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Category Archives: competitiveness
AI Use trends across businesses – who is using it, and how are they improving productivity ?
Analysis of a survey of over 1.2 million firms (NBER # 32319) in a paper titled “Tracking Firm use of AI in Real Time” suggests that the fraction of firms reporting use of AI grew from 3.2% to a projected … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Capacity, competitiveness, consumer, Cost, Service Operations
Tagged Capacity, competition, Cost
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Will customers pay more for ethical sourcing of chocolate bars ?
An article in the Wall Street Journal on June 3, 2024 titled “A U.K. Grocery Store Committed to Paying Farmers More for Cocoa” (https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-u-k-grocery-committed-to-paying-farmers-more-for-cocoa-chocolate-bar-sales-skyrocketed-9977794b) describes a price increase for chocolate bars at Waitrose from 2 pounds to 2.20 pounds, with … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, competitiveness, Coordination, Cost, Global Contexts, labeling, logistics, Prices, Sustainability
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Did Boeing favor “Speed over Quality” ?
An article in the New York Times (March 28, 2024) titled “”‘Shortcuts Everywhere’: How Boeing Favored Speed over Quality” describes examples of monthly production rates of the 737 Max increased from 42 in 2017 to 52 in 2018, suppliers pushed … Continue reading
Posted in Capacity, competitiveness, Cost, delivery, logistics, manufacturer, supplier, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged competition, Cost, Quality, Reliability, Supply Chain
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Did Large Grocers use their size to get better delivery volumes during the Pandemic ?
An article in the Wall Street Journal (March 21, 2024) titled ‘FTC Finds Large Grocers Used Size to Stock Shelves During the Pandemic” describes claims that large grocery retailers demanded stricter delivery requirements and levied fines on suppliers who did … Continue reading
Posted in Capacity, competitiveness, Cost, logistics, Operations Management, retailers, supplier
Tagged Capacity, Covid, FTC, grocery, logistics
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Dynamic Pricing in restaurants and Impact
An article in the Wall Street Journal on March 10, 2024, titled ” Surge Pricing is coming to More Menus near you”, describes dynamic pricing at restaurants to reflect demand increases, estimated to increase revenues between 4 and 6%. The … Continue reading
Posted in Capacity, competitiveness, consumer, Cost, Operations Management, Prices, Service Operations, Uncategorized
Tagged dynamic, prices, restaurants
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Are apparel brands responsible for minimum wage levels in Bangladesh?
An article in the Wall Street Journal (November 6, 2023) titled “The Workers who make your clothes want higher pay. Who should pay up?” describes the demand by workers in Bangladesh for higher wages, $205 per month, as against the … Continue reading
Posted in competitiveness, Cost, fairness, manufacturer
Tagged competition, Consumers, Cost, manufacturing, Supply Chain
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Organic Cotton certification fraud
An article in the New York Times ( February 13, 2022) titled “That Organic Cotton T-Shirt May Not Be as Organic as You Think”, describes the certification challenges for organic cotton in India. Despite commanding $ 25 to $ 46 … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, competitiveness, consumer, labeling, product
Tagged agriculture, Apparel, certification, Collaboration, organic, prices, yield
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Managing small firm supply chain pressures
A Wall Street Journal article (February 22, 2022) titled “Worried About Inflation and Supply Constraints? Try Being a Small Business”, describes the longer supply lead times, how higher prices and higher demand, yet lower bank credit access. The article claims … Continue reading
Posted in Capacity, competitiveness, delivery, disruption, manufacturer, Operations Management, Prices, Supply Chain Issues, technology
Tagged delays, lead time, price, Supply Chain, wages, working capital
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Hardware Chain Growth through the pandemic
An article in the Wall Street Journal (August 16, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/yxuaxu64) describes the impact of the pandemic on hardware chains such as Home Depot and Lowes. From cancelling customer attracting, but low margin, promotions to ensure social distancing, to reordering … Continue reading
Posted in Capacity, competitiveness, congestion, consumer, Coordination, Cost, logistics, retailers, supplier, Uncategorized
Tagged hardware, mgmt5612020, pandemic, Retailers, stockouts
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The benefits of recycling robots to enable recycling efficiency
An article in techcrunch.com, titled “Recycling robots raise millions from top venture firms to rescue an industry in turmoil”, describes challenges faced by US recycling companies as a result of China’s lowering of the contamination threshold for recyclable content combined … Continue reading
Posted in Capacity, competitiveness, Cost, productivity, recycling, Sustainability, technology
Tagged automation, garbage, recycling, robots, separation
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Global Supply Chain Musings 