The images and stories coming out of Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake that struck on Tuesday are simply heart wrenching. Tens of thousands of people are feared dead and upwards of 3 million people are in need of medical, housing, or other assistance. The only silver lining in these types of disasters is to see the outpour of support from other countries around the world. At a time… Continue reading
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Back in November, I conducted a series of think tanks at The Logistics & Supply Chain Forum, organized by Richmond Events, on maximizing the value of 3PL-customer relationships. Forty-three logistics and supply chain executives, from various manufacturing and retail companies, participated in these sessions. ARC also conducted a web survey, with the support of Richmond Events, on the same topic. More than 100 logistics and supply chain executives… Continue reading
In 2006, I interviewed 22 companies that had implemented or upgraded a Warehouse Management System (WMS) solution at a single site or across many sites. These interviews clearly suggested that the architecture of the solution affected its Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
I looked at the type of WMS solution that was implemented—traditional configuration versus Business Process Modeling (BPM) configuration. The latter should really be described as “micro BPM”… Continue reading
The focus for Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) has been passenger cars, specifically cars used for commuting. General Motors, for example, plans to come out with the Chevy Volt in 2011. The idea is that you plug in the car overnight and then you can drive it for up to 40 miles. After that, the Volt kicks over to a gasoline-powered generator that can extend the range for hundreds… Continue reading
In a Harvard Business Review blog posting yesterday, Roger Martin , the Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in Canada and the author of The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage, explains why most CEOs are bad at strategy. Here is an excerpt of what he writes:
The two most fundamental strategic choices are deciding… Continue reading
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