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How do Millennials in our profession think and act? What drives the successors of today's supply chain leaders? Supply Chain Management Review interviewed four up and coming 30-something managers from [...]

There's a folksy sign hanging in the coffee room not far from Mary Long's office. The sign reads: 'Good judgment comes from experience--and experience comes from poor judgment.' Mary Long [...]

With their budgets screwed down tight and further cutbacks likely in many industries, supply chain leaders could be forgiven for freezing all spending on software. In practice, they are spending [...]

In 2002, Penn State University offered 10 executive education programs for supply chain leaders. By 2006, the university was hosting 33 such programs. Penn State's surge of activity has not [...]

If one day your teen invites you to join him in a round of World of Warcraft or Halo 2 or another interactive video game, you ought to jump at [...]

Theresa Williams had had it with paperwork. The credit-financing chief of Zebra Technologies was finding that up to 70 percent of her company's letters of credit were rejected by the [...]

In seconds, you can have someone's mobile phone jingling on a street in Singapore. In minutes, you can wire money from your local supermarket to Dar es Salaam. Yet in [...]

The practice of supplier diversity is gaining traction not just in North America but in organizations around the globe. Increasingly, companies are concluding that in addition to being the right [...]

Famous last words: 'We thought we had a very well-defined contract.' Those words are from a top manager at a major third-party logistics provider (3PL) brought on to run a [...]

Just about now, a team of inspectors will be touring the Monterrey plant of Carrier Mexico, S.A. de C.V., one of North America's largest manufacturers of air conditioning units for [...]

Logistics challenges abound in China. Skyward expansion in every sector of the country's transportation infrastructure will keep the logistics sector in flux for years. And although conditions are rapidly improving, [...]

CHINA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH SEEMS UNSTOPPABLE. Almost every statistic points to increasing momentum in sales revenues and market share; nearly every headline trumpets greater opportunity for foreign investors, much of it [...]

Picture this scenario: Customs authorities at the Port of Long Beach have placed a hold on four containers that have just arrived from Indonesia. They're part of a shipment of [...]

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that the Bush administration could open U.S. highways to Mexican trucks, it appeared that the last barrier to cross-border trade was [...]

Much as air travelers can buy tickets from one airline but fly on a partner carrier, so can ocean cargo booked with one steamship line travel on vessels owned by [...]

Let's get two facts straight: Manufacturers' supply chains have become horribly complicated, and things won't get easier any time soon. Oh, and a third thing: If there is a winning [...]

The UK Department of Trade and Industry has published statistics on small and mediums sized UK firms which incorporate data from the Central Statistical Office's new Inter-Departmental Business Register covering small firms not normally mentioned in official statistics. The figures indicate that six sevenths of businesses are operated by self-employed people, and that there are only 17,000 companies with more than 100 staff. In the financial, chemicals, water and energy sectors large firms still lead.

Imagine for a moment you're Bing Yeh. You've spent six years building up this wildly successful little semiconductor company, Silicon Storage Technology Inc. The products are based largely on your [...]

The Vital Statistics Average 1994 revenues $22,906,000 Average number of employees 118.7 Average age of company (in years) 8.7 Median 1994 revenues $8,873,000 Median 1994 profitability range 1%-5% Median amount [...]

THE THING I HATE ABOUT GETTING MY CAR back from the repair shop isn't the bill. It's that it's no longer my car. The seat's back--way back, thanks to some [...]

I MAY NOT RUN A COMPANY, BUT I AM LIKE YOU IN more ways than I'd care to admit. We won't go into detail about the kids' soccer games I've [...]

It seems right to ask why nobody ever thought about it before. Businesses have been chugging along with financial transaction mechanisms that actually do date back to the Middle Ages. [...]

Thirty years ago, supply chain thinking revolved largely around the field then known as physical distribution management. The focus in manufacturing was on process control, and the operations management textbooks [...]

