North Carolina State University Poole College of Management

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Rob Handfield, Professor at North Carolina State's Poole College of Management and Bank of America Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management.

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Rob Handfield, Professor at North Carolina State's Poole College of Management and Bank of America Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management.

With Hurricane Harvey making landfall entire warehouses full of products, as well as significant links in the global supply chain, could be affected, this raises the issue of supply chain risk once again and what role analytics has in creating managerial insights into such events.

A program to audit suppliers across multiple tiers of the supply chain is an important first step. That process begins with a supplier code of conduct which provides a baseline for evaluating a supplier’s basic labor and human rights policies.

The management team at Biogen Idec knew they had to transform the supply chain to cope with increasing volume and complexity at this biotech company. Beginning with a detailed gap analysis, they launched a comprehensive transformation program that addressed factors as varied as vendor continuity and purchase order processing times, drawing from sourcing best practices. The overhaul to date has proved to be a resounding success.

This study is a reliable source of information for the review of current planning priorities, future strategic plans, benchmarking, gap analysis, and a basis for dialogue and discussion in the logistics community.

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