I spent a few days this week at the SAP Insider Logistics and Supply Chain Management 2010 conference. I’ll share my takeaways from this event next week. In the meantime, here’s some of the news that caught our attention this week:
I recently spoke with Ralph Rupert, Director for Unit Load Design at Virginia Tech. If you are not familiar with what a unit load is—I must confess, the term was new to me too—a unit load is “a single item, a number of items, or bulk material which is arranged and restrained so that the load can be stored, picked up, and moved between two locations as a single mass.“… Continue reading
Over the past year, we’ve been discussing how performance-based outsourcing (aka Vested Outsourcing) has the potential to transform 3PL-customer relationships. But can the principles that underpin PBO also transform the way companies procure supply chain and logistics software and the way they work with software vendors?
I believe the answer is yes, but only if software vendors are willing to augment their product offerings with managed services—and if… Continue reading
“Are people who travel in town cars and on corporate jets different—on a psychological level—from you and me? Does the availability of luxury goods ‘prime’ individuals to be less concerned about or considerate toward others?”
The answer to these questions seems to be yes, based on research conducted by Roy Y.J. Chua of Harvard Business School and Xi Zou of London Business School. Sarah Jane Gilbert interviews Chua in… Continue reading
As I’ve mentioned before (here and here), I’ve been researching the ROI associated with consumer goods (CG) companies using downstream data (e.g., POS, store level inventories, and DC-to-store shipments). One of the conclusions that I have reached is that Category Managers get a better ROI from their investments in this area than other consumer goods manufacturers.
Category Management might be new to many supply chain professionals, so… Continue reading
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