The management systems community
6th Mar 2009 by Alex Briggs
If the general public wants an example that makes ISO 28000 relevant, they need look no further than NASA. In this Houston Chronicle article, the acting administrator of NASA told the US Congress yesterday that some of the cost overruns from the space agency stem from counterfeit parts inadvertently installed on space craft.
14th Jan 2009 by Alex Briggs
Dell, Zara, Victoria’s Secret and Dyson are all household names. Professor Richard Wilding,one of Europe’s leading supply chain experts,
talked to www.businessassurance.com about what these brands did to get it right in their supply chain and about how they have set
examples that have changed the way that global supply chains operate today.
Here is a link to the case study video.
Here is a link to the entire 5-part Supply Chain video podcast series.
13th Jan 2009
According to a recent article, David Simchi-Levi, a professor of engineering systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, suggests that there are several broad strategies shippers can take, including greater flexibility, redundancy, risk pooling and strong network planning.
Event: 8th Jun 2009 – 10th Jun 2009
The European Supply Chain and Logistics Summit (SCL Europe 2009) is the only conference and networking event to help you uncover the right supply chain solutions over the next 12-18 months
19th Dec 2008 by Alex Briggs
This Naked Capitalism post is all about the evidence that continues to gather out there about the global slowdown in container shipping.
5th Dec 2008 by Alex Briggs
Episode 3 of the www.businessassurance.com Ethical Supply Chain Video Podcast series features Hewlett-Packard’s Karl Daumueller, Program Manager, SC SER Lead Auditor, Global Procurement Services. This interview was conducted at the Ethical Supply Chain Summit, Berlin Germany, October 16, 2008.
The video can also be found here .
11th Nov 2008 by Alex Briggs
Frances Way, Supply Chain Project Director for the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), talked to us about the CDP’s Supply Chain Project. This is the second episode in a four part series. The interviews for this video podcast series were conducted at the Ethical Supply Chain Summit in Berlin.
Frances shared some of the key supplier insights that the CDP have gathered in their work with the world’s leading global brands, as well as the role that verification plays in the data that the CDP collect on global supply chains.
The video can also be found here .
6th Nov 2008
A new 3PL Logistics study says ‘green’ supply chains are essential for future business success yet the majority of logistics executives are unwilling to spend the money to make it happen.
24th Oct 2008 by Alex Briggs
Next week will see the first episode of the www.businessassurance.com Ethical Supply Chain Video podcast series. Interviews with supply chain experts from Hewlett Packard in Germany, Marshalls in the UK, The Global Social Compliance Programme and the Carbon Disclosure Project will be featured in a four part series.
The first episode will be launched next Monday, October 27th, with each of the interviews conducted at the recent Ethical Supply Chain Summit, held in Berlin.
22nd Sep 2008 by Alex Briggs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a proposed rule to reduce the practice called “port shopping,” or trying to gain entry at different ports when a potential import has already been rejected. The F.D.A. requires such foods must be exported or destroyed.
The rule would require denied imports to bear a label that would read, “United States: Refused Entry.” The rule would also implement a provision of the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002.
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