There is no shortage of supply chain and logistics conferences. If you can attend just one, the most important one is CSCMP. The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Global Conference; September 21 – 24 in San Antonio,…
Last week on Talking Logistics, I had a very thought-provoking conversation with Tony Martins, VP of Strategic Services at Halo Pharmaceutical. Tony is a unique supply chain executive — he not only sees the potential value of social networking in…
In a previous posting, I wrote about how Kraft leverages downstream data to drive supply chain collaboration, based on a talk given by Ron Volpe, Customer VP of Supply Chain at Kraft Foods, at the CSCMP Annual Global Conference last…
In 2011, Dal-Tile and Transplace first discussed the idea of a transportation collaboration that would leverage Transplace’s market visibility to pair low-density freight shipper partners with Dal-Tile’s high-density ceramic tile shipments. The clear objective was to utilize transportation capacity more…
During her welcome remarks at the 2012 Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Conference in Atlanta, Nancy Nix, chair of the CSCMP board of directors, said that companies should judge the value of supply chains going forward by…
CSCMP’s New England Roundtable recently visited Walgreens’ New England distribution center near Hartford, Connecticut. Following a presentation by Scott Sylvester, the Distribution Center Manager, we received a tour of this highly-automated facility. The material handling systems in the DC are…
