Sitting in the middle of a blizzard, it would be easy to focus on the difficulties supply chain professionals face at this time of year. But I am much more interested in looking forward into next year and opportunities ahead.
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“Hacktivism” grabbed the headlines last week as a group of collaborating hackers, known as Anonymous, disrupted MasterCard’s online payment processing system for several hours.
There is something surreal about the story of the penguins and the walrus, and how they got a major retailer into hot water. But it could have significant implications for supply chain professionals dealing with the growth in home delivery.
I was intrigued to learn that Lourens Schouwink is an amateur magician in his spare time.
The past year has seen rapid change in company supply chains. A year ago, the recession meant that organisations were having to deal with suppliers going out of business.
Sometimes research throws up a fact that just stops you in your tracks. And that happened to me with Oracle’s study “Supply Chain Information: The Weakest Link?” which discovered that supply chain managers spend, on average 48 per cent of their time
Last month 70 global companies and 27 European business associations, all members of CSR Europe, got together in Brussels to launch Enterprise 2020 – an initiative designed to shape the business contribution to the European Union’s Europe 2020 strategy
As I write, the Prime Minister is involved in meetings of Cobra, the government’s emergency planning committee, to formulate a response to the discovery of a bomb on an aircraft at East Midlands airport.
Last year a report by Accenture, The sustainable supply chain, argued that organisations that take the lead in developing innovative supply chain strategies and then proactively embed sustainability within their operations will most likely stay ahead
It’s interesting to see how corporate attention to environmental matters can have a very real impact on the way companies drive efficiency in their supply chains.
