I came across a white paper from PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) called “Seizing Opportunity: Linking Risk and Performance”. In one place, the paper highlights a “global automotive manufacturer” that was “experiencing significant losses due to a key risk in its supply chain: supplier bankruptcies.” The company faced the direct costs of those failures, as well as the “indirect costs derived from the poor product quality, unreliable supply, and management distraction” that… Continue reading
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Back in May, I wrote a piece on how transportation procurement is “hot” right now (plus a follow-up piece called “Transportation Procurement: Another Viewpoint”). A couple of weeks ago, I gave a keynote presentation at a transportation management seminar organized by Manhattan Associates and CSC for executives in the Boston area. Terry Norton, VP of Transportation Lifecycle Management at Manhattan Associates, presented some interesting data on… Continue reading
I recently received a newsletter from Lehigh University’s Center for Value Chain Research that showed the American Marketing Association’s (AMA) definition of “marketing” right next to the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) definition of “supply chain management.” Here are their definitions:
AMA – Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers… Continue reading
Categories : Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Logistics Trends, Retail, Supply Chain Planning
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Last Wednesday, the World Trade Organization released its annual report highlighting trends and statistics in global trade (see “World Trade Report 2009”). The WTO is forecasting a 10 percent decline in world merchandise trade this year (the WTO had predicted a 9 percent decline back in June, so their outlook has darkened). World merchandise trade slowed down significantly in 2008, growing only 2 percent in real terms, compared to… Continue reading
The National Private Truck Council (NPTC), a U.S. trade association focused on the interests of companies with private fleets, conducts an annual Private Fleet Benchmarking Survey. This survey has three goals: (1) to validate private fleet performance based on comparative peer data; (2) identify areas of improvement and opportunity; and (3) identify the significant trends affecting private fleet operators.
In many cases, benchmarking data is difficult to use—i.e… Continue reading
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