... product development times aim to develop products lasting for many years. Solid factories mass produce for a market open to undifferentiated, standard products. This traditional supply chain foundation clashes with the reality of today’s fast-paced marketplace, and for many companies strength and solidity have ...
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... of age. Great hand-wringing persists among supply chain professionals about how to engage, recruit, motivate and retain young people. Companies that excel at this, like Under Armour, specifically design career paths and recruiting messages to match the profiles of this group. Millennials’ apparent comfort ...
... Chairman of the Board of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals and author of a widely read Harvard Business Review article entitled “Are you the weakest link in your supply chain?” It would be easy for these academics to sit in their ivory tower and preach. They don’t. In fact, research ...
... Saying no to the occasional crazy request could be the beginning of getting things back on track. Pick your battles Some supply chain professionals may choke on the word “no”. A subtler approach could be to say: “yes, but…” In practice, this means using segmentation strategies to guide customers to the supply ...
... contribute meaningfully to the global healthcare sector. Medical services sold or traded to customers in the Amazon, sub-Saharan Africa and Central America are in fact the second biggest export earner after tourism in Cuba. Add the large number of trained medical professionals working domestically and ...
... management is a core topic for the SCM World community. One question we’ve asked repeatedly focuses on university hires. The phrasing is intentionally broad to allow respondents freedom to cite preferred universities, whether or not offer formal supply chain degrees are offered. Many have historically ...
... consistently higher degrees of engagement and influence among professionals who are part of the idea-generation process rather than errand boys for brand management or R&D. In companies with powerful supply chain voices, it is far more common to see integrated product and process design, collaborative supplier ...
... all learning how to price and buy such digitised products on our smartphones and set-top boxes. The tide will not be reversed. Supply chain and taxes Which brings me back to taxes and global trade. In mid-2013 we surveyed 114 supply chain professionalsto understand their approach to global trade management ...
... smart train on a 200-mile per hour ride from Rome to Naples and seen huge documented savings on maintenance as well as higher availability and reliability in use. It is ready now. In fact, across all industries the majority of supply chain professionals surveyed believe IoT is a disruptive and important ...