Demand Driven MRP and the Certified Demand Driven Planner
Rarely does a person see a 5-star rating appear opposite a book that is sold on Amazon – especially a technical one. Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning 3rd edition, by Carol Ptak and Chad Smith...
View ArticleSlavery Lives in the Supply Chain! Food Multinational Nestlé Drafts Its...
If you worked for five years or more without pay, and if you were brutally beaten if you tried to run away and were caught, would you call it “cost containment” or “unethical business practice”? I...
View ArticleExtending Payment Terms? Short Term Gain Leads to Long Term Pain
“Doing the right thing, even when no one is looking.” If ethics could be summarized in a single phrase, I think this might be it. It applies to the destructive practice in which some buying...
View ArticleProcurement Certification: What Are the Options?
There is a bewildering amount of choice in today’s market for training, education, and certification. Many who labor within the supply chain eventually come to a watershed moment in their career: they...
View ArticleMeasuring Carbon Footprints: A Bold New Approach from Columbia University
Most practitioners in 21st century sustainable supply chains know – or at least think we know – what is meant by the term “carbon footprint.” But measuring the carbon footprint of products, activities,...
View ArticleISM Hosts 98th Annual Supply Management Conference
ISM 98th Annual International Supply Management Conference & Educational Exhibit Registration is now open! One of the premier events in the supply chain and logistics management conference...
View ArticleGlossary – Supply Chain Acronyms – 2nd Edition
Supply Chain Management practitioners are famous for using acronyms. In an effort to demystify our language, Supply Chain Almanac has developed the following Glossary. It contains over 600...
View ArticleW. Edwards Deming’s 14 Points: Point # 3: “Cease Dependence on Mass Inspection”
Late in the 20th Century, the term “GIGO”, or “garbage in, garbage out” was popularized, specifically with reference to data management and ubiquitous computerization. There was no computer in the...
View ArticleW. Edwards Deming’s 14 Points: Point # 4: “End the practice of awarding...
In her thought-provoking editorial titled “One Single Point of Failure” (Purchasing b2b Magazine, May 2010), Deborah Aarts discusses the April 2010 eruption of volcano Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland, and...
View ArticleISM Conference 2014, Las Vegas Nevada
ISM’s annual Conference delivers rich content from practitioners with a strong track record in the field. Focus on topics that are important to you in global supply chain, logistics, big data and...
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