Rating Your Milk Supply

Know Your Supply Chain

As goods move from raw material processors through to manufacturers, distributors and retailers, extensive coordination is required throughout the supply chain. Ordering, demand forecasting and inventory decisions at each link in the chain all depend not only an organizations immediate trading partners, but on every link in the supply chain. In the past, there was little coordination among all ...

Safeguarding the Milk Supply

August of this year. During the War period further experience was gained in regard to the milk situation. The Government had to pay closer attention than it had in the past to all questions relating to our food supply, and in this respect milk was not neglected. As a result of the war-time experience those Departments chiefly concerned, the Ministries of Food, of Health and of Agriculture, agre...

T for Your Supply Chain ?

Sunil Chopra is the IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management, and Jan Van Mieghem is an associate professor of operations management, both at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. They are co-authors of Managing Business Process Flows (Prentice Hall, 1999). Professor Chopra also is co-author of Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation (Pr...

Energizing your Supply Chain for e-Commerce

The concepts of supply chain design and management has come to the fore, due to the everincreasing complexity of the systems driving buyer supplier relations in both industrial and consumer based markets. The unprecedented levels of supply chain management complexity are partly attributed to the Internet, through its more recent business acceptance and commercial use. This article is about new ...

Integrating China into Your Global Supply Chain