By Mike Burnette and Mike Policastro ·
August 7, 2020
Leading supply chain organizations leverage workforce diversity, and specifically generational diversity, to deliver high performance organization (HPO) results
By Mike Burnette and Mike Policastro ·
July 30, 2020
Industry leading companies are already working on “New to World Best Practices” for tomorrow’s High Performance Organizations
By Mike Burnette and Mike Policastro ·
July 28, 2020
Leadership alone cannot drive a high-performance culture. Organizations must also establish principles and best practices to inspire change from the bottom up
By Mike Burnette and Mike Policastro ·
July 23, 2020
Heightened expectations, driven by heightened customer expectations, are driving the interest in High Performance Organization best practices
By Mike Burnette and Mike Policastro ·
July 21, 2020
How High Performance Organizations (HPOs) leverage disruption to create competitive advantage
By Brent Moritz ·
May 12, 2020
What is different about COVID-19 and other supply chain disruptions?
By Michael Levans ·
September 4, 2019
For me, September is the time to make a fresh start. It’s the beginning of new school year for the kids; a new college and professional football season ramps up; and, of course, conference season for nearly all professions is
about to get into full swing.
By Steven Bowen and Mike Burnette ·
March 6, 2019
Lack of supply chain integration can be seen in misguided capacity plans, poorly calibrated production schedules, a cost imbalance for a given supplier, who may even end up out of business, buildup of excess inventory, inefficient use of logistics resources, poor customer service, lost revenues and ultimately diminished returns.
By SCMR Staff ·
November 30, 2018
Integrating a supply chain under one executive can drive value but may come with its own challenges, posits a new white paper by the Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business. According to its authors, solutions may be found in redefining the concept of supply chain integration.
By SCMR Staff ·
September 27, 2018
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business has appointed Mary Long as the new managing director of the Global Supply Chain Institute’s Supply Chain Forum.
WHITE PAPER
By LM Staff ·
October 18, 2017
New breakthrough developments, such as drones and driverless vehicles, seem to be everywhere.
By MMH Staff ·
May 3, 2017
SDI, Penn State’s Center for Supply Chain Research, University of Tennessee Knoxville, and Peerless Media co-sponsor awards program to recognize leaders who have transformed MRO from a cost of doing business to a strategic lever of competitiveness.
By Patrick Burnson ·
February 28, 2017
SCMR was recently reminded about new study from the University of Tennessee’s Global Supply Chain Institute that outlines six key factors to leveraging transparency in supply chains for financial profit.
By Dianne Marshall ·
July 25, 2016
Grade point average and leadership aren’t the only benchmarks for successful undergraduate hires. The best companies spend years getting to know candidates.
By Patrick Burnson ·
February 26, 2016
More than 80 percent of domestic Fortune 500 companies outsource their logistics operations and most expect to use third party logistics (3PL) providers more in the coming years, according to the University of Tennessee (UT) study sponsored by Kenco.