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Monthly Archives: May 2014
Surging prices for railcars as demand runs up against supply shortages
An article in the Wall Street Journal (May 30,2014) titled “Driller’s Pain is Railcar Owner’s Gain”, describes 33% price increases for tank cars, 50% increases for cars hauling sand and 40% increases for grain hoppers. These price increases reflect the … Continue reading
Posted in Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged Capacity, Cost, Demand Surge, Growth, railcar, regulation, Risk, Supply Chain, transport
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Volvo’s concept of “Roam Delivery” that deliveries online orders to your parked car
An article in BloombergBusinessweek (February 27, 2014) titled “Volvo wants your parked car to accept deliveries”, describes a system that would permit a one time key option to open parked cars to deliver packages to Volvos. Online shoppers would place … Continue reading
Posted in Global Contexts, Service Operations, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged cars, Cost, Customers, Ecommerce, remote access, Risk, Volvo
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Will drone ships become a reality anytime soon ?
A report in Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-25/rolls-royce-drone-ships-challenge-375-billion-industry-freight.html) on February 25, 2014, titled “Rolls Royce Drone Ships Challenge $375 Billion Industry”, suggests that drone ships controlled by land based captains can disrupt existing maritime shipping. By eliminating crew quarters and associated services, ships … Continue reading
Posted in Global Contexts, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged Capacity, Cost, drone ships, human error, regulations, Risk, Supply Chain, transport, unions
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The supply chain for cordovan leather and shoe prices and availability impact
An article in the Wall Street Journal on May 24, 2014 (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303468704579572141307216318?mg=reno64-wsj) titled “Cordovan Shoes for Men Play Even Harder to get”, describes the over $2400 price points and six month wait times for cordovan leather shoes. The leather is … Continue reading
Posted in Global Contexts, Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged Capacity, Consumers, cordovan leather, Cost, lead time, manufacturing, Retail, Risk, Suppliers, Supply Chain
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Is Amazon using Pre-order levels as a tool in negotiating higher margins from publishers ?
An article in the Wall Street Journal on May 23, 2014 (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303749904579580052135901452?mg=reno64-wsj) titled “Amazon-Hachette Dispute Heats Up”, describes a complaint that no pre-orders for books by J L Rowling at Amazon.com’s website were being taken, while other sites continue to … Continue reading
Posted in Ecommerce, Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged Amazon, availability, books, Consumers, Coordination, Cost, margin, pre-orders, publishers, Supply Chain
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Panasonic’s plans to move production back to Japan
An article in the Financial Times (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b22e772a-e1a2-11e3-9999-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz32YPzdZCV) titled “Panasonic considers bringing production back to Japan) describes the weak Japanese yen (which has fallen 20% since 2012 against other currencies) improving the economics of production of rice cookers, washing machines and … Continue reading
Posted in Global Contexts, Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged Capacity, Cost, Currency, Design, Japan, Panasonic, regulation, Risk, Supply Chain
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Can Walmart get store customers to deliver online orders ?
An article published by Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/28/us-retail-walmart-delivery-idUSBRE92R03820130328) titled “Wal-Mart may get customers to deliver packages to online buyers”, describes an idea where store customers could sign up to deliver orders to customers in their route in return for a discount on … Continue reading
Posted in Ecommerce, Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged Capacity, Consumers, Cost, crowdsourced, delivery, Ecommerce, instore customers, Retail, Risk, Supply Chain, transport, WalMart
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Will “botsourcing” bring manufacturing back to the US
An article in the Harvard Business Review Blog Network (http://blogs.hbr.org/) titled “Robots are starting to make offshoring less attractive” describes how use of automation and robots is increasing the attractiveness of US manufacturing. Foxconn’s decision to build iphones in Pennsylvania, … Continue reading
Posted in emb2021, Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged automation, botsourcing, Capacity, Cost, emb2021, Global, Insourcing, manufacturing, Outsourcing, robots
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Nike’s water footprint across the supply chain and reduction efforts
Nike’s Materials Sustainability Index discussion (http://www.nikeresponsibility.com/report/content/chapter/water) focuses on the 217 billion gallons of water consumed across its supply chain, with 7% generated by raw material production and cotton accounting for 87% of that use. A focus on reducing the absolute … Continue reading
Posted in Global Contexts, Supply Chain Issues, Sustainability
Tagged Apparel, Cotton, Design, footprint, Nike, raw material, Suppliers, Supply Chain, Sustainable, Water
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Solar Roadways hopes to charge cars as they run on roads
A company called Solar Roadways (http://www.solarroadways.com/intro.shtml) claims to have a prototype installation of solar panels embedded in roads that can charge cars as they drive. Given that vast road network that can be harnessed with embedded solar panels, the company … Continue reading
Posted in Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues, Sustainability
Tagged Capacity, Cost, Design, Infrastructure, solar roadways, Supply Chain, Sustainable, transport
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