Tag: Supply Chain

FT.com / Home UK / UK - Oil price forces P&G to rethink its distributionOK, I'm catching up on an old post since I...

Stung by Soaring Transport Costs, Factories Bring Jobs Home Again - WSJ.comLean thinkers have long advocated the benefits of having a shorter supply chain...

I stopped in at my local Starbucks on Sunday morning to get some coffee beans and saw an interesting sign. The signed advertised that...

Time to pick on UPS again (see the "UPS" link at the bottom of the post)... Has anyone else seen the UPS "whiteboard" ad...

Marketplace: Supplier gets dwindling sums for its partsThis story has been in the blog backlog, but it's always an important topic, the idea of...

Flightblogger: Temporary Fasteners Causing Major Problems for 787 ProgramOk, so Boeing isn't using duct tape in their efforts to cobble together the first Dreamliner...

Detroit News ArticleGM, Ford, and Chrysler are frequent targets here for their "beat up the suppliers" approach to supply chain management. Here's some...

Big pieces of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner arrive | Seattle Times NewspaperThis is really Kevin Meyer's issue at Evolving Excellence, but I can't resist blogging...

For some context, here are my complaints about UPS ads from earlier today and from last year. Thanks to the "create your own whiteboard" feature...

The UPS Whiteboard. What Can Brown Do For You? These "whiteboard" ads with the guy with the long hair (Mark Fields would be proud!) drawing...

Paul Pressler's Fall From The Gap:Saw this in Business Week yesterday:"As part of the supply chain revamping, Pressler also tinkered with the way the...

Coping With Disaster - 1/30/2007 - Manufacturing.NetHere's another article with the theme of how "just in time" (JIT) is too risky for supply chain...