Supply Chain Management Review - September 1, 2008

Uncertain economic times can bring great opportunity. For supply chain professionals, that opportunity lies in applying economic logic to global supply chain design and operation—or thinking like a global economist. Here's a guide to what the supply chain manager can do and how to make it happen.

• Commentary
• Global Links
• A Case for Offshoring Procurement Outsourcing?
• Insights
• A “Flat” Future? Don't Bet on It
• Profiles in Leadership
• Consultant Turned Practitioner Robert Silverman
• Spotlight on Supply Management
• Buying in a Sellers' Market
• Technology
• Span of Control Key to Talent Development

• Features
• The 2008 Global CPO Survey
• Coming to Grips with supplier Risk
• How IBM Put Bratislava on the Supply Chain Map
• Will sourcing come closer to home?

• Supplement
• Special Advertising Supplement
• Supply Chain Software and Technology: The Status and the Future