
Sean is an experienced reporter and feature writer, having worked on newspapers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He has won numerous accolades for his work, including awards from the New England Press Association and the New Hampshire Press Association. Sean studied under the journalism program at Northeastern University in Boston.
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SAPPHIRE Wrap-up
May 12, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)
Last week I attended SAPPHIRE 2008 in Orlando, Fla. This is easily one of the largest events I've seen yet. Conservative estimates had attendance at 15,000, but whispers in the Orange County Convention Center say it could have been higher than 18,000.
After about 10,000, I stop counting and pray I'm not run over by the crowd. The event had all the trappings one might expect from a company the size of SAP, including a networking cocktail reception for press and analysts at a luxury car club and an Eric Clapton concert.
The daytime events were interesting. As usual, the show floor was packed with participants, some with "booths" that were so large they can only be described as "sprawling." The theme this year was "business without boundaries." SAP, for its part, was trying to reinforce this concept with a service i...Read More
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Supply Chain Management and Eating Right
April 25, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)
Well, ok, my zeal for pretty much anything with peanut butter in/on it is nobody's fault but my own, but everyone has noticed lately the price of fresh produce, milk, and other perishables has gone up. Clearly, rising fuel costs are the primary factor to blame for it, but it also serves as a reminder that it's not just the flabby people among us who are inclined to taking the quick, cheap, most pleasant way out.
And can you blame the corporations? In some ways, especially factoring in higher fuel costs, it costs a whole lot more to get fresh fruits and vegetables, many of which come from South America, into this country in a hurry. Waste too much time, and your product rots on the dock....Read More
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It's Not Easy Being Green -- Sometimes
April 15, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)
Needless to say, US air carriers are unhappy. Hmm, Wal-Mart bullying the Chinese, the EU bullying the airlines, I wonder if this is what Al Gore had in mind?
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Wal-Mart to Sell Green to China, but Not Everyone's Buying
April 14, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)
It seems China is feeling the heat from greener pastures, so to speak, according to the Vietnam Supply Chain Council.
American companies are under growing pressure, both from environmentalists and from their own interest to find innovative ways to boost profits, to seek out "greener" ways to do business.
Since another trend has pushed American companies, and companies everywhere else, for that matter, to outsource to China, it only follows that the pressure to "go green" would migrate to the Far East.
One sign that it has is this article from the council. Citing Reuters reports, the council says Wal-Mart is once again taking a "tough love" approach, this time with its Chinese suppliers, and this time to enforce Lee Scott's mandate to green up the co...Read More
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One Consultant's View on Supply Chain Education
April 2, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (4)
One topic that came up was an online survey conducted by a committee of corporations and AMR Research that is attempting to determine, among other things, where the college graduates with the best supply chain management skills were coming from.
One executive I spoke to at the time said he and his company were interested in the study because they were tired of hiring people who didn't seem to have the requisite supply chain skills.
Sievers was careful not to say the surv...Read More
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