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Tag Archives: Suppliers
Wal-Mart Assortment, gas prices and one stop shopping
A Wall Street Journal article (March 21, 2011) describes adjustments to Wal-Mart’s strategies to increase the number of shoppers who do one-stop shopping at the store. Wal-Mart’s US chief, William Simon, claims that as gas prices increase, shoppers will be … Continue reading
Japanese Tsunami and Supply Chain Disruptions
A New York Times article (March 17, 2011) describes the Japanese earthquake and tsunami and its consequent impact on electricity supply, ports, manufacturing plants and the global supply chain. It describes Texas Instruments as claiming that one of its Japanese … Continue reading
Posted in Global Contexts, Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged Capacity, Cost, Demand Surge, Global, Growth, manufacturing, Suppliers, Survival, Sustainable
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New Rare earth supply chain
An article in the International Herald Tribune (March 8, 2011) describes a new rare earth supply chain. The ore is mined in Australia and concentrated (2/3 of the dirt removed) before it is put in sealed bags inside steel containers … Continue reading
Posted in Global Contexts, Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged Cost, manufacturing, Outsourcing, Rare Earths, Suppliers, Supply Chain
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Recycling Cell Phones and Supply Chain Impact
A Wall Street Journal article (March 5, 2011) describes the growing used cell phone recycling industry. Consumers preferring old models so they do not heave to learn new features, or desiring a lower cost phone, seem to flock to these … Continue reading
Posted in Global Contexts, Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues, Sustainability
Tagged Consumers, Global, Rare Earths, Service, software, Suppliers, Supply Chain
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Electronic Component Suppliers for the iPad but OEMs too
A Wall Street journal article (March 4, 2011) describes an interesting global supply chain issue for electronic component suppliers like Toshiba, Samsung and LG Display (they supply memory chips or screens). These companies supply components used by Apple for their … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Global Contexts, Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged Capacity, Consumers, Cost, Demand Surge, Global, Margins, Outsourcing, Suppliers, Supply Chain
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Commodity Trader Glencore’s role in the global supply chain
An article in the International Herald Tribune (February 27, 2011) describes the role of Glencore, a commodity trading company. Glencore provides raw materials supply to OEMs (ArcelorMittal, Sony, Chevron etc) from raw materials suppliers, managing the risk of weather, price … Continue reading
Posted in Global Contexts, Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged Global, Margins, Reliability, Risk, Suppliers, Supply Chain
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Kidney Transplants – is matching available lifespans of kidney and patient appropriate ?
A New York Times article (February 25, 2011) describes a new proposal for allocation of transplanted kidneys – match the lifespan of the recipient and the kidney. The article describes the fact that in the current system an 18 year … Continue reading
Posted in Operations Management, Service Operations
Tagged Capacity, Cost, Efficiency, Suppliers, Supply Chain
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The growing Supply Chain impact of an Intel Chip Flaw
An article in the New York Times (February 7,2011, B10) describes the growing impact of a flaw in the Series 6 chipset called Cougar Point which had been shipped in early January. Once Intel announced the problem – that about … Continue reading
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Tagged bottleneck, Global, recall, Suppliers, Supply Chain
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Are Boeing Dreamliner delays history ?
A New York Times article (January 27,2011, B3) quotes executives at Boeing being optimistic that production of Dreamliners can be ramped up significantly over the next three years. The company claims that problems for the first few planes were due … Continue reading
Posted in Operations Management, Service Operations, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged Capacity, Collaboration, Cost, Suppliers, Supply Chain
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Rethinking Federal Regulations and supply chain impact
An article in Bloomberg Businessweek( January 24,2011) analyzes a recent statement by President Obama to examine burdensome regulations. Consider a few regulations and ponder their impact. The Department of Defense plans to rethink outsourcing of maintenance – now critical tasks … Continue reading
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