Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrainMore from Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrainForecasting & Demand PlanningToo Many SKUs? How Clorox Avoids Supply-Chain ChaosLife in the laundry room used to be so simple.November 4, 2013Service Parts ManagementSKU Proliferation: Is There a Cure for the Disease?Retail marketers love complexity. The more variations of a product they can sell, the happier they are. How else can they command all that shelf real estate in big-box stores? How else can they promote innovation? And how else can they drive their supply-chain managers crazy?October 28, 2013All LogisticsAchieving Sustainability: From Waste Management to Light BulbsSustainability can involve a global effort to calculate carbon emissions across the entire supply chain. Or it can mean the changing of a few light bulbs.October 21, 2013Inventory Planning/OptimizationWhy Quality Is More Than a Passing FadTotal Quality Management. Quality circles. Quality with a capital "Q." It all seems so...20th Century.October 14, 2013Forecasting & Demand PlanningKimberly-Clark's Epic Demand-Driven Journey"Frankly, we thought we were a lot better than we were." Could those be the scariest words in business?October 7, 2013SC Planning & OptimizationBridging the Talent Gap in Supply-Chain ManagementDespite gradual improvement since the summer of 2009 - the official end of the Great Recession - the U.S. unemployment rate remains unacceptably high. But don't tell that to companies in search of supply-chain talent.September 30, 2013Logistics OutsourcingTaking a Snapshot of U.S. ManufacturingSurveys are snapshots. They don't tell you what respondents were thinking a year earlier, or a day later. They offer up opinions that are frozen in time.September 23, 2013Global Supply Chain ManagementCan American Manufacturers Compete With the Chinese - in China?So the Chinese are gearing up to sell their branded merchandise in the U.S. But what about the other way around? Can American manufacturers capture a healthy share of China's burgeoning consumer market?September 16, 2013Logistics OutsourcingFor Buyers and Suppliers, Supply-Chain Finance Pays OffWith every crisis comes opportunity. The Great Recession, which choked off access to capital and placed suppliers around the world in economic jeopardy, triggered the growth of supply-chain finance programs, benefiting suppliers and buyers alike.September 3, 2013All LogisticsHow to Stop Cargo Theft From Stealing Your ProfitsMovie heists often involve sophisticated tools and brilliant plans that depend on crack timing in order to succeed. Not so in real life.August 26, 2013Previous PagePage 216 of 265Next Page
