The government has announced that the recession we experienced for several years is officially over; but there still is considerable doubt in the minds of some supply chain managers that it is in fact behind us. In a number of firms layoffs have continued, and unemployment in some areas is higher than we would like.  […]

The presence of risk in the supply chain is not new by any means. In fact, there is some degree of uncertainty in everything we do, either personally or professionally. Lately however, there has been an increasing amount of emphasis placed on risk in the supply chain. In the past month I have seen three […]

In one of his brushes with re-engineering, Dilbert pleaded, “If you let me keep my job, I’ll do the work of ten people. Specifically, it would be the ten people in our strategic planning group. They don’t do much.” When it comes to strategic planning for logistics outsourcing, Dilbert probably could do the work of […]