Jan. 30 2015
According to the Urban Dictionary when someone tells you to get real, they want you to get a reality check and to stop behaving as though you're living in a fantasy world. The Pew Research Center said... View More
Aug. 27 2014
In Part 1 of this series, we began looking at the five basic CHAAF components required for supply chain resilience success... View More
April 22 2014
Good Supply Chain Governance ensures that all necessary resources are in place and that individuals or teams are working on agreed priorities, progressing to agreed time scales, and delivering the required... View More
March 5 2014
Tribal knowledge is loosely defined as unwritten know-how that is required to do your job. It is often referred to as knowledge “known” yet undocumented, such as information that has been verbally... View More
July 31 2013
Every once in a while, a person comes along in your career that influences your professional life as a mentor, or a colleague, or a friend; in my case, he was all three. His name was Les Sandler, and he... View More
Feb. 28 2013
The simple fact is that in today’s longer global supply chains, product moves over greater distances and across more multinational borders than in the more localized supply chains of the past. This... View More
Aug. 7 2012
Avoid being surprised! That's the basic rule of negotiation. And as Dizzy Dean, the great Baseball Legend, once said: "If you can do it, it ain't braggin!" Successful negotiation depends on knowing what... View More
June 29 2011
Based on Profit Point’s recent Transportation Survey of industry leaders, 90+% of shippers identify cost, service, and finding adequate transportation capacity as their continuing priorities in... View More
May 3 2011
"He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress." was articulated by Anwar el-Sadat. I wonder what his observations... View More
Oct. 24 2010
I have observed a fairly disturbing trend: Many organizations are heavily engaged in reengineering or change management efforts that are focused on best practices, benchmarking, balanced scorecards, metrics... View More

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