The discipline of supply chain management requires multi-enterprise collaboration. Is your multi-enterprise supply chain responsive, adaptive, agile, and efficient? How well does your multi-enterprise supply chain enable your people to profitably meet the demands of your customers?
TRADITIONALLY manufacturers have not built their supply chains to respond in a synchronised way to variability in customer demand.
WHILE how to approach the sustainability challenge remains an open question, leading supply chain organisations are already proving that exploring sustainable options is giving them the advantage over competitors.
THE discipline of Supply Chain Management requires multi-enterprise collaboration.
FROM the future of transportation fuels to the outlook for offshoring, Smart 2009 Conference will tackle the major issues facing supply chains in a time of increasing economic and environmental uncertainty.
AS physical supply chains have grown longer and more complicated due to globalisation, manufacturers have responded by applying new technologies to achieve a more collaborative and automated approach.
MANAGING risk is likely to be the major concern of the supply chain industry in the 21st century and companies should be shaping network designs based on when disruption occurs, not if...
GM Holden has begun to put the idea of 'greening' its supply chain into action, partnering with the World Environment Centre (WEC) to examine the sustainability practices of its parts and components suppliers. Derek Parker reports.
The Supply Chain & Logistics Association of Australia (SCLAA) and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Australia (CILTA) partnered to present the Australian Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence Awards 2008 on Thursday the 13th of November at the Sofitel Brisbane.
WINNING in business, like football, is not about playing “hunches” or going by “gut feel.” You cannot even look at metrics such as on-time delivery or defect rates or fill rates and hope to have a good understanding of your supply chain, much less to achieve the “perfect” order.