... the name. “Supply chain”, he says, sounds boring. Terminology Matters “Supply chain” is a label with baggage. In some circles it is still seen as a low-tech, non-creative servant function hardly worthy of a Harvard MBA. I once had a candid conversation with a McKinsey partner who told me that they explicitly ...
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... them are the reverse of principles that have held sway for decades. Made in America First is the fact that Tesla, contrary to conventional wisdom about low-cost labour manufacturing locations, currently produces its cars in California. This flies in the face of what we see Ford planning, which is a new $1.6 ...
... investments that created the world’s biggest economy. This blindness is especially baffling when interest rates, both long and short term, are historically low and cash is so fat on corporate balance sheets that many would rather buy back shares than invest in growth. Globally, we are at greater risk of deflation ...
... like planning, sourcing and product development. Work to be done Global trade may have peaked. Future supply chains will be less dependent on distant, low-cost labour and natural resources. The race to return home is on, and the world is watching. ...
... and control immigration is right and in keeping with the wider move to supply chain accountability. Trump on taxes Whether or not it’s affordable, and low or negative interest rates suggest it might be, Trump’s tax plan could help. Personal income taxes aside, he is right to question the 35% corporate tax ...
... because we seem to have hit a turning point in the wave of globalisation. Much of the growth we’ve seen over the past few decades came in the form of low cost country manufacturing (especially in China) supporting a transportation heavy supply chain that moved raw materials, WIP and finished goods often ...
... consumers bought more clothes and employment initially rose – aka the ‘income effect’ working on elastic demand. The jobs were dangerous, scary and mostly low skilled. They also eventually started to disappear altogether as more and more tasks were taken over by machines. From the Luddites’ perspective, this ...
... suppliers By Kevin O'Marah | May 20, 2016 Recently, I’ve spent time with a number of sourcing executives who all seem to be struggling with key suppliers in low-volume, high-mix manufacturing situations. Under pressure from the “business” to reduce cost, many are finding that collaboration is a dirty word internally ...
... many supply chain leaders see the market potential of countries like Nigeria, Mexico and Indonesia as an important part of their remit rather than just low-cost country sourcing options. The global supply chain is now a two-way street, which means production assets in emerging markets serve both as supply ...