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 made themselves more vulnerable to variance, while...
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 of making the supply chain truly lean, there is...
The topic of RFID has been approached a few times in this blog. RFID, being a technology, is supporting a number of usage scenarios and its maturity depends on the area we are looking at. Access control and retail and certainly not at the same place. Still the middleware space has changed significantly...
At the end of May I had the privilege to participate in AMRResearch’s Supply Chain conference. During the plenary session several presenters spoke about how they were improving their supply chains, and to my great astonishment, all spoke about the need to improve visibility up and down the eco-system...