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Global Shades of Risk
In these uncertain times how to avoid and/or mitigate risk is attracting a lot of attention. But an aspect that up until now has not been studied in much detail is how managers in different countries...
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Big City Supply Chains
Which enterprises come to mind when you think of cutting-edge supply chains? I suspect Mumbai Dabbawalas is not one of them. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the organization, dabbawalas are...
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Planning For the Bullwhip Effect
Economists and others in the media are offering varying opinions regarding the speed or shape of the impending recovery. Along those lines, many of our client conversations these days are about when...
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Deciding What’s Best
Toyota’s product recall agony is providing rich pickings for industry and media pundits, who are mining the saga for insights into the causes of the automaker’s predicament. We will no doubt be...
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Hidden Treasures
There is no denying the pain inflicted by the global financial crisis, but a decade from now this period in our history might be cast in a more favorable light than we imagine. In fact, according to...
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Delivering Relief
In the freight industry – or in western countries generally for that matter – a cross dock is not usually regarded as a life-saving device. But in Zambia the availability of a cross dock for a health...
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Freight Transportation Enters New Waters
Will nuclear-powered container ships soon be plying the world’s oceans? Or vessels powered by fuel cells and solar panels? These theoretical ships might seem far-fetched, but there could be enough of...
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Upwardly Mobile
As the recent launch of Apple’s iPhone 4 underlines, cell phones continue to morph into communications hubs with a seemingly limitless range of applications. While the supply chain corner of this...
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Building a Pipeline for Talent
How to recruit and retain supply chain talent might not seem like a pressing problem in a sputtering economy that is struggling to create enough jobs, but enlightened companies are thinking about...
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What Does Supply Chain Need? More Boomerangs
In the grand scheme of professions supply chain is not exactly a show stopper. How many times have you told a fellow partygoer what you do for a living only to receive a vacant smile in return? And if...
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Don’t Become an Accidental Tourist
Being a tourist in a country where you do not speak the language can feel like having a sizeable slice of your IQ removed. Suddenly, you struggle to complete simple tasks like asking directions and...
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Takes on Tomorrow
‘Tis the peak season for predictions, with experts from every quarter reading the runes about what lies ahead in the next year. So, let’s slip into prophesy mode with some thoughts on the future of...
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Losing Too Much Sleep Over Volatility?
It is accepted wisdom that change is the only constant, yet companies spend an inordinate amount of time trying to manage the market’s ups and downs. How important is controlling volatility to overall...
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Building the Logistics Brand
Apple is the world’s most valuable brand according to media research company Millward Brown Optimor in its 2011 study of the Most Valuable Global Brands. The study measures the share of company...
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Unexplored Territory in the Globalization Map
The need to expand globally is almost a given in most markets, and from a supply chain perspective it now comes as no surprise that international growth exposes operations to more risk. Does this mean...
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Raising the Cost Efficiency Bar
Shippers are always on the lookout for ways to squeeze more savings out of their freight networks and improve performance. We asked leading industry analyst Adrian Gonzalez to give us his take on two...
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Hot Off the Press
It is difficult to keep pace with technological change, particularly where the relevance of a technology to the logistics business is not immediately obvious. To help you track developments like these...
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Guest Post: Learning to Partner with Academia
Whether it’s a burning question that needs to be answered or a gap in your knowledge that has the potential to yield some valuable insights, taking the time to do the research – assuming you have the...
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Guest Post: A Resolution You Might Want to Consider – Think Big
Here’s a prediction for 2013: something big will happen. OK, I’m not exactly going out on a limb here, but bear with me. By “big” I mean a world-scale event such as a natural disaster, a political...
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Guest Post: In-Kind Donations
Editor’s Note: How to deliver urgently needed supplies in the aftermath of disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes is one of the most difficult challenges facing responders. This guest post,...
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Guest Post: Collaboration the Key to Unblocking Megacity Streets?
Guest Post: Collaboration the Key to Unblocking Megacity Streets? Picture a truck delivering product in a traffic-choked megacity and physical obstacles such as a maze of one-way streets come to mind....
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Guest Post: The Rise of Networks as Market Goliaths
Guest Post: The Rise of Networks as Market Goliaths Many of the large companies that dominate world markets owe their strength and continuing growth to their underlying structure: a formidable network....
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Guest Post: Three Pillars of Effective Supply Chain Collaborations, Part 1
Guest Post: Three Pillars of Effective Supply Chain Collaborations, Part 1 Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Kelly Allen, Berry Plastics Corporation & Cecilia Symanski, IPC. Supply chain...
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Guest Post: The Rewards of Collaborative Supply Chains, Part 2
Guest Post: The Rewards of Collaborative Supply Chains, Part 2 Last week we looked at the three features of collaborative relationships between supply chain partners that, in our experience, are...
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Guest Post: Ignoring this Performance Metric is Risky
There are many ways to measure supply chain performance in terms of resilience, but there is one that’s easily overlooked even though it is gaining in importance: Detection time. By that I mean the...
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Improving Logistics Efficiency: How Cities Can Join Forces to Combat Traffic...
Many big cities around the world have implemented environmentally sustainable programs to reduce the traffic snarls that add costs to urban supply chains. Can the expertise they have gained in...
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