Browsing: Supply Chain

There has been a lot of buzz about women over the past couple of weeks because it is women’s history month. In fact I was asked to provide some input to Supply & Demand Chain Magazine on the role of women in Supply Chain which ended up placing me on a list of female supply chain leaders. I was encouraged to see 28 women being honored BUT I know that there are MANY more out there – many of which are my amazing female clients that I have had the honor to work with.

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The Mpower Group is excited to announce it’s CEO, Dalip Raheja, will be a keynote presenter for two IACCM webinars, Identifying and measuring risk in the supply chain and contracting processand Implementing a risk strategy. Webinars will be on January 15th and January 22nd, respectively. The Mpower Group is in the business…

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Manufacturing in Asia (China, India, Indonesia, etc.) is no longer a slam dunk for U.S. companies. There are many factors to consider when deciding where to manufacture and the analysis required is not that easy. You need to look at everything from taxes, regulations and currencies to culture, fair labor practices and quality/safety standards to supplier networks, skilled labor, infrastructure and everything in between.

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At a recent planning call with some of the members of the Next Practices Xchange for their upcoming conference, I was asked to come up with the list of concerns that leaders in the community (Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain, etc. etc.) had. This was to identify the major risks that are facing the community so that a relevant agenda could be developed. I pushed back at the members and got them to acknowledge that we would be talking about only those issues that they knew about or had identified. What about all those that they had not?

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