Walk into any furniture store in the US and almost all products are made in China. You order anything and the boxes arrive with instructions and you do as best as you can. I , for example, have a desk with a hutch that I could not install very well and just did not wantContinue reading “Crib Recall – New Product Development meets Supplier Involvement”
Category Archives: Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)
NECON 2007 my Knowledge Based Services – Low Cost Country Sourcing talk
The NECON Conference is a great event and will be will be inaugurated by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley with a whole lot of great speakers. NECON is a collaborative initiative of the Boston and North Shore Chapter of APICS ,The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, the CSCMP New England Roundtable, the NEContinue reading “NECON 2007 my Knowledge Based Services – Low Cost Country Sourcing talk”
Dell available in Wal Mart – end of pure online business models?
Ever since I saw some Dell computers in my local Wal-Mart, I have been well, shocked! Shocked because like so many others, I have believed that Dell had a unique end to end supply chain that linked its customer preferences directly to its supply chain partners through a very visible and transparent global supply chainContinue reading “Dell available in Wal Mart – end of pure online business models?”
Toy recall , tire recall and the supply chain
Tell me frankly- if you have children are you worried about brain damage caused by lead paint from toys ? If you changed a tire recently, did you look for the "Made in" label – discreetly but anxiously.Globalization is really catching up with everyone and I feel bad for the supply chain managers at MattelContinue reading “Toy recall , tire recall and the supply chain”
Figuring out supplier-customer relationships
I enjoyed the article by Dr. John Gattorna in the Supply Chain Digest based on his book Living Supply Chains. John Gattorna obviously has years of experience and therefore is rightly incredulous as to why organizations both on the selling side and on the buying side, don't take care of their good suppliers and goodContinue reading “Figuring out supplier-customer relationships”
So what is the big deal with “Sterling Service Contracts” ?
Well for one, the new Sterling Service Contracts , gets linked to many of the categories that I blog about! And that is a lot of categories… Some of the things that Sterling Service Contracts will do includes, and I quote from Sterling’s press release: START QUOTE: Storefront capabilities that provide customers and partners withContinue reading “So what is the big deal with “Sterling Service Contracts” ?”
John Seely Brown to join John Hagel at Deloitte Technology and Strategy Center
Just as things were slowing down for the summer I read the exciting news that John Seely Brown is joining John Hagel as Co-Chairman at the Deloitte and Touche Technology and Strategy Center. Readers of this blog might remember John Hagel ‘s great book Net Gain which talked about communities in 1997, a full decadeContinue reading “John Seely Brown to join John Hagel at Deloitte Technology and Strategy Center”
Supplier Relationship Management
I guess it was my particular managerial experience with high value packaging lines involving major installation, servicing and material supply that made it natural for me to look at SRM and CRM as pretty obvious things to do even in the "round" world ( as opposed to the flat world ). Frankly, as any systemContinue reading “Supplier Relationship Management”