The UPS Whiteboard. What Can Brown Do For You? These “whiteboard” ads with the guy with the long hair (Mark Fields would be proud!) drawing out logistics concepts on a whiteboard are pretty ubiquitous, especially during news shows and sporting…
Paul Pressler’s Fall From The Gap: Saw this in Business Week yesterday: “As part of the supply chain revamping, Pressler also tinkered with the way the Gap brand produced clothing samples. These prototypes had long been made at studios in…
Coping With Disaster – 1/30/2007 – Manufacturing.Net Here’s another article with the theme of how “just in time” (JIT) is too risky for supply chain purposes. This type of article usually pops up in the WSJ about once a year…
I was waiting on Evolving Excellence to post on this, so read their post first, but I had to chime in (original WSJ article here). Here’s another dumb quote the E.E. folks didn’t point out: “Some people may say this…
Boeing to shut down C-17 production Boeing is planning to shut down production of a cargo aircraft. It’s a slightly different lesson than the Ford posting, below. Here, the lead times on A&D items are so ridiculously long (34 months),…
JS Online:Toyota’s relationship with vendors is an important link in its success Here is a really nice column written by the CEO of a Harley Davidson supplier who sings the praises of Toyota’s model of supply chain cooperation. This is…
Democrat & Chronicle: Business Let’s hope this becomes the trend, rather than indiscriminate offshoring of manufacturing work to China. This is the second article now in a short time (here was the first) that talks about companies moving at some…
