Does Inventory Optimisation Always Mean Inventory Reduction?

France, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Greece and Portugal have already proven that more government spending actually slows growth. Why do they want to spend even more? Debt dominos FORTUNE -- The leaders of distressed European...

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It’s the 21st Century, stop using spreadsheets to track performance and make critical business decisions! Electronic spreadsheets were originally developed in the late 1970s as a replacement tool for bookkeeping tasks...

A Hong Kong economist predicted that China’s manufacturing industry will “completely collapse” by 2015 and that the economy will soon follow it.

“Critical Process” as we commonly know is a process or path that takes the longest time for execution or completion. In case of assembly lines this is commonly assessed in terms of the backlog of work for a particular assembly...

Supply Chain Excellence - Why it's now Business Critical - Stewart Kelly - With continued economic uncertainty and increasing global competition, supply chain design and optimization has never been more important to achieve an...

Using Cost Avoidance to Justify Expansion When Operations are Already Lean - Tim Archer - In today's economic environment, managers need newer, more powerful methods of justifying purchase of capital equipment. Attend this...

I interviewed Mike Star back in 2009 where he discussed his views the recession as a real world learning experience for everyone in supply chain. Are his views still valid today? Mike said the recession has given us real,...

The acceleration of Cloud has brought with it a great deal of optimism and advantages to the retail sector, but also uncertainty. Whilst it is believed to be here for the long haul, the impact of Cloud on your IT department -...

See on Scoop.it – lean manufacturing This article quotes Paul Myerson as saying that manufacturers preferred to “lean out within their four walls before working heavily with customers a...