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'True' Collaboration: It's in the Eye Of the Beholder

September 1, 2006

Jean V. Murphy- Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies

Nearly everyone agrees that a synchronized supply chain requires effective collaboration between trading partners, but when it comes to defining what collaboration actually is and how to accomplish it, opinions are all over the map.

How Is Your Supply Chain Performing?

September 1, 2006

It's getting harder and harder to track the performance of suppliers, carriers and processes that make up a global supply chain. Here's how a few successful companies are addressing the problem.

Supply Chain Management: The Perils of Going Global

August 1, 2006

Looking to save buckets of money by manufacturing outside your borders? Poor supply chain management can wipe out much of the cost advantage.

Zemeter Gets Better Performance

June 1, 2006

Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies

Achieving Continuous Improvement in Complex Supply Chains Today

April 1, 2006

Has the march toward continuous improvement come to a halt? Far from it. The idea lives on, under new labels. First of a two-part article.

Greif Fights Soft Market, Rising Costs With Global Spend Control

March 1, 2006

An international acquisition doubles the size of the industrial packaging producer overnight. It meets the challenge with a global spend database.

Startup Blue Sky Logistics Touts Visibility Dashboard

March 1, 2006

Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies

CIOs Will Bear a Heavier Burden of

March 1, 2006

Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies

World's Best-Run Supply Chains Stay on Top Regardless of the Competition

February 1, 2006

Thomas A. Foster, Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies

AMR Research again selects the best-run supply chains in the world. Amid ever fiercer competition, these 25 companies have stayed on top by embracing the concept of demand-driven supply networks. That has produced financial results that make them world-class on any list.