Global Supply Chain Management

Discovering Tomorrow's Supply-Chain Leaders

May 29, 2014

Rob Dugas, VP Supply Chain, Chick-fil-A

Your Next Perfect Employee or Job Is Waiting

May 28, 2014

SupplyChainBrain

SupplyChainBrain and JobsInLogistics have joined forces in 2014 for the specialized purpose of:

Is There Really an Integrated Asia-Pacific Supply Chain?

May 28, 2014

Manufacturing.net

Supply chains in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region pose a unique set of challenges for the organizations that rely upon them. With a land mass four times the size of Europe, transportation and distribution issues are complex and challenging. The region's diversity, in terms of regulations and political climate, as well as its sheer size makes it difficult to think of an integrated Asia-Pacific supply chain.

Magic, Management and Logistics

May 28, 2014

Joe Turner, Chief Impossibility Officer, TurnerMagic.com

Sustainability at H&M: Long Road Traveled, Long Road Ahead

May 27, 2014

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

If you're still not convinced that sustainability can be a big marketing tool for global brands, then take a glance at the latest "Conscious Actions" report from Hennes & Mauritz AB - known to clothing shoppers around the world as H&M.

How Does Your Data Grow?

May 27, 2014

Peter Marotta, Enterprise Data Administrator, Verisk Analytics

Today, businesses of all stripes are sowing the seeds of Big Data everywhere. And if we think Big Data is big, just think how that data multiplies and branches out when rooted in the multifaceted field of supply chain management.

Is Keystone XL Pipeline Project, Stalled for Years, About to Become Irrelevant?

May 27, 2014

Business Week

When TransCanada first proposed the Keystone XL pipeline in 2008, the company hoped it would be done by 2012 and begin carrying heavy crude from the Alberta oil sands in Western Canada down to the U.S. Gulf Coast. Six years later the pipeline remains in limbo, stymied by Department of State reviews, route adjustments, lawsuits, environmental and economic studies, and (most important) an Obama administration that appears truly divided on the issue. Last month the State Department announced that no decision would come until after November's midterm elections.