Why a Low Price Sourcing Strategy Will Doom Your Lean Efforts
A sourcing strategy that focuses on price reductions can disrupt the supply chain and derail a lean and Six Sigma initiative.read more
View ArticleSmall Firms Are Better Partners than Holding Companies
If you want to work with a supplier who will work with you as a partner so both parties can benefit, you have a better chance of this with smaller, family-owned businesses than large holding...
View ArticleA Sustainable Supply Chain: It Begins with Trust
Suhas Apte and Jagdish Sheth, authors, The Sustainability Edge Many companies are struggling with establishing sustainable supply chains because of their unproductive attempts at enforcement through...
View ArticleA Smarter Approach to Procurement
David Schannon, Sam Thakarar and Klaus Neuhaus, partners, Bain & Company Successful companies achieve greater savings by creating a collaborative partnership between procurement and the...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Suppliers
When an OEM offered supplier development assistance to two key suppliers, their responses were as different as day and night.read more
View ArticleTrue Leaders Are a Couple Steps Ahead of Everybody Else
People want to play on a winning team and want to work for a manager that sets them up for success. read more
View ArticleThe Case for Civility in Manufacturing
A pure Free Market strategy isn’t always in the best interests of our country.read more
View ArticleAn Extraordinary Supplier Performance that Will Leave You Buzzing
A stinging tale of two suppliers—one that got too greedy, and another that went above and beyond to generate positive buzz.read more
View ArticleHow to Keep Your Supply Chain From Killing You, Part 1
Ned Hill, Professor of Public Administration and City & Regional Planning, The Ohio State University’s John Glenn College of Public Affairs Purchasing managers and companies guided by lowest...
View ArticleBrewing Better Supplier Relationships at Keurig
The coffee maker’s director of procurement talks about making volunteerism mean more than a hill of beans.read more
View ArticleThe Drop Kick Heard 'Round the Plant
Do you really need an MBA to be an effective leader?read more
View ArticleNobody Likes a Bully
Placing a bully in a position of high authority is never a good thing for a company, its employees, its suppliers or its customers. Nobody likes a bully.read more
View ArticleHow To Keep Your Supply Chain From Killing You, Part 4
Ned Hill, Professor of Public Administration and City & Regional Planning, The Ohio State University’s John Glenn College of Public Affairs Recent industrial history offers numerous examples of...
View ArticleWho’s Taking Responsibility for Your Supply Chain?
Manufacturers are being held to a higher standard of corporate social responsibility, and are developing new best practices to adapt their supply chain ecosystems accordingly.read more
View ArticleWhat in the World Has Happened to the MBA?
The MBA degree has largely been cheapened as a credential, as it’s a poor substitute for real-life career experience.read more
View ArticleTop 25 Supply Chains of 2017
IW's annual look at the Top 25 (plus 3) Supply Chains reveals what the best manufacturers and retailers are achieving as they manage their global operations.read more
View ArticleHow a Supplier Views a Customer
A look at the six different ways that an OEM customer might be seen by an individual supplier.read more
View ArticleCan We Really Trust Health Insurance Companies?
There’s nothing healthy or caring about the way corporations have left their employees at the mercy of healthcare insurance companies.read more
View Article1 Billion Tons of Iron Ore Are Headed for China This Year
Asia’s top economy has been pulling in ever-greater volumes of low-cost ore to meet resilient demand from mills, which have benefited from rising steel prices in the second quarter. read more
View ArticlePratt & Whitney Faulted as Biggest F-35 Engine Deal's Cost Rises
The Defense Department disclosed estimates of $43 million in cumulative cost overruns for materials, which Pratt & Whitney will have to absorb if they persist.read more
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