Horrifying and upsetting, this article about the contract warehouses of online retailers, I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave is a compelling if not grisly read. Mother Jones reporter Mac McClelland goes undercover in a warehouse by applying for and getting an actual job as a picker. The conditions are what one might expect in a [...]
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It’s been proven that supply chain risk events can cause a company’s stock to tank and company to lose market value. Now enter the new supply chain risk market makers: the channel checkers. These are the analysts who follow large manufacturing firms’ supply and demand and make a living out of predicting whether production [...] Supply chain risk management (SCRM) is the hot topic at conferences, the blogosphere, and in many supply management circles. Supply risk experts, pundits and wannabes are shouting supply risk warnings from every rooftop, inundating us with webinars, talks, and articles, a veritable group of naysayers predicting the end of the world. Yet, it seems [...] A tip of the hat to Benjamin Benulis at Silicon Laboratories in Austin, TX for alerting me to two funny supply chain videos. Well, they would be even funnier if it weren’t so painfully true. Here are the links: I want my widgets now Where are the widgets I ordered? What strikes me about these two [...] On June 17th, 2010 at midnight, someone got by PR Newswire’s vetting process and issued a fake press release about cereal maker General Mills. The press release falsely claimed that President Obama was launching an investigation into General Mill’s supply chain. The press released was confirmed to be a hoax and immediately retracted. The Wall Street Journal reported [...] Looks like it’s really all over for NUMMI, the Toyota/GM joint auto manufacturing venture in Fremont, CA. Last summer, I wrote a post about the strong possibility of Toyota’s closing the plant (NUMMI: Things Are Looking Gloomy). The plant was losing money. Located in a high-wage area, even potential UAW concessions didn’t seem like enough to [...] An article in today’s WSJ, “Companies More Prone to Go Vertical,” discussed the current trend for some companies such as Oracle, Pepsi, IBM, General Motors, Boeing and Apple, to cite a few, to return to the practice of vertical integration. Vertical integration can be defined as the degree to which a company owns its upstream suppliers and [...] Supply managers and buyers have always had the challenge not just of finding suppliers but finding suppliers who are both high-performing and “best value”. Numerous supplier evaluation and supplier performance management software solutions are now available, where ten years ago very few options existed. Most options that I’m aware of are either SaaS (software [...] |
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