Founding Supply Chain Management Review Editor, Frank Quinn Retires - “It’s Been a Great Run and in thinking about those whom I’m indebted to for the success of SCMR over 16 years, there is one constituency that must rank first on the list - you, the reader.”
The key question that supply chain professionals are asking these days is, What can we do to maximize the ROI from our technology investment? This article provides some practical answers from the experts. It also presents the results of a survey detailing how well practitioners are actually doing in getting the most from their investment.
“The Seven Principles of Supply Chain Management” provides a clear and compelling case for excellence in supply chain management, the insights provided here remain remarkably fresh even ten years after its original published date.
Brad Kerr, Senior Director, Supply Chain Management Applications, Oracle Corporation and Michael Pearcy, Senior Manager, Capgemini discuss fulfillment best practices as well as case studies featuring companies that have successfully deployed Oracle supply chain solutions to address their distributed order management and fulfillment needs.
Companies that embrace social tools will have another dramatic advantage. As the supply chain talent gap worsens, the more socially-minded companies will be able to attract the best and most innovative minds of the next generation—a generation that has always approached learning and communication in the context of social networks.
Are you “Ready for the Future?” It’s a complex question, one that’s best addressed in parts. One part certainly has to do with the managerial and leadership skills needed to succeed in the job going forward. In their feature article on tomorrow’s leadership challenges, Edgar Blanco and Chris Caplice of MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics argue that a first step in developing the necessary skills is to understand that the skills themselves will change.