Supply Chains

Before I went into consulting I was the VP in charge of the supply chain at a big consumer products company, and I used to have a pretty standard spee…

Häagen-Dazs, owned by ice cream giant Dreyer's, just announced that they're "downsizing" their pints of ice cream. In a truly Orwell…

Yes, there must have been a conference I missed, because out of the blue I've been deluged with official letters from customers, large and small,…

Oprah Winfrey has appeared in this blog two times in the past, once in relation to my mother in-law and a second time when announcing Craig Woll joini…

Containerization is considered one of the most significant breakthroughs in the development of modern logistics and supply chains. The ability to effi…

The featured article on Superfactory in January is a piece by one of the heavyweights of the lean movement, Richard Schonberger, titled The Skinny on…

Another day, another article trying to figure out how to simplify global supply chains... without realizing that the easiest way to simplify them is t…

The McKinsey guys just published the results of a survey on supply chain management that has some interesting, albeit expected (at least by us!), conc…