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For our 2008 Rainmakers, success is about more than fame and fortune. It's also about making contributions to the logistics field and advancing the profession.
When changes in wafer fabrication added more links to Texas Instruments' supply chain, the semiconductor maker responded by streamlining its operations.
They operate in different countries, serve different markets, and faced different operating problems. Yet these four companies all found the answer in voice technology.
Supply chain management by its very nature depends on relationships and connections. In this excerpt from their recent book, Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management: An Essential Guide for the 21st Century, the authors first describe some of the relationships that play an important role in achieving supply chain success. In the following section, they focus on consultants, looking at how they operate and when it makes sense to use them or not.
Logistics and supply chain professionals have joined the college crowd on social networking sites. But they're not there to share photos or swap movie recommendations; they're looking to get advice, snag a job, or seal a deal.
Nearly everyone agrees that we have to do something about the nation's aging and inadequate surface transportation infrastructure. But the consensus ends there.
At the end of May, DHL officials acknowledged that restructuring was necessary to stem "unacceptable losses," but dismissed speculation that Deutsche Post might pull out of the U.S. market.
Energy, raw material, labor, and insurance costs are skyrocketing. Competition is cutthroat. Shippers demand more for less. And there's the ever-present specter of further government regulation. What's a less-than-truckload carrier to do?
Although the trucking industry intends to do what it can to promote fuel economy and ease the situation, it's also looking for a little help from policy-makers.
The American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) has announced a partnership with the AidMatrix Network that will enhance ALAN's disaster-response capabilities.
Workbikes with integrated cargo trailers that can carry loads of up to 1,000 pounds are gaining converts in eco-conscious cities like Boston, New York City, and Berkeley, Calif.
Author Dan Gardner, president of Los Angeles-based Trade Facilitators Inc. and a former DHL Global Forwarding exec, is using the global trade angle to pitch his new novel to the logistics trade press.
Warehouse workers may someday be able to get through a shift without breaking a sweat, if a real-life "Iron Man" suit under development for the U.S. Army becomes commercially available.
If you're looking to expand your horizons beyond, say, logistics and distribution, enrolling in a comprehensive supply chain course might be the way to go.
We all realize that the world's supply of fossil fuels is finite and that we must wean ourselves off those fuels. But it will take time to kick the habit.
Truckers are willing to pay more in order to build a more efficient and productive surface transportation system, but the people who make the decisions on taxing and spending have a very different perspective.
While insisting on order might be obsessive-compulsive in a business sense, organized thinking lies somewhere between desirable and absolutely required.