Tag: Supply Chain
What Can Brown Do? They Dumb It Down For Us
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...
Cost vs. Nimbleness at The Gap
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...
Does Lean Increase Supply Chain Risk?
Coping With Disaster - 1/30/2007 - Manufacturing.NetHere's another article with the theme of how "just in time" (JIT) is too risky for supply chain...
Boeing’s "Elegantly" Screwed Up Supply Chain
I was waiting on Evolving Excellence to post on this, so read their post first, but I had to chime in (original WSJ...
Boeing’s Beer Game
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...
Harley helps Suppliers, and even Competitors
JS Online:Toyota's relationship with vendors is an important link in its successHere is a really nice column written by the CEO of a Harley...
Common Sense on Offshoring and Lean
Democrat & Chronicle: BusinessLet's hope this becomes the trend, rather than indiscriminate offshoring of manufacturing work to China. This is the second article...
