... for robotics to explode. In fact, companies like Foxconn have spent several years developing and installing thousands of industrial robots. In 2015, China bought more industrial robots than all of Europe. Even faster growth was seen in Mexico, which nearly doubled units bought compared to 2014. The robotics ...
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... Your Roadmap to a Digital Supply Chain By Kevin O'Marah | July 14, 2017 This week SCM World hosted 100 C-level supply chain executives in London for our 7th annual Leaders Forum. Our theme, “Mastering the Matrix”, was all about empowering supply chain professionalsto take point on developing the roadmap ...
... I think so. To spark the debate and cast a much wider net, we at SCM World are committed to providing a single global ranking of universities that employers believe are the best place to find these kids. The ranking is extremely simple, requiring working supply chain professionals only to name their top ...
... dimensions, including an off-the-charts low reliability score (2.09 on a 1 to 5 scale where 5 is excellent and 1 is poor). In 2014, we asked survey respondents to name the top three countries their companies consider “too risky to operate in”. Russia came fourth on this list just ahead of Syria and behind ...
... Top 25: Leaders in Learning By Kevin O'Marah | January 31, 2014 We are about to publish a short report ranking both the universities that teach supply chain to kids and the associations that train and certify professionals. The methodology is as simple as pie: supply chain practitioners were surveyed ...
... tech companies say they have fully implemented social and environmental responsibility initiatives with key suppliers. Compare this to healthcare and pharmaceuticals where only 9% have made such moves. This gap is too large. 31% declare sales an “essential” skill for supply chain professionals. This ...
... clearly and ominously rising everywhere on earth? Foreign Policy magazine lists its top ten conflicts to watch in 2017. In addition to some like Afghanistan and Yemen, which are not important to most companies’ supply networks, the list includes Mexico and Turkey, both of which are important. For supply chain ...
... effect over time. For most procurement people, this means a constant struggleto resist top-down pressure to cut costs the easy way – by punishing suppliers. VW is in an epic bind, but it’s still a giant company with plenty of business to attract the attention of suppliers. Prevent took a hit for everyone ...
... all about efficiency, which makes tons of sense to businesspeople, and to supply chain professionals, in particular. Taxing carbon, according to Holman Jenkins at the WSJ, “is better than taxing work and investment,” while business leaders, according to Michael Bloomberg and Jerry Brown in the Times, ...