Supply Chain

DynCorp Does Due Diligence

David Isenberg | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Private Military Security Contractors, Labor Trafficking, Subcontractor, Dyncorp, Supply Chain, Contracting Policies, Business News

Dyncorp's new Supply Chain organization, stood up last year, has introduced several tools that are updated regularly to evaluate subcontractors on an ongoing basis.

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Stakeholder Relationships: Key to a Sustainable Enterprise

John Friedman | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Customer Loyalty, Stakeholders, Regulation, Supply Chain, Employee Engagement, Southwest Airlines, Apple, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Csr, Customer Experience, Business News

Each relationship is an intangible asset of the business. As any accountant will tell you, assets can either appreciate or depreciate or hold their value.

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Janet Napolitano: Homeland Security, Economic Security Go 'Hand-In-Hand'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, Global Supply Chain, Cargo, Video, Economy, Davos, Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security, Supply Chain, Janet Napolitano Homeland Security, Dhs, National Press Club, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A top administration official on Monday signaled that the focus of homeland security in 2012 would shift in emphasis to business and the...

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Krugman: Companies That Contribute To Growth 'Don't Exist In Isolation'

The New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 01.27.2012

Read More: Supply Chain, Global Supply Chain, Paul Krugman, U.S. Manufacturing, Chinese Manufacturing, Apple, Germany, China, Business News

Mitch Daniels, the former Bush budget director who is now Indiana's governor, made the Republicans' reply to President Obama's State of the Union addr...

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Demand Planning: Smarter Commerce Keeps You Ahead of Demand (VIDEO)

Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: E Commerce, Smarter Commerce, Smarter Ideas, Supply Chain, Value Chain, Logistics, Inventory Management, Video, Technology News

Smarter Commerce from IBM optimizes supply chain efficiency and business process integration, helping to boost revenue, build loyalty, and keep busine...

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At UPS Worldport, The World Comes Together

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Needham | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Fedex, Ups, Patch Road Trip, Ups Worldport, FedEx Corp, Louisville, Supply Chain, Kentucky, Ups Logistics, Toshiba, Logistics, Dhl, Business News

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Every night, hundreds of workers get on buses and are dropped off here at the UPS Worldport. They spend a few hours putting package...

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Scary Business Plans

Matt Cohen | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Marketing, Supply Chain, Halloween, Musicals, Business, Movies, Business Plan, Vertical Integration, Comedy News

Sweeney Todd is a case study in vertical integration. Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett join forces in a common venture. Specifically, he kills some of his customers and then she bakes them into meat pies. After you're done gagging, consider what this does to their supply chain.

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Technology's Place in Transforming Agriculture

Elizabeth McVay Greene | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Food, Supply Chain, Community Supported Agriculture, Farming, Farmers Markets, Agriculture, Farming Business, Agriculture Business, Agribusiness, Food Suppliers, Food Industry, Business News

The distended relationship between farms and individuals is the fundamental problem in the food system we've inherited. Supply chains and the corporate cultures that house them keep information isolated.

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From Icebergs to Autos, Effects of the Japan Earthquake Are Long-Lasting

John Bates | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Supply Chain, Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, Business Process Management, Honda, Hapan, Japan Supply Chain, Japan Trade, Japan Honda, Business News

Over 70 percent of organizations recorded at least one supply chain disruption in 2010. The earthquake and its long-lasting aftershocks to global supply chains have prompted a complete rethink in supply chain management.

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Agility in Agriculture: Why Farms Will Succeed and Food Corporations May Not

Elizabeth McVay Greene | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Supply Chain, Sustainability, Food, Corporations, Farmers, Organic Food, Sustainable Food, Food Politics, Food News

A farmer and a corporate procurement manager probably agree that it will be harder and harder to force a static basket of consistent, timely products out of the land for years to come. But the two have wildly different capacity to deal with this reality.

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The Lifecycle of a T-shirt

Mattias Wallander | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Recycling, Clothing, Garment Industry, Cotton, Environment, Green News, Environmentalism, Supply Chain, Green Living, Textiles, Pollution, Air Pollution, Shipping, Green News

Do you ever stop and think about what the impact of a t-shirt is on the planet? You'd probably be surprised to learn what's involved in the lifecycle of just one t-shirt.

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OECD: Globalization Has Made Economic Crises More Likely

The Huffington Post | James Sunshine | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: 2008 Financial Crisis, Gas Prices, Mortgage Crisis, Supply Chain, Eurozone-Debt-Crisis, Globalization, John Lipsky, Imf, Greek Debt Crisis, Japanese Earthquake, Oecd, Business News

Advances in communication, information, transportation and trading technology have helped web together nations into interconnected and interdependent ...

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Markets Drop On News Governments Will Collectively Tap Oil Reserves

Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Market, Libya, Dow Jones, Energy-Reserves, Japan Earthquake, Muammar Gaddafi, High Energy Prices, Stock Market, Nasdaq, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Disruption, S&P 500, Video, Business News

NEW YORK - Oil prices crashed more than $8 to a four-month low on Thursday after the world's consumer nations said they would band together to aid...

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Economic Confidence Plummets With Few Signs Of Recovery: Gallup

The Huffington Post | James Sunshine | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Supply Chain, 112th Congress, High Gas Prices, Greek Debt Crisis, Gallup, Japanese Tsunami, Barack Obama, Euro, Video, Business News

Beset by rising gas prices and a stubbornly-high unemployment rate, American economic confidence has suddenly plummeted, according to a new poll. ...

