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Energy Supply Chain

How the manufacturing industry is reinventing itself as a new global supply chain for alternative energy, with handsome rewards.

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Lean Six Sigma for SCM

Lean Six Sigma for Supply Chain Management ISBN: 0071479422 ISBN-13: 9780071479424

World's Most Competitive Supply Chain

SCI is in the midst of an ambitious effort to streamline its supply chain - to give customers visibility into the manufacturing process, ...

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Supply Chain Complexity Is Costing

Supply chain disruptions can damage income by more than 100% for up to two years after an incident occurs.

And the reason is that, according to the survey, 29% of high-tech manufacturers produce more than half of their manufacturing output through third parties and contract manufacturers.

While high-tech manufacturing professionals currently use technologies ranging from Excel to full-blown ERP systems to manage supply chains, the survey suggests there will need to be increased use of collaboration tools by 2010 ranging from web conferencing to IM, unified communications and business intelligence and analytics.

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Ethical rules impose perverse incentives

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is a charity promoting greater awareness and informed discussion