Supply Chains Rock

JULY 11, 2011

'Who said supply chains are boring? Whenever I tell a friend, colleague or family member about my job as soon as the words "supply chain" are muttered I immediately see glassy eyes followed by a yawn or two. Little do they realize that every time they discard or recycle a carton of milk they are completing the end of the supply chain cycle. Without supply chains consumers would be stuck using products that they had to make or grow with their own two hands.

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Logility

JULY 14, 2011

Whenever you set a goal, your natural inclination is to achieve it; swipe a line through it, and be done. Supply chain management is full of goals such as mounting pressure from the top to get costs down quickly. We tend to grab this bull by the horns with the intent of showing demonstrable results. But, sometimes grabbing the bull may be short-sighted, and to really achieve the goal we might need to first step back.

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Supply Chain Network

JULY 27, 2011

'Purolator, Canada’s leading integrated freight and parcel solutions provider, is pleased to announce that it was recently awarded Logistics Quarterly’s 2011 Third-Party Logistics (3PL) Sustainability Award for demonstrating leadership in sustainable supply chain practices. Purolator received the prestigious award at Logistics Quarterly’s Sustainability Study and Awards Symposium held in Toronto on July 14. “We live and work in every neighbourhood in Canada,” said Tom Schmitt, President an

Third Party Logistics 101

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ModusLink Corporation

JULY 21, 2011

'This post, written by Matthew Gardner, originally appeared on the Sustainserv blog. Sustainserv is a global CSR and sustainability consultancy. Sustainability in Your Supply Chain. In the past few years, we have witnessed a wholesale shift whereby businesses in just about every sector realize that sustainability is a topic that they must engage with in a credible and transparent manner.

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EcoVadis

JULY 11, 2011

TriplePundit recently hosted a series on Stakeholder Engagement in CSR. EcoVadis CSR Analyst, Nicole Sherwin, weighed in on what true supplier engagement should look like. Supplier Engagement: Shifting from Defensive to Collaborative. Companies are only beginning to uncover the best practices for engaging suppliers on sustainability. With suppliers providing the major inputs for the operations of businesses, it would only make sense that companies would be eager to engage this specific stakehold

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Supply Chains Rock

JULY 3, 2011

'Who said supply chains are boring? Whenever I tell a friend, colleague or family member about my job as soon as the words "supply chain" are muttered I immediately see glassy eyes followed by a yawn or two. Little do they realize that every time they discard or recycle a carton of milk they are completing the end of the supply chain cycle. Without supply chains consumers would be stuck using products that they had to make or grow with their own two hands.

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Supply Chain Network

JULY 10, 2011

'Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) announced today (June 30th) that Daniel Myers will join the company in September as Executive Vice President, Supply Chain. Myers, 56, will lead the functional groups that make up the company’s integrated supply chain, including Procurement, Manufacturing, Engineering and Customer Service and Logistics. He succeeds David Brearton, who is now Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

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ModusLink Corporation

JULY 22, 2011

'Every supply chain professional has had to make decisions with imperfect or not enough information at one time or another. While we would obviously prefer to have more information, and the best quality, this is a common issue that comes with the cost of collecting, maintaining, reporting and analyzing huge amounts of data. Companies have invested millions of dollars in systems and processes to track supply chain activities through their own operations.

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ModusLink Corporation

JULY 8, 2011

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ModusLink Corporation

JULY 27, 2011

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