Global Supply Chain Management

Is "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) Managing You?

September 19, 2012

Martin Jack, Chief Technology Officer, Barcoding, Inc.

Industry Experts Discuss What BYOD Is Doing to Your Enterprise!

September 19, 2012

Martin Jack, Barcoding, Bruce Willins, Motorola, Matthew Montgomery, Verizon

How Do You Decide Which RFID Strategy to Employ in Your Organization?

September 18, 2012

Industry Week

The advancement of technology, combined with demand from customers, has continued to fuel interest in radio frequency identification tagging systems. Yet for all the attention paid to RFID, data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in logistics shows a majority of organizations have not adopted an RFID tagging strategy.

How SCM Education Is Changing With the Times

September 18, 2012

SupplyChainBrain

John L. Kent, director of logistics and supply-chain management programs at Missouri State University, offers a look at how the educational curriculum in supply-chain management programs is changing - and what employers are looking for in new graduates.

How Many Chinese Companies Can Leap from China to Playing on the Global Stage?

September 18, 2012

BCG Perspectives

The era of easy growth for Chinese companies is coming to a close. Sales growth is slowing, while margins and profitability are under pressure. To reach the next level, Chinese companies need first to overcome a more challenging economy at home, where the days of relying on low labor costs, price competition, and a giant domestic market to fuel growth are over.

Lenovo May Be Top Dog in China, But Its Image Is Old Hat

September 18, 2012

Fortune

How does a Chinese company make itself cool to locals? For Lenovo, the answer is to appear less Chinese.

Can Chinese Companies Compete on a Global Playing Field?

September 17, 2012

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Considering the astonishing growth of China's economy over the past decade, it should come as no surprise that 73 Chinese companies showed up on this year's Fortune Global 500. That's up from 11 just ten years ago, but given that fact that the nation saw average annual GDP growth of 9.91 percent between 1979 and 2010, and is now the world's second largest economy, one might ask why more Chinese companies aren't on Fortune's list.

Research Released on Speech Analytics, Industrial Networking, Supplier Risk Management, Other Areas

September 17, 2012

Aberdeen

Reports from the Contact Center/Marketing Effectiveness, Manufacturing, Product Innovation + Engineering, and Supply Chain Management research practices of Aberdeen are now available.

Uncertain Economy Affects Retail Supply Chain

September 17, 2012

STORES

As retail supply chains grow increasingly larger geographical footprints, they become more susceptible to risk. Retailers have long prepared for natural disasters and geopolitical events, but ongoing financial crises and uncertainty has them even more concerned.

The Retail CIO's Impossible Job of Making Everybody Happy

September 17, 2012

Storefront Backtalk

Why is it that the same retailers who will replace a finance clerk's desktop like clockwork every four years will let their POS linger for eight, nine, 10 or more years? Why is it that data centers can be consolidated and servers can be virtualized but e-commerce still operates as a separate channel? The answer is simple: politics.