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• Manufacturing Jobs- Enough of the Sound Bites

  
  Supply Chain Matters — Authority: 421
  Last week, Vice President Joe Biden met with a group of executives from manufacturing companies to lay out a framework for boosting more manufacturing jobs in the United States.  At the meeting, the Vice president announced support for an Obama Administration sponsored program for $5 billion expansion in tax ...
  4 days ago

• Hooray- First Flight of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner

  
  Supply Chain Matters — Authority: 421
    It has finally happened!   The Boeing 787 Dreamliner completed its first flight yesterday after almost two years of delays.   You can view a neat video of the actual flight at Boeing’s official First Flight web site .   Click on the 787 flight icon at the top of the page.     First ...
  1 week ago

• 2009 Supply Chain Matters Predictions: Year End Assessment- Post Two

  
  Supply Chain Matters — Authority: 421
    In our  Part One posting , I provided an end-of-year reflection and final grading on the first three Supply Chain Matters 2009 predictions for global supply chains. In this posting, I will grade the remaining two predictions.   As previously noted I’ve assigned my own grading, on a scale of A ...
  1 week ago

• 2009 Supply Chain Matters Predictions- Year End Assessment

  
  Supply Chain Matters — Authority: 421
  Just before the beginning of 2009, in the spirit of annual tradition, I outlined five Supply Chain Matters global supply chain predictions for 2009.  Here are the web links to Post One , and Post Two which originally outlined these predictions. These predictions have been provided to assist our ...
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• Daimler’s Decision to Source Additional Production in the U.S.- Is This a Sign of More Activity by Others?

  
  Supply Chain Matters — Authority: 421
  At the very beginning of this year, I penned my Supply Chain Predictions for 2009. Prediction Four was that the year would bring a very changed offshore and near-shoring decision framework. I noted that outsourcing decisions would become much more analytical and differentiated, focusing more on the trade-off for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Flexible vs. Lean Manufacturing- Which Provides the Most Value?

  
  Supply Chain Matters — Authority: 421
  A ran across a blog post on BNET penned by Jim Henry that stated that BMW is betting that Flexible manufacturing, not Lean is the next big thing in auto manufacturing .  The article quotes Rich Morris, a vice president at BMW’s U.S. operations as noting that “ everyone has to become more flexible. “  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Three Implications from the Gartner/AMR Research Acquisition- Part Three

  
  Supply Chain Matters — Authority: 421
  In my Part One posting , I shared commentary on the changing business model of providing industry analyst services catered to global supply chain process and technology selection needs.  Our Part Two posting focused on various implications for Gartner’s integration plans involving AMR Research and what ...
  3 weeks ago

• Are Companies More Prone Toward Vertical Integration?

  
  Supply Chain Matters — Authority: 421
  I wanted to post a follow-up to my recent Supply Chain Matters commentary regarding whether CEO’s were currently positioning more for market dominance or re-building value-chains for post recession recovery .   My initial commentary reflected on contrasting the $38 billion in acquisition activity during just ...
  3 weeks ago

• Three Implications from the Gartner Acquisition of AMR Research- Part One

  
  Supply Chain Matters — Authority: 421
  Yesterday’s news of the Gartner acquisition of AMR Research has, as expected, generated lots of commentary across the blogsphere.  I penned my initial comments to this announcement yesterday. The acquisition of AMR Research has a special significance, since AMR has garnered quite a following in our extended ...
  3 weeks ago

• AMR Research Acquired- Will This be a Void in Supply Chain Advisory Coverage?

  
  Supply Chain Matters — Authority: 421
  The biggest news in the industry analyst community this year came with this morning’s announcement that Gartner has agreed to acquire AMR Research for approximately $64 million in cash, subject to certain closing adjustments. Many in the supply chain community would agree that AMR Research had assumed the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Black Friday-Cyber Monday Weekend: Challenges Compound for Supply Chains

  
  Supply Chain Matters — Authority: 421
  As I pen this posting on Cyber Monday, there are already lots of predictions in the blogsphere regarding the sales activities for the 2009 holiday buying season.  The headline in today’s Wall Street Journal, More Shoppers Hit Stores, but Spend Less Each , (subscription may be required) summarizes a consensus ...
  3 weeks ago

• H1N1 Vaccine Supplies: Fixing Supply and Demand Imbalances- Post Two Update

  
  Supply Chain Matters — Authority: 421
  In our last Supply Chain Matters commentary on the topic of H1N1 vaccine availability in the U.S. on October 28th, we touched upon the then current imbalance in providing adequate supplies of the H1N1 vaccine.  Since we are now approaching the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in the U.S. where lots of families ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Changing Winds of Outsourcing Manufacturing in China

  
  Supply Chain Matters — Authority: 421
  While searching China’s Xinhua News Agency site to secure references to my previous posting related to the after effects of the tainted milk scandal, I came across a rather interesting article that provides some indication of the changing winds of outsourcing manufacturing within China. The article, Toy exports ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Tainted Milk Scandal in China- One Year Later

  
  Supply Chain Matters — Authority: 421
  In late September of 2008, the incidents of Chinese milk and powdered milk products laced with the chemical melamine became very public, and the outrage within China and other countries was highly charged.  Six infants died and more than 300,000 children were made ill, some seriously, as result of digesting tainted ...
  4 weeks ago

• Kraft Rolls Up 50M Miles Saved Through Transportation Efficiency

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 626
  Since 2005, Kraft has saved more than 50 million miles in its transportation and distribution processes globally.The savings came from a variety of initiatives, according to a press release.By shifting to barge shipments of wheat to its Toledo, Ohio, flour Mill, Kraft knocked out 10,000 truck shipments and reduced ...
  4 weeks ago

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