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Tag Archives: Supply Chain
Private Label growth in US grocery retail and branded goods impact
An article in Bloombergbusinessweek (Nov 28,2011) describes grocery retailers like Safeway and Kroger rejuvenating private label products for antibiotic free meat, frozen pizza, pasta etc. Consultants such as Mckinsey estimate that 75% of customers who try private label brands are … Continue reading
Posted in Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged competition, Consumers, Cost, grocery, Loyal Customers, private label, Retail, Supply Chain
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Walmart’s environmental efforts in China and US retail impact
An article in the Atlantic (December 2011) suggests that 70 % of Walmart’s $420 billion in sales are provided by 20,000 Chinese suppliers. Walmart’s efforts at decreasing waste, pollution etc thus impact its supply chain in China significantly, and increase … Continue reading
Posted in Global Contexts, Service Operations, Supply Chain Issues, Sustainability
Tagged Capability, Capacity, China, Collaboration, Consumers, Cost, Global, Supply Chain, Sustainable
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Turkey vs chicken supply chains in 2011
An article in the Wall Street Journal (Nov 22, 2011) describes the impact of demand volatility on chicken and turkey manufacturers. Turkey manufacturers are smaller and spread out, while chicken has a few large manufacturers. While chicken manufacturers expanded given … Continue reading
Posted in Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged Capacity, competition, Loyal Customers, manufacturing, Margins, Suppliers, Supply Chain
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U.S. multinationals global job growth in the 2000s
A Wall Street Journal article (Nov 22, 2011), describes an analysis by the Commerce Department showing that US multinationals cut 865,000 jobs in the US and added 2.9 million jobs in the rest of the world. In the manufacturing sector, … Continue reading
Posted in Global Contexts, Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged Capacity, competition, Consumers, Cost, Efficiency, Global, Growth, manufacturing, Supply Chain
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Expiring Lipitor patent, supply chain impact
An article in the Wall Streeat Journal (Nov 22,2011) describes a plan by Pfizer to sell Lipitor (a cholesterol reducing drug) direct to consumers once its patent expires on Nov 30. Health care plans that have contracted to sell Lipitor … Continue reading
Posted in Ecommerce, Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged Consumers, Cost, manufacturing, regulation, Retail, Service, Supply Chain
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Cargill – matching global supply and demand of agricultural commodities
An article in Fortune (Nov 7, 2011) describes Cargill’s role inmatching global supplies of soyabean, cotton, palm oil, beef and salt from Indonesia, Australia, Argentina and North America to customers. Charter ships are routed to minimize empty miles – as … Continue reading
Slower, larger, less polluting but on time ships
In an interview with Nils Anderson, CEO of Moller-Maersk, in Fortune (Nov 7,2011), he claims that ships have a 50% on time arrival rate. His company is now adding larger but slower ships, which will emit 50% less CO2, but … Continue reading
Posted in Global Contexts, Operations Management, Service Operations, Supply Chain Issues, Sustainability
Tagged Capacity, Cost, Global, ships, Slower, Supply Chain, Sustainable
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A closed loop CO2 Supply chain?
An article in Fortune (Oct 17,2011) describes the mismatch between demand for CO2, its indequate supply in pure form, but its prevalence in the air. Demand for CO2 is from soda manufacturers to make bubbles, greenhouse gases to speed plant … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues, Sustainability
Tagged Capacity, CO2, Cost, demand, regulation, Suppliers, Supply Chain, Sustainable
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The impending demise of vertical integration amongst oil companies ?
An article in bloombergbusinessweek(14 nov, 2011) describes the conundrum faced by Marathon Oil, whose oilfields in Angola and Norway were not close to its refineries and transportation assets. The result, most of the oil the company refined was purchased from … Continue reading
Posted in Global Contexts, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged Capacity, Cost, Global, manufacturing, Outsourcing, Supply Chain
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Making brick and mortar stores like ecommerce sites
An article in bloombergbusinessweek (Nov 14, 2011) decribes worries by retailers regrading an increase in informed focused consumers, a decrease in impulse shopping, and steps to compensate. Pacific Sunwear offers iPads to salespeople to assist consumers with possible clothing combinations, … Continue reading
Posted in Ecommerce, Service Operations, Supply Chain Issues
Tagged Consumers, Ecommerce, Retail, Supply Chain
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Global Supply Chain Musings 