relevant as supply-chains become more diverse.

5 Critical Supply Chain Competency Improvements Needed in the Automoti...more

The 11th annual Automotive Logistics Europe conference was held in in Bonn, Germany last week for two days of intense...

A Radically Changed International Air Freight Environment Prompts a Fe...more

Supply Chain Matters has been keeping a close eye on global airfreight carriers FedEx and UPS to ascertain the degree...

Announced Deal Has Major Impact on Global Generic Pharmaceutical Drug ...more

There was significant news this week related to generic pharmaceutical drug distribution, one directly related to...

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