Dude, It's a Supply Chain Wipeout!
16 April 2007
What would you do if the sole source for your most critical component of your only product suddenly decided to shut down? Look for a tall building?…
Secure Supply Chain Value
8 April 2007
Last month's Knowledge@Wharton had an article titled When Local Risks Become Global Risks, which discusses how globalization has augmented the imp…
Whose Monkey Is It?
25 July 2006
I came across a rather inane article not long ago in which some self-proclaimed expert on supplier development argued that companies should focus on h…
Lean and Green
18 July 2006
Organic cucumbers, vegetarians, global warming... and lean manufacturing. An unlikely combination? Not in the latest issue of Grist Magazine, which…
Yet More Lean Supply Chain Nonsense
22 June 2006
We've talked about this before... what happens to supply chain risk when you become very, very lean? In the June 17th issue of The Economist ther…