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Continuous Improvement -- A Better Way of Developing New Products Involve your suppliers and operations people in the product development process at the very earliest stages.   |
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Census Of Manufacturers: Too Many Supply Chains Are Failing To Integrate As supply chains lengthen globally, companies need to focus on tying together their suppliers and customers. |
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August 1, 2007
Ralph Keller |
Continuous Improvement -- What Does Enterprise Excellence Look Like? To get an idea of how good your facility is, start by asking: Would you buy products from your own plant? |
IndustryWeek
April 18, 2012 |
Commitment and Training are Essential for a Lean Supply Chain Manufacturers are now looking beyond their four walls for opportunities to drive out waste. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2007 |
Viewpoint -- Technology Enables Supply Chain Innovation At Sun Sun Microsystems uses a "one-touch" supply chain. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2008
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Continuous Improvement -- How to Combat the Credit Crunch Manufacturers in search of capital are harvesting the cash that's tied up in their inventories. |
IndustryWeek
August 19, 2009
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Mitigating Supplier Risk Three simple rules to follow to lower risk factors in your extended supply chain. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2009
Herb Bradshaw |
The Big Picture: Leadership Insights from the IW Best Plants -- Thomas & Betts Discovers the 'Voice of the Customer' By focusing on what the customer wants, T&B has built strong, mutually beneficial relationships with its suppliers. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2007
Ralph Keller |
Continuous Improvement -- It's Not Just the Shop Floor Continuous improvement efforts should encompass all areas of an organization, not just production. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 29, 2005
David Bovet |
Risk and Reward in Supply Chain Management While there are no easy answers -- and, in most cases, no "right" answers -- there are frameworks for thinking about how to manage risk more effectively. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Derailed From The Lean Track Watch out! Just because your company has 'gone lean' doesn't mean everything will run smoothly. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 12, 2005
Kevin O'Marah |
Driving Innovation from the Supply Chain More and more, direct customer input is driving every aspect of innovation, from the overall product concept to the timing of the launch to packaging and delivery. In this emerging world of demand-driven innovation, the supply chain plays a crucial part. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2009
David Blanchard |
Just In Time -- Lean You Can Believe In The bad news just keeps on coming for manufacturers, but don't give up on continuous improvement. |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2008
David Blanchard |
Just In Time -- If Supply Chain Management is the Answer, What's the Question? Supply chain worst practices are becoming an epidemic throughout the industry. |
IndustryWeek
November 18, 2009
Steve Minter |
Supply Chain Risks Material costs, supplier stability cited by manufacturers. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2007
Traci Purdum |
Supplier Performance Monitoring: By The Numbers Survey reveals how companies monitor and address supply chain partners. |
IndustryWeek
June 22, 2011 |
Value Stream Segmentation Focuses on Customer Needs By analyzing and segmenting market requirements, a business that is truly demand driven will optimize individual value streams to match customers' unique needs. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2007
Brad Kenney |
Continuous Improvement Gets a Green Makeover Don't get hung up on the enviro-hype. Reducing waste, emissions and pollution is simply good business. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2009
Nick Zubko |
Cutting to the Core Consolidating suppliers can help manufacturers add value to their supply chain, but not without a good plan to make it work. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2007
David Blanchard |
Manufacturing's Biggest Challenges -- IndustryWeek's 2007 Salary Survey Responses If you come to work everyday worrying about global competition, finding and keeping skilled labor, raw material shortages, and the quality of your product, you're not alone. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2007
David Blanchard |
Common Sense: Measuring Your Supply Chain Measuring your supply chain has become a competitive advantage for manufacturers wanting to improve their operational performance. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2006 |
Outsourcing's Next Steps When it's best not to chase cheap labor. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Sources of Strength With globalization forces transforming their businesses, manufacturers are creating more powerful sourcing strategies to control costs throughout the supply chain. |
IndustryWeek
December 16, 2005
Traci Purdum |
Securing A Stellar Supply Chain Only as strong as its weakest link, the supply chain can make or break manufacturers. |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2007
Jonathan Katz |