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The 'Surprises' of the Japanese Crisis and the Investment Lessons to Learn

Gemma Godfrey | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Shares, Spurn, Anti-Nuclear, Investments, Sales, Peugeot, Green, Nuclear, Consumption, Business, Power Plants, Merkel, Eu, Nissan, Autos, Politics, Expectations, Bulgari, Bailout, Wealth, Germany, Voters, Kobe, Power Disruptions, Earnings, Fund, Uncertainty, Coalition, Electrical, Stocks, Protect, Money, Earthquake, Lessons Learned, Supply Chain, Demand, Tiffany, Consumer, Investing, Tsunami, Imports, Aftershock, Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, Interruptions, Companies, Tores, Spending, Client, Rescue, Car Makers, Japan, Managers, Great Hashin, Capital, Business News

Surprise consequences to the earthquake in Japan have revealed significant weaknesses in both the worlds of politics and business and from an investment point of view, there are lessons we can learn.

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Japan's Government Needs to Move Quickly

Daniel Wagner | Posted 06.03.2011

Read More: Chernobyl, Japanese Government, Semiconductors, Fukushima, Japan Tsunami, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Nuclear Power, Japan Economy, Supply Chain, Business News

No one can truly know the economic impact of Japan's earthquake because the world has never experienced such a severe natural disaster in an economy so critical to the global supply chain.

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The Best-Drawn Supply Chain You'll Ever See: A Look at How an Industry Evolves

Matt Cohen | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Operations, Supply Chain, Logistics, Scott Mccloud, Business, Value Chain-Analysis, Comic Books, Business News

When drawing supply chains, most people don't bother with more than a fast doodle with boxes. When Scott McCloud draws a supply chain, he takes it to a different level.

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An American Industrial Renaissance?

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.27.2011

Read More: Outsourcing, Suppliers, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Markets, Japan Economy, General Electric, Apple, Japan Tsunami, Industry, Electronics, Labor Standards, Business News

In the sorting out of the wreckage after Japan's earthquake and tsunami, many Americans have begun paying more attention to a phrase they had barely known -- "supply chains."

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Automakers Could Lose More Than Half A Million Cars To Japan Quake

Bloomberg Businessweek | Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: Business News, Supply Chain, Cars, Automobiles, Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, Economic Crisis, Business News

(Bloomberg) -- Global automakers may lose production of 600,000 vehicles by the end of the month as the earthquake in Japan halts assembly lines and w...

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Nearly A Tenth Of Japanese Farmland Affected By Tsunami, AP Says

AP | By JAY ALABASTER | Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: Business News, Supply Chain, Japan Tsunami Farm, Japan, Farmland, Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, Economic Crisis, Business News

SENDAI, Japan -- The rice paddies on the outskirts of this tsunami-hit city are ankle-deep in a black, salty sludge. Crumpled cars and uprooted trees ...

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Brown Shoots

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Japan Tsunami Economy, Swing States, Unemployment, Japan Tsunami, Commodity Prices, Inflation, Economy, Economic Crisis, Supply Chain, Globalization, Federal Reserve, Food Prices, Election 2012, Recession, Obama 2012, Business News

As spring dawns, the economy's green shoots have been trampled once again, first by the economic fallout from Japan's tsunami, and again by rising worldwide commodity prices.

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The Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2010

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wheat Prices, General Electric, Russian Drought, Renewable Energy, Pakistan Floods, Green Business, Tropicana Orange Juice, Kaiser Permanente, China, Zero-Waste, Pepsi, Data, Gm, Bowman Design, Climate Adaptation, Ibm, Cancun Climate Summit, Panasonic, Biomimicry, Unilever, Biofuels, Wal-Mart, Canadian Oil Sands, Trade Barriers, Cotton, Supply Chain, Marks & Spencer, Sony, World Trade Organization, Local Food, Water, Matt Kistler, Rare Earth Elements, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, US Navy, Climate Bill, P&G, Nissan Leaf, Electric Cars, Green News

Here's my attempt to capture the most important stories that affected the greening of business in 2010 and my predictions for the future.

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Eating in Trumps Eating Out

Elizabeth McVay Greene | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Disposable Income, Supply Chain, Farming, Food, Consumers, Csa, Consumerism, Local Food, Farmers Markets, Food News

Americans spend significantly more money on food they eat at home than they do on food they eat out. Supply chains make it nearly impossible for farmers to reach consumers.

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Who Do You Really Pay for Your Food?

Elizabeth McVay Greene | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet, Markets, Farmers, Supply Chain, Food, Consumers, Food Prices, Csa, Farming, Farmers Markets, Marketing, Usda, Food News

Is it any surprise that farmers would seek the closer connection to consumers? Getting food to market has become relatively more expensive, while the share that the farmer earns has dropped off.

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Wal-Mart and H&M Commit to Greening Their Textile Supply Chain

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Water Pollution, H&M, Water, Supply Chain, Fashion, Textiles, Wal-Mart, China, Green News

Big names like Wal-Mart and H&M have the purchasing power to drive improvements all the way up the supply chain. They send a signal to manufacturers that there is a market out there for textiles made using cleaner practices.

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