Supply Chain Management Blog - All Comments

re: RFID in air transport

traslochi milano, — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:33:02 GMT

I was just thinking about Air Transport and you've really helped out. Thanks!

re: Culture and the Supply Chain

christianverstraete — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:33:39 GMT

I want to keep the debate open, and this is why I am publishing comments such as Dave's. However, please note HP has no links and does not endorse the enterprises that wish to comment while pointing out their activities.

re: Culture and the Supply Chain

Supply Chain Management — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:38:27 GMT

I have to second Dave.

As a solution for successful supply chain management, sophisticated software systems with Web interfaces are competing with Web-based application service providers (ASP) who promise to provide part or all of the SCM service for companies who rent their service.

Cargo Logistics Network tries to provide such solutions.

re: Culture and the Supply Chain

Dave — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:29:02 GMT

I agree with you,

it is important to identify the differences in culture and it's one of the risks in the supply chain.

It's very important to manage the risks involved in the supply chain before they harm the organization.

Minet Technologies offers a unique risk management workshop that can help to reduce costs and increase efficiency of the supply chain.

re: A Podcast on Cloud for Manufacturing

M.Murali — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:58:00 GMT

Checking the cloud for manufacturing out

re: The Tangibles and Intangibles of Supply Chain Collaboration

Sneha — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:37:23 GMT

The problem with the folks like Google & Yahoo is that they have created many tools which have been loosely coupled. The challenge with such a solution is that the the information gets locked into multiple silos. With Google Wave they are trying to integrate all the conversations (discussions) but what would be truly desirable is a platform built form ground up using social networking at the base and business apps on top of it. I have tried Injoos Teamware (www.injoos.com) and found it captures both informal and formal knowledge like documents in one single workspace on the cloud.

re: The Tangibles and Intangibles of Supply Chain Collaboration

Nick Parnaby — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:24:03 GMT

Very enlightening post. We are focused on "Community Cloud" based solutions for the communication and collaboration aspects. However, without the intangibles you point out there is no need for them. It's very interesting from my perspective to see the stark differences in how different industry verticals have addressed the intangibles. In discrete manufacturing and aerospace I have seen these address far more than in industries such as Retail and Distribution/Wholesale, where there is more "arms length" activity.

Cheers

Nick Parnaby (Founder & COO, RollStream Inc)

Social comments and analytics for this post

uberVU - social comments — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:06:20 GMT

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re: CDP and Supply Chain Carbon Reporting

Selva — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:38:11 GMT

This will make companies who more accountable for their Carbon foot print

www.balanceco2.com

re: The Dead of the (traditional) Supply Chain

christianverstraete — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:17:18 GMT

I'm glad you bring this up. You are right, we sometimes forget part of the world. However, in many fields I have seen emerging markets jumping extremely quickly and moving ahead of the pack, not dragged down by history and past experience. I would not be surprised to see east africa moving very fast in adopting new supply chain concepts and emerge as a player in the world market. Building on the experience shared by others may be the way to achieve this.

re: The Dead of the (traditional) Supply Chain

ABDULLAHI MOHAMED HUSSEIN — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:25:29 GMT

Traditional supply chain philosophy is dead in some parts of the world only! not in east africa where it is actually the current trend prevalent in almost all supply markets; and by extention manufacturing processes.In this concept,manufacturers are using it to maximise production hence fully utilising all resources to create economies of scale.

re: HP Supply Chain: Buy/Sell and Manufacturing Outsourcing

Scott Robbeloth — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:12:52 GMT

How is the component inventory recogniized on HP's and suppliers' financial books?

re: What application should we run in the cloud?

software development company — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:53:55 GMT

That was inspiring,

this list of criteria, on which application(s) should/can be moved to the cloud, is very helpful.

Anyway, thanks for the post

re: Collaboration, let's look beyond the tools

Patricia — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:07:59 GMT

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re: Practical considerations for cloud computing

ricom — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:50:48 GMT

Cloud computing, the dynamic datacenter.

Cloud computing helps to increase the speed at which applications are deployed, helping to increase the pace of innovated networked computing. Service deployed applications; Cloud computing can be provided using an enterprise datacenter’s own servers, or it can be provided by a cloud provider that takes all of the capital risk of owning the infrastructure.

Cloud computing incorporates virtualization, data and application on-demand deployment, internet delivery of services, and open source software. Virtualization enables a dynamic datacenter where servers provide resources that are utilized as needed with resources changing dynamically in order to meet the needed workload.

The combination of virtual machines and virtual appliances used for server deployment objects is one of the key features of cloud computing. Additionally, company’s can merge a storage cloud that provides a virtualized storage platform and is managed through an API, or Web-based interfaces for file management, and application data deployments.

Layered Service providers offering pay-by-use cloud computing solutions can be adjacent to company’s equipment leases. Public clouds are run by third party service providers and applications from different customers are likely to be mixed together on the cloud’s servers, storage systems, and networks. Private clouds are built for the exclusive use of one client, providing the utmost control over data, security, and quality of service. Private clouds can also be built and managed by a company’s own IT administrator. Hybrid clouds combine both public and private cloud models which may be used to handle planned workload spikes, or storage clouds configuration. Dedicated audits for security policies are a must.

The benefits of deploying applications using cloud computing include reducing run time and response time, minimizing the purchasing and deployment of physical infrastructure. Considerations for Energy efficiency, flexibility, simplified systems administration, pricing based on consumption, and most of all limiting the footprint of the datacenter. For further information on virtualized solutions: http://www.shopricom.com