Topic: Supply Chain

Global Supply Chain Management: Shifting Strategies

The U.S. and European Chapters convened to discuss challenges and new strategies in global supply chain management, given the financial and economic v...

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Strategic Information Management under Leakage in a Supply Chain

Krishnan Anand is Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research s...

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Ubiquitous Communication: Tracking Technologies within the Supply Chain

The article examines tracking technologies in the context of a case study of an integration project at a major retailer, focusing on the business case...

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Mastering the Supply Chain

Supply chain management is the new critical competence for minority- and woman-owned businesses. This article set out to develop a road map for the ma...

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Minority Business Enterprises Mastering the Supply Chain

This paper sets forth the business case for how Minority Business Owner’s can grow their companies, and cope with the challenges of national and...

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Align Technologies Case Study
Aligning the Supply Chain

Align Technology, makers of the highly successful orthodontic treatment Invisalign, was in the midst of a transition from a start-up venture to an est...

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Supply Chain Management: Technology, Globalization, and Policy at a Crossroads

The forces of globalization and technology are changing supply chains. In many cases, the supply chains are literally disintegrating. Product desig...

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Biogen Business School Case Study
Biogen-Idec: Growing a Customer-Focused Supply Chain

Biogen CEO Jim Mullen was taking the biotech firm from a research-focused business model to a more customer-centric enterprise. This case looks at his...

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Best Practices for Service Organisations

Increasingly, consumers want to save time in every facet of their lives. So when they buy a product,  they want their local electronic, clothing or ...

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e-Business and Supply Chain Management

The web is having a significant impact on how firms interact with each other and their customers. Past stumbling blocks for supply chain integration ...

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Linking the Demand and Supply Chains

Not too long ago, companies in nearly all sectors of the U.S. economy were faced with excess inventory and capacity. Whether that inventory and capac...

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Garden.com – At the End of the Runway

In the etailing gold rush of 1999, Garden.com was celebrated by both the dot.com media and the traditional business press as the quintessential virtua...

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Supply Chain Synchronizing Through Web-Centric Product Content Management

In the drive to improve supply chain performance, managers in diverse industries have achieved substantial gains by sharing information. Much of the ...

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