This question became a reality earlier this month for customers of New Vine Logistics, a provider of wine-shipping services for leading winemakers. According to an article in the San Francisco Business Times, New Vine “abruptly” suspended operations on May 29th, laid off most of its employees, and informed clients over the weekend (nice!) that it was no longer receiving or processing orders. According to an article in… Continue reading
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Categories : Logistics Outsourcing, Logistics Service Providers, Supply Chain Risk Management
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I teach the supply chain management course at Northeastern University’s Executive MBA program, and this year I included a relatively new case study in the syllabus: “Crocs: Revolutionizing an Industry’s Supply Chain Model for Competitive Advantage by Michael Marks, et al. The case was published in June 2007, and it highlights how Crocs developed an “extremely flexible supply chain” that allows it to “adjust to changes in the… Continue reading
I received a “food for thought” email yesterday from Giles Taylor, a friend of mine and president of Trans-Solutions, a transportation consulting company. Here is an excerpt of his email:
“Do customers want speed or service? It seems like UPS and FedEx have created a market for fast delivery, when most of us want consistent delivery. Has it gotten ridiculous with UPS offering 2nd day AM service? There’s
Professor Barry Keating of Notre Dame, coauthor of the leading college textbook on business forecasting (which actually has more buyers from businesses than from college students), was gracious enough to talk to me recently. The topic was using macroeconomic data to adjust forecasts down for coming recessions, or up when economies begin to grow again.
One of the points he made is that companies and forecasters in particular… Continue reading
“The arrival of swine flu in the United States exposed gaps in the supply chain that delivers medication, masks, and even testing swabs to hospitals and doctors’ offices – shortcomings that could prove vastly more worrisome if a deadlier strain returns in the fall, officials say.”
So begins an article published this week in The Boston Globe by Stephen Smith. Although the U.S. health system responded very well… Continue reading
Categories : Logistics Outsourcing, Logistics Service Providers, Pharma & Life Sciences
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