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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

HP Supply Chain - The concept of Supply Chain Pipes

Commenting to my last post , Mutka asked the question on how HP handles predictability and reliability in its supply chain. I realized that to provide him with a thorough response, I should explain the HP Supply Chain in more details. I have taken the...

Published 11-03-2008 2:05 PM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Postponement, Supply Chain Pipe, channel, HP Supply Chain

A Cloud ecosystem for Inter Enterprise Visibility

As part of HP's latest press release on its partnership with GS1 Canada, HP is announcing the HP cloud computing ecosystem for manufacturing industries. This is a real exciting development. Let me explain why. In many entries of this blog, I have...

Published 08-24-2009 12:03 PM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Collaboration, Web 2.0, Cloud, Innovation, Social Networking, ecosystem

HP Supply Chain - Inventory Driven Costs

To continue on my series describing the HP Supply Chain, I'd like to introduce a concept called "Inventory Driven Costs", described for the first time in an Harvard Business Review article with the same name. This concept allowed us to completely...

Published 11-24-2008 8:12 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Inventory, Demand, Varience, HP Supply Chain

Sustainability, don't demotivate us

In an earlier blog, I mentioned that I was going to present at the European Conference of the Supply Chain Council, which I did by now. The presentation preceding mine was on sustainability and I really looked forward to it as I was looking for understanding...

Published 10-17-2008 3:23 PM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Carbon Footprint, Sustainability, Supply Chain Council

BOS & BOC, new acronyms to get used to?

Green, sustainability and SER, are terms that appear increasingly in our publications and conversations. They draw our attention on the fact our products interact with their environment and potentially harm it. That impact needs to be evaluated from the...

Published 07-13-2008 9:48 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Green, Carbon, Sustainability, Substance, BOM, CO2, BOP

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: Buy/Sell and Manufacturing Outsourcing

Over the last months, I have shared with you a number of concepts HP has implemented in its Supply Chains to reduce costs, improve responsiveness and mitigate risks. In this blog, I'd like to share another one, called buy/sell, that focuses mainly...

Published 06-08-2009 11:29 PM by christianverstraete

Filed under: HP Supply Chain, Cost Reduction, Procurement, outsourcing, Price Masking

Could Community Clouds improve Supply Chain Collaboration?

As President Obama announces a cloud computing initiative for the US , it is interesting to note that in their definition of Cloud Computing , the federal government includes an interesting deployment model, called community cloud. In their definition...

Published 09-18-2009 1:17 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Collaboration, Supply Chain, Cloud, Community

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

HP Supply Chain: HP wins the Franz Edelman Award

On April 27 th , HP was presented with the Prestigious Franz Edelman Award for contributions in breakthrough analytics, transforming a complex product portfolio. Since 38 years, the Franz Edelman competition, run by the Institute for Operations Research...

Published 05-04-2009 1:13 PM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Supply Chain, Inventory, ROI, Award, Edelman, Operations Research

Lean and Risk Management, Compatible or Antagonistic?

I'm currently preparing a presentation to be given at the European Supply Chain Council conference in Budapest in early October. The subject will be how to balance efforts to establish a lean supply chain with risk management. Indeed, in the process...

Published 09-29-2008 2:43 PM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Supply Chain, Lean, Risk management

We need the End-to-End view

I ran into a blog entry on Cnet the other day. It was entitled "LCD making worse for the environment than Coal?". This got me thinking. LCD televisions and screens are often seen as "green", eco-friendly, because they consume less...

Published 07-18-2008 1:09 PM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Green, Substance, CO2, LCD, End-to-end, lifecycle

HP Supply Chain - Dynamic Replenishment

It's been a while since I last spoke about the HP Supply Chain and what we put in place to manage uncertainty and variance in the current economic conditions. Most of the best practices I have been discussing have actually been in place for a number...

Published 03-16-2009 8:01 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Collaboration, HP Supply Chain, Procurement, Dynamic Replenishment

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