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The Dead of the (traditional) Supply Chain

Early March, Industry Week published an article, titled " The Dead of the Supply Chain ", arguing that the supply chain as it has traditionally been defined is no longer feasible. Gone are the days when supply chains were linear, static, in...

Published 04-07-2009 7:50 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Supply Chain, Visibility, Simulation

HP Supply Chain - Procurement Risk Management

I had promised last year to focus some time on describing best practices in the HP Supply Chain and how they helped making the company more responsive. Today I want to focus on one, called Procurement Risk Management (PRM) that has been widely publicized...

Published 01-08-2009 8:33 PM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Supply Chain, Risk management, Supplier, Procurement, Innovation

Introduction

Welcome to our new team blog. We are members of the global Manufacturing & Distribution Industry team and spend a vast amount of time working with both customers and HP’s own design and supply chain teams worldwide. In that process, we discovered...

Published 06-30-2008 8:12 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Experience, RFID

Collaboration, let's look beyond the tools

Two weeks ago I was asked to run a workshop on collaboration at an event in China. Based on some of the ideas I shared in an earlier blog , I developed the content of the workshop. What daunted on me, listening to people in the audience, is that both...

Published 08-18-2009 10:10 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Collaboration, Web 2.0, Supplier, ecosystem, hub

New ways to collaborate, build a virtual community

Earlier in the year, I was asked to organize a summit for some of our key customers. The objective was to share with them some key thought leadership and start a dialogue around a number of topics including sustainability, cloud computing and innovation...

Published 07-07-2009 9:13 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Collaboration, Web 2.0, business, Social Networking, thought leadership, Virtual, Community

Culture and the Supply Chain

In my previous post, I spoke about the tangibles and intangibles of Supply Chain Collaboration , but intentionally did not address one element, the cultural aspects of Supply Chain Collaboration. Companies have increased the outsourcing of their manufacturing...

Published 11-09-2009 10:10 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Collaboration, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, outsourcing, ecosystem, culture

Collaboration and Web 2.0

Yesterday I had the opportunity to listen, during a webinar organized by Accept Software, to Don Tapscott speaking about Innovation and how Web 2.0 was affecting the way companies innovated. In particular, he highlighted how the arrival of the younger...

Published 08-08-2008 4:58 PM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Collaboration, Supply Chain, Web 2.0

Carbon Footprint, you know yours?

Two weeks ago at the green Supply Chain conference in London, Carbon Footprint was at the center of the discussions. And one of the topics referred to extensively was how to calculate carbon footprint. It’s actually a very good question and numerous efforts...

Published 07-09-2008 3:21 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Supply Chain, Green, Carbon, WWF, Carbon Footprint

The Oil price changes behaviors

Last week I was traveling through Asia, which gave me ample time to look at CNN. One morning the TV in my hotel room was providing background noise as usual, when I got attracted by an interesting piece of information. There was a Thai farmer plowing...

Published 08-04-2008 9:43 AM by christianverstraete

When carbon initiates the debate ....

About two months ago, I wrote an entry for this blog, labeled " BOS and BOC, two new acronyms to get used to ". I was actually far from imagining this was going to be the entry that received most feedback, both through the blog, but also through...

Published 10-09-2008 3:02 PM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Carbon Footprint, BOC, BOS

Building Flexibility in the Supply Chain

The other night I was looking at CNN. As many of you probably know, in these financially troubled days, they visualize the evolution of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. During my one hour watch, I saw the DJIA at +198 and at -456, and about every other...

Published 10-27-2008 9:35 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Collaboration, Supply Chain, Visibility, End-to-end, SCOR

Can social networking replace business travel?

When mentioning social networking in a business context, I often get a grin or a smile. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube never added any value to the business I am told. And this last fact may be right, but it does not make social networking irrelevant for...

Published 03-05-2009 11:57 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Collaboration, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Gen Y

The Tangibles and Intangibles of Supply Chain Collaboration

The latest recession has gotten a profound impact on many supply chains and forced rethinking strategies . In a quest to reducing costs, many have diminished safety buffers, established lean thinking, and redesigned their flows. In that process they have...

Published 11-02-2009 11:38 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Collaboration, Supply Chain, Lean, Supplier, Procurement, thought leadership, Community

RFID in air transport

In the transportation sector, RFID has been looked at for a while, IATA has a dedicated web presence with some good information. There has been a number of pilots in the logistics industry, for example FedEx has been a long standing advocate of active...

Published 07-13-2009 6:08 PM by guillaumeoget

Filed under: RFID transport

Practical considerations for cloud computing

There is currently a lot of attention being focused on Cloud Computing, but what does this mean in practical terms? HP's definition of Cloud Computing is in terms of globally available, scalable, and flexible services, which can be subscribed to on...

Published 07-23-2009 11:20 AM by Ian Cole

Filed under: Cloud, security, multi-sourced IT, IT management

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