Elephants Make Lousy Supply Chain Models
10 December 2012
by BILL WADDELL The folks at The Christian Science Monitor wrote about some head-shakingly bad experiences with on line shopping the other day: &quo…
10 December 2012
by BILL WADDELL The folks at The Christian Science Monitor wrote about some head-shakingly bad experiences with on line shopping the other day: &quo…
7 December 2012
by BILL WADDELL By now I am sure just about everyone has read that Apple's Tim Cook has announced that Apple will start making some computers in…
6 December 2012
by BILL WADDELL The New York Times has run a series of stories written by a guy who runs a woodworking company in the Philadelphia area in which the…
1 December 2012
by BILL WADDELL We call them the LLCC's - the Low Labor Cost Countries - and we rationalize having the goods we buy made there through a convenie…
29 November 2012
by BILL WADDELL Once there was a manufacturing executive who was concerned about the inaccurate financial information he was getting, so he moved his…
27 November 2012
by BILL WADDELL An interesting article over at Industry Week: Lean's High Tech Makeover - Toyota matches its Toyota Production System with advan…
21 November 2012
by BILL WADDELL The good folks at McKinsey have put out a massive report called "Manufacturing the Future: The Next Era of Global Growth and Inn…
19 November 2012
by BILL WADDELL It seems rather curious that Hostess Brands CEO Gregory Rayburn would have so much time to talk to the business press over the last w…