Just-In-Time Remains Justifiable Worried about how bird flu, hurricanes or civil unrest could impact a lean supply chain? Despite such inherent risks, the benefits of just-in-time manufacturing may still be too much to pass up. |
CIO
August 1, 2005
Susannah Patton |
The Perfect Order Achieving the Holy Grail of "perfect orders" involves more than just plugging data into software. Companies must also restructure their supply chain processes from end to end. |
IndustryWeek
January 19, 2011 |
How to Win the Energy Race Overcoming risks to the supply chain will be key to energy and green initiatives. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 4, 2003
Jonathan Byrnes |
Supply Chain Management in a Wal-Mart World Here's a supply-chain dilemma: Now that you've learned how to do business with Wal-Mart, what do you do with everyone else? |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2006
Jonathan Katz |
Census Of Manufacturers -- Drifting Apart Manufacturers are moving farther away from their partners and, in the process, becoming less integrated. |
IndustryWeek
July 21, 2010 |
Offshoring May Have Extended the Recession Companies with far-flung supply chains tended to react slower to the global recession. |
IndustryWeek
February 15, 2012
David Blanchard |
10 Steps to Identify and Prevent Resource Scarcity The threat of metals shortages is putting manufacturing supply chains at risk. |
National Defense
August 2004
Zylstra & Thompson |
`Virtual Supply Chains' Could Help Bridge Manufacturing Gaps The Defense Department has immediate needs for thousands of products for which no domestic supplier can be found. |
IndustryWeek
November 16, 2011
David Blanchard |
Thwart Cargo Thieves With Covert Technology Hewlett-Packard uses high-end high-tech to secure its supply chain. |
CFO
March 1, 2012
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Not Made in America Smaller companies are increasingly using offshore suppliers. Here are some notable risks to watch out for. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2007
Jonathan Katz |
Continuous Improvement Technology Market To Double Manufacturers adopt programs that fit their lean initiatives. |
IndustryWeek
June 17, 2009
Steve Minter |
Can GPOs Help Ease the Pain? As manufacturers look for cost-cutting that won't cripple them in a recovery, group purchasing organizations let them "swing a bigger bat." |
IndustryWeek
November 1, 2001
John S. McClenahen |
Supply Chain Under Scrutiny Manufacturers increase buffer stocks, shorten distribution distances, and contend with enhanced security... |
IndustryWeek
August 19, 2009
Jonathan Katz |
The Green Ultimatum What happens when manufacturers tell their suppliers to go green - or else? |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Who's On HP's Short List? High-tech giant releases the names of its top suppliers to emphasize its supply chain visibility. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2009
Nick Zubko |
Who's Keeping Score? Collaborative development and meaningful metrics can unlock the potential of supplier scorecards. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2007 |
Driving Growth By Controlling Grey Market Leakage Grey Market goods are a component of piracy that is completely within the control of manufacturers. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 5, 2004
Jonathan Byrnes |
Fixing the Healthcare Supply Chain The paradox of healthcare supply chains is that they are the home of some of the best and worst practices in supply chain management. With limited hospital budgets, supply chain inefficiencies consume resources that could be used to bring important therapies into more widespread availability. |
The Motley Fool
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Ron Vlieger |
Boeing: A Wing and a Prayer? Boeing's ability to meet its delivery goals is still up in the air. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2009
David Blanchard |
IndustryWeek's 2009 Salary Survey Comments on Manufacturing's Biggest Challenge: The Economy As part of the IndustryWeek 2009 Salary Survey, we asked the open-ended question: What is the biggest challenge facing the manufacturing industry today? |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2001
Tonya Vinas |
Supply-Chain Strategist Looking for the definitive textbook on multitier-supply-chain management? There isn't one. But there is Jeff Trimmer, who is determined to find and improve upon manufacturing's best practices through the National Initiative for Supply Chain Integration... |
IndustryWeek
December 16, 2005 |
Partners For Life Varian Medical Systems' Value Managed Relationships program helps foster long-term partnerships. |
U.S. Banker
August 2008
Larry Mead |
What Financial Services Can Learn From Lean The gains in the banking industry achieved through eliminating waste and improved customer service after adopting the Lean business philosophy are hard to ignore. |
Food Engineering
September 3, 2007
Jim Getchell |
Globalization: Where in the World is Your Supply Chain? Globalization and outsourcing offer opportunities and risks for US food manufacturers striving to optimize their supply chains. |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2007
Ralph Keller |
Continuous Improvement -- The Need For Standard Work It's virtually impossible to improve a process that is a series of random activities. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2009
Nick Zubko |
The Organized Climb GE takes a big step to improve the flow of information through a complex supply chain. |
