The IBM Study (Accessed February 2009) points out that visibility and risk are important concerns of supply chain managers. The summary of the report suggests that companies seem to be more in touch with their suppliers than their customers when it comes to aligning supply with demand. More bluntly the buy side and the sell side have little clue about what’s developing on either side of the firm’s value chain.
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From Culture’s Consequences to “Project Match” – IBM needs to add home country fixed costs
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What types of B2B and Supply Chain jobs will the stimulus package create ?
(Note: This post of Feb 9, 2009 refers to the 2007-8 stimulus package) We have been trying to figure out the kind of opportunities that might come up from the stimulus package – particularly in the B2B and Supply Chain areas. I think there will be plenty of opportunities in these areas if you start looking at what the stimulus is planning to do.
What can suppliers learn from job seekers and job keepers ? Understanding “value” contribution
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Will Budweiser change?
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Small business,gas prices and the Internet
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Booming choices in CRM,SCM,ERP- executing “benefit of the benefit”
var gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”); document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src=’” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”)); var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-xxxxxx-x”); pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview(); When I walked through the exhibitor booths at the ISM conference, I was struck by the rather large number of software vendors who were trying to explain how their software would "solve"Continue reading “Booming choices in CRM,SCM,ERP- executing “benefit of the benefit””
The Conceptual Age – reporting from ISM 93rd Conference St. Louis
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Happy Earth Day -“Green” Value Chain and Clorox
Today is "Earth Day" and here is to wishing readers a very happy earth day! The Earth day movement has an interesting timeline and there is much to celebrate in terms of the progress we have made globally. However, much needs to be done. I had written about how B2B folks can help with greeningContinue reading “Happy Earth Day -“Green” Value Chain and Clorox”
Outsourcing call centers – an ethics question?
I recently bought a Dell computer and during the buy process I needed to call and it was a US salesperson. In fact, the Dell website was very careful in guiding US customers in the early part of the buy process to US persons, or at least US numbers. You guessed it ! The personContinue reading “Outsourcing call centers – an ethics question?”