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New Report: Tracking Technology Assimilation in the Supply Chain
Tracking technologies, such as RFID, WLAN, and GPS, have become increasingly important due to heightened service, operations, security, and regulatory requirements. While past research has examined the value of tracking technology—in particular RFID—very little is known as to how and to what extent product, supply network, and environmental characteristics impact post‐adoption phases.
Supply Chain Manager Benchmark Study—Role, Compensation and Career
It’s said that once you fall into a job in supply chain, you make a career out of it.
American Shipper’s first study covering supply chain practitioners, surveyed more than 400 qualified respondents to create a higher level of visibility into the profession.
This confidential survey, co-produced with The Georgia Institute of Technology’s EMIL-SCS Executive Master’s Program, is designed to give you—and your management—a gauge on roles, responsibilities, compensation and opportunities prevalent in the industry today.
9th 3PL Summit
Discover the perceived impact of supply chain management on the overall business, and the impact of a turbulent economy on strategic supply chain management. Unprecedented insight into the industry's biggest challenges, including risk, customer service, capacity vs. volumes, and innovation and discover the relationship building strategies that differentiate the leaders from the laggards, from senior 3PL management, and direct from major outsource.
CSCMP's "Annual State of Logistics ReportŪ"" presented by Penske
The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) released the 21st Annual "State of Logistics Report®" on June 9, 2010 in Washington, DC. The report, titled "The Great Freight Recession," was delivered by Rosalyn Wilson and additional commentary was provided by a panel of industry leaders representing various areas within the supply chain. The "State of Logistics Report®" is widely used by supply chain and logistics professionals and organizations as the premier benchmark for US logistics activity.
The report presented by Penske had leaders from several companies speak out on how the data impacts their parts of the supply chain.
Global SCALE Risk Initiative
This initiative studies the impact of supply chain risks on uniquely global supply chains. To launch this initiative, MIT conducted a global survey of supply chain risks and risk management. MIT’s survey was targeted at supply chain, finance, and general business managers in manufacturing, distribution, and retail companies. Study teams were established in 11 countries. The survey was translated into 9 languages and dialects
Logistics Market Snapshot
The online Logistics Market Snapshot offers a free and concise look at that information, boiled down into manageable bites -- or snapshots -- and broken into seven areas of logistics. It's easy to read and makes finding your particular area of interest easy. The first snapshot, which came out Dec. 15, contains some 50 bits of logistics information in the areas of multimodal, trucking, rail, air cargo, sea cargo, warehousing and distribution and the U.S. market.
Strategies International Procurement
The German Logistics Association (BVL) and the Logistics Department of the Berlin University of Technology are conducting survey studies on a regular basis in order to identify trends, challenges and strategies in the field of international procurement with a focus on Emerging Markets. 332 companies from important industrial sectors and with significant procurement values have contributed by sharing their experience in sourcing objectives, the current and future challenges they are facing, and the best practice strategies and concepts they apply to successfully run procurement and logistics activities.
Supply Chain Progress
The results of the eighth annual Global Survey of Supply Chain Progress are now available. The 2010 survey was conducted once again by CSC, Supply Chain Management Review, The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University, with assistance from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and Supply Chain Europe magazine. This year's survey attracted 164 complete responses, split evenly between manufacturing and service organizations. There were an additional 35 partial responses.