For a company whose products induced shock and awe during the Iraq offensive, there was little that was impressive about Raytheon Company's logistics systems at the start of the 21st [...]

If you're importing goods from some parts of the world--let's say Dusseldorf, Germany, for example--you'll almost certainly be able to track the shipment throughout its journey, pinpoint the arrival date, [...]

We won't name names, but not long ago, a very well-known sportswear maker took a financial hammering when its supply chain software failed to properly manage its inventory and deliveries. [...]

Minister's son Alvin Rohrs likes to joke about how inept he once was at spreading the gospel of free enterprise. Rohrs tells stories about the days when he belonged to [...]

In widely varied kinds of businesses, the smart company builders are creating workplaces that employees love and success is bred in. Inc.'s second annual report To: Inc. magazine From: Determinedly [...]

Here's an interesting statistic: The world's largest municipality isn't Tokyo or Sao Paolo or Seoul. It's Chongqing, a metropolitan area of more than 30 million people in the middle of [...]

Analyzing metallic effects in powder coatings. Powder coatings may be defined as solventless paint systems composed of finely divided pigmented polymer particles. They are applied to the substrate using air [...]

Data compression enhances imaging, workflow To compete in a world of increasingly complex geologic regimes and fiscal realities, exploration and development (E&D) companies are using the latest technology and innovative [...]

The 'aha' moment for May Leng Yau-Patterson came about 12 years ago when she and her team were trying to implement a kanban system on the production line at her [...]

Shoshanah Cohen can draw very fine lines. 'In consulting there's a fine line between being confident and being pushy and obnoxious,' she says. When she led the global supply chain [...]

You can never have too many good people on board. Although those aren't the exact words that Mike Hadley uses, they may as well be his maxim. You see, Hadley [...]

Ron Schnur spent much more than he had to when he was a sourcing chief at beer maker Coors. Instead of trying to procure bottle labels for as little as [...]

Herb Johnson is not the retiring type--not in any sense of the word. While many of his contemporaries keep busy by perfecting their golf swings, Johnson is heading up a [...]

If you're trying to locate Michael Regan, the question can never be: 'Where's Mike?' The much more pertinent question is: 'Where isn't Mike?' Regan is unabashedly an 'everywhere man.' He's [...]

Don't even try to argue with Dr. John Gattorna that supply chains really just boil down to a system of distribution centers, procurement processes, technology tools, and transportation routes. You [...]

Nancy Nix couldn't believe her eyes. Getting off the plane in Mumbai to begin her new supply chain job with one of India's most successful industrial conglomerates, she saw a [...]

Go looking for supply chain authority Dave Closs on the campus of Michigan State University and these days you may not find him on the premises of the school's Eli [...]

'How can we not give supply chain practitioners a tool that helps them say whether they're bad or good at what they do?' That was the challenge that Kate Vitasek [...]

Most other senior managers would have thought they had the team they needed. After all, sourcing personal protective equipment for the factory was a relatively straightforward job. But Ron Casbon [...]

'Kind of brutal.' That's how Larry Smith recalls a face-to-face meeting not long ago with West Marine's supplier of pumps and valves. The meeting wasn't meant to discipline or diminish [...]

Chuck Taylor wants supply chain managers to wake up. He wants them to see that abundant oil is a thing of the past. He aims to convince them to reshape [...]

Few supply chain leaders have the clout that Norbert Ore has. Fewer still have the ear of U.S. policymakers and captains of industry. Although Norbert Ore may lack the household-name [...]

John Mascaritolo could never be accused of short-termism or blamed for having a blinkered world view. The former NCR executive, now a college professor, has always kept an eye on [...]

'The things you're talking about aren't important.' That was the blunt input from a senior manufacturing executive not long after John Coyle had started teaching supply chain management at The [...]

'There are several members of my staff who are a bit unconventional.' That's the cheerful admission from Angel Mendez. It's an admission that applies just as well to Mendez himself, [...]