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Archive for the ‘Supply Chain Management’ Category

Top 25 Supply Chains

By Splatty • Aug 11th, 2008 • Category: Supply Chain Management

AMR Research recently released the 2008 version of the world’s top 25 supply chains. The intent of the research report is to identify demand-driven leaders. AMR research defines those leaders as those companies that come closest to the Demand-Driven Supply Network (DDSN) Level 4 (Orchestrator) description.
The rankings for the top 25 are based [...]



WTO trade talks in Geneva fall apart

By SwizStick • Jul 29th, 2008 • Category: Supply Chain Management

The U.S. is blaming China and India for refusing to cut farm and industrial tariffs. As usual, ShopFloor.org is all over the story. They have links to numerous news articles here. They have excerpted a statement from the President and CEO of their parent organization, NAM, here:
The “Special Safeguard Mechanism” demanded by China and [...]



Exports and Free Trade Agreements contributing positively to the economy

By SwizStick • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: QuickNews, Supply Chain Management

We probably don’t do as good a job as we should when it comes to trumpeting exports and talking about international trade items, but luckily ShopFloor.org is there to pick up our slack. They have a number of recent posts about the positive effect trade is having on the overall U.S. economy.
First off is [...]



A Global Provider

By Splatty • Jul 9th, 2008 • Category: Misc Logistics, Supply Chain Management

I am currently knee deep in a global RFQ for a company with logistics requirements out of and into virtually every major region of the world. After delving into competitor data for the RFQ, I discovered that the company is currently using a variety of different 3PL providers with some of the regions [...]