Supply chain risk management - Articles - Page 76

Got Cash? Why Not Spend Some on Your Suppliers?

January 14, 2013

As if corporations didn't have enough money sitting idle in their accounts today - now we learn that they've been borrowing aggressively, spurred on by record-low interest rates.

Supply-Chain Risk Management: An Essential Competency

January 10, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

Noha Tohamy, research vice president with Gartner, identifies the proactive strategies that leading companies are using to manage supply-chain risk today.

World Resources Institute Adds Sustainability to Business Analysis

January 9, 2013

World Resources Institute

The World Resources Institute (WRI) has incorporated sustainability into the traditional SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis employed by many businesses.

Tips on Coping with Volatility & Uncertainty

January 8, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

Suresh Iyer, vice president and global practice head with Genpact, shows how companies can remain competitive in the face of increasing volatility and uncertainty in their supply chains.

Planning for Uncertainty in Supply-Network Design

January 8, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

Supply-network design is a hot topic today. Jake Barr, global director of supply network operations with the Procter & Gamble Company, details the reasons why, and identifies the biggest gaps in network-design efforts today.

Turkish Meat Producer Uses RFID to Keep Tabs on Product, Deter Pilferage

January 7, 2013

RFID Journal

Bereket DÃ¶ner, one of Turkey's largest producers of frozen and ready-to-serve meat products, is employing radio frequency identification to track its goods as they are loaded onto pallets, weighed and shipped to customers.

Logistics Service Providers Tackle Market Challenges

January 4, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

When companies encounter a conflict between cost-efficiency and customer responsiveness, something's got to give. Marc J. Heeren, vice president of strategic sales with Damco, lays out the factors involved in striking the right balance.

Expect Greater Investment in Means to Detect, Combat Cyber-Attacks on Enterprises, Report Says

January 2, 2013

ABI Research

The enterprise incident response market is set to see highly dynamic growth over the next few years, totaling $14.79bn by 2017. The reason? The number of malicious cyber agents is rising and they are attacking, hacking, and spying on organizations with impunity.

Supplier Management with PLM-Early Visibility Key to Optimize Sourcing Strategies

January 2, 2013

Chuck Cimalore, CTO and President, Omnify Software

It's no surprise that supply chains are growing in complexity as manufacturers continue to globalize in order to reduce costs and expand their market. With this shift, manufacturers need to take a new approach to managing their supply chains by finding ways to improve communication with suppliers, obtain early visibility into sourcing information and better mitigate supplier risk.

Various Forms of Supply Chain and Enterprise Fraud Expected to Increase in UK and Europe in 2013

January 2, 2013

UKFraud

With more high quality data becoming available to fraudsters than ever before, an economy forecast to contract and the UK's benefits spend reducing, overall fraud levels will continue to increase dramatically across the UK and the rest of Europe, according to UKFraud, a detection company focusing on fraud prevention.