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Supply chain management: What kind of rose?
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 24/04/2013
» As William Shakespeare wrote in his classic, Romeo and Juliet, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet."
Finance and manufacturing (Re)Gaining respect
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 16/01/2013
» We're surprised to note that nowhere in the flood of articles about the new year have we seen anyone mention the numeral "13". Do people think that mentioning it would be akin to letting a black cat cross our path? Is it because we have had so much bad luck in recent years that they either think it cannot possibly get worse, or do they not want to tempt fate? We're not sure, but we remain confident in the future because of the positive way in which supply chain management (SCM) is evolving.
'Power to the people' the order of the day at beijing meet
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 07/11/2012
» We attended the TRACC Integrative Improvement Conference in Beijing last week. It was an excellent programme, featuring many presentations by practitioners who talked about their own companies' continuous improvement (CI) journeys.
Oswald duvel's shining legacy
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 10/10/2012
» We have often written here about continuous improvement and mentioned one especially good platform called TRACC. TRACC has been developed by a South African company called CCI which, in the person of Oswald Duvel, many years ago established a presence in Asia as a commitment to bring operational best practices here.
Supply chain asia forum in singapore comes of age
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 12/09/2012
» The annual Supply Chain Asia Forum was held two weeks ago in Singapore and it was a great event, as always. The main sessions did a good job of addressing the theme, "Innovation and Talents in Supply Chain: Missing Links for Success", and were well attended by some 300 professionals.
Resiliency is key to SCM's contribution
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 04/07/2012
» We wish to reintroduce ourselves this week. After almost 10 years as Weekly Link, beginning today we are simply, The Link. The editors have asked us to change a little bit, cutting back on frequency to every fortnight but with a bit more space each time, so we can discuss things in more depth. We are pleased to continue in this new vein.
'Gartner supply chain top 25' continues to show the way
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 20/06/2012
» Gartner Research recently hosted its annual supply chain conference, and, based on the many things we have seen published as part of it, it continues to be in our estimation the landmark event of the supply chain management (SCM) year.
Tthe continuous improvement journey
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 16/05/2012
» Last week, we introduced the notion of an Integrative Improvement System, as defined by Competitive Capabilities International (CCI) in South Africa. This, as we discussed, is truly the way to achieve sustainable improvement in an organisation, all across the supply chain.
Supply chain trends and challenges in Asia-Pacific
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 08/02/2012
» The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 report for 2011, which we wrote about in the middle of last year, contained a number of timely conclusions as well as four themes for leaders and recommendations, based on the findings of the study.
Celebrating supply chain slavery
Business, Barry Elliott, Published on 01/02/2012
» We are again drawing from the richness of supply chain blogs, this time of a prolific fellow named Pete Abilla who operates from shmula.com. He is a major proponent of the Lean/Six Sigma movement and is particularly adept at presenting down-to-earth, practical everyday examples of these approaches.