Tuesday, September 4, 2012 · Robert A Rudzki
The global research results demonstrate a clear relationship between an organization’s overall Beat the Odds (BTO) score across nine core principles, and key corporate longevity issues such as employee retention, employee morale, industry rank, and financial performance.
Monday, July 9, 2012 · Robert A Rudzki
Something happened in major league baseball recently that begs for comment because of its relevance to the world of business, and in particular to the world of procurement and supply management.
Monday, July 2, 2012 · Thomas S. Davis and Robert A. Novack
The right supply chain metrics can help you answer three key questions: Where do we want to go? How do we get there? And how do we know when we’ve arrived? The ability to answer these questions—in an accurate and timely manner—can lead directly to superior business…
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 · Martha Lessman Katz
Mayo Clinic started its social media presence in 2005 with its first podcast, subsequently incorporated Facebook and YouTube and launched its Twitter page in 2008.
Monday, May 7, 2012 · John D. Schulz, Contributing Editor
The nation’s top trucking companies share “high intensity” management teams, financial stability, and IT systems that afford “two-way communication” with shippers—and they’re just getting wiser.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 · Hau L. Lee, Sonali V. Rammohan, and Lesley Sept
Managing logistics in developing countries presents real challenges—from poor roads and unreliable vehicles to less than ideal warehousing options. When public health is at stake, the logistics issues are even more worrisome.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 · Christoph Glatzel, Jochen Großpietsch, and Ildefonso Silva
Managing a global supply chain involves tough organizational challenges that promise only to intensify as operations expand and become increasingly interconnected. Key among those challenges: getting functional groups to understand their impact on one another so that they can…
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 · Dr. Dale S. Rogers is Professor, Logistics & Supply Chain Management and Co-Director of the Center for Supply Chain Management at Rutgers University College of Business
More and more companies now recognize that creating a sustainable supply chain is more than just the right thing to do—it's a requisite to business success. Sustainability today resembles the quality movement of three decades ago. As with quality, there was initial…
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 · Reinhard Geissbauer and Brad Householder
New global survey from PRTM confirms the importance of operational flexibility in supply chain success and identifies five key levers that leaders employ to make it happen. The financial and performance benefits of improved flexibility can be profound. And companies can start…
Friday, July 1, 2011 · Per Segerberg
Many procurement organizations still have blurred ideas of what their true strategic purpose should be. But a few—the procurement “masters”—do properly understand strategy. And they regularly practice it. The product lifecycle framework presented here provides a useful…
Friday, July 1, 2011 · Paula Tolliver
Dow Purchasing relied on its robust processes, governance and organizational structure—along with some novel change management approaches designed to clarify roles and unify around corporate priorities—to quickly and efficiently integrate the most complex acquisition in…
Monday, May 2, 2011 · Joydeep Ganguly, Alasdair Shepherd, Esther Alegria, Rob Ciamarra and Rob Handfield
The management team at Biogen Idec knew they had to transform the supply chain to cope with increasing volume and complexity at this biotech company. Beginning with a detailed gap analysis, they launched a comprehensive transformation program that addressed factors as varied…
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