If you were hired as the top Supply Chain Management executive at a company, what would be your top three initiatives to improve the company’s capabilities?
Here is my list:
1. Get the right people on board! You can’t accomplish anything else if you don’t have the right talent. The toughest part of the job will be getting rid of people who don’t have the right skills and attitudes. As… Continue reading
As a Patriots fan, the Super Bowl did not end well for me last Sunday. It was deja vu all over again: a phenomenal catch by a Giants receiver, followed by a game-winning touchdown. But despite the loss and the endless smack talk of my cousins on Facebook, it was a fun and exciting game nonetheless.
There are many plays in the game that stand out for me, especially… Continue reading
The Holidays are a time for giving. My posting today celebrates the best example of corporate giving that I came across in my travels this year. TNT, a large global provider of express deliveries, and ORTEC, a company that provides a logistics optimization and execution platform with advanced planning capabilities, are the two companies whose intelligent giving has helped to make the world a better place to live… Continue reading
We were excited, we were wet, we had stupid expressions on our faces. But nothing could stop us on this particular Sunday in May–nothing.
Last night I found myself in the basement looking through old photo albums, and I came across the one I put together almost twenty years ago after I cycled cross country with my friends Pete and Paul. We had just graduated from college, and instead… Continue reading
Okay, so the title is not true, but JB Hunt or any other large trucking company could make such an announcement in the not too distant future, just like Terry Gou, the CEO of Foxconn recently made. According to a Xinhua News Agency article, Gou said that “Foxconn will replace some of its workers with 1 million robots in three years to cut rising labor expenses and… Continue reading
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