Identifying best practices in transportation management and implementing those best practices across a company's supply chain network are a fundamental element of good supply chain management. Whether the network is...
Business changes in the area of reverse logistics are slowly working their way upstream to the manufacturer. When the manufacturer fully realizes the extent to which reverse logistics affects the bottom line, perhaps...
Tide detergent is available nearly anywhere in the world. It may have a different formulation depending on the market. It may be formulated for hot wash or cold or for scrubbing along a river bank. "Wherever you see...
The first step in managing risk is identifying where a company is at risk. The tendency for most companies is to think of risk in a fairly narrow context, suggests David Closs, a professor at Michigan State University...
Although automaker General Motors Corp. (www.gm.com) has been involved in implementing lean practices for a number of years, Tom McMillen, GM's director global logistics, believes implementing lean practices will be...
When it comes to inventory accuracy, the bottom line is the main goal for Jon Rauch, factory logistics manager with high-end computer manufacturer SGI (www.sgi.com). In his case, it is served with speed...
How good are you at what you do? That's the basic question companies need to ask themselves before they consider outsourcing some of their tasks to a third-party logistics provider (3PL)...
Sun Microsystems Inc. bases its extensive supplier performance management process on a scorecard which ranks suppliers under a number of categories, according to Randy Louie, Sun's director of customer fulfillment...
When it comes to protecting your supply chain, a within-the-four-walls focus no longer works. Companies nowadays must depend not only on their own efforts, but on the security procedures of their supply chain partners...
Product quality and ISO 9000 standards are the quality buzzwords of yesteryear. Today's leading-edge companies are approaching quality at the strategic level, according to George Alukal, vice president of quality and...
