Entries tagged as supply chain management

Combination of company’s business processes, skills and motivation of its employees and ability to measure performance are in my view three most importance factors when talking about operational excellence. In my reengineering days when there was a need to understand how to resolve a specific business problem we always started from discovering the current business process in order to understand specific issues and improvement opportunities that stem from fixing these issues. A key component to quantifying the potential fix is ability to put real numbers behind both issues and solutions. There are companies out there today that offer a very interesting take on the measuring aspect. Oco Inc, a Waltham MA based company offers host of supply chain management related solutions bringing Software As A Service (SAAS) model into the supply chain world.

Rare events in our recent history made more dramatic changes to the world and to the supply chains than the fall of the Berlin wall. 

I was outraged when I received a letter in the mail on Saturday from Citibank (disclosure: I am a stock holder) saying that the interest on my credit card was going up to 24.99% for purchases, and 29.99% for cash advances. 

Transport Logistics China 2010, a massive exposition and conference, will be held from June 8-10 at the Shanghai New International Expo Center. 

The economy is always the pink elephant in the room. No matter our function, we have to look at our decisions based on current and future economic conditions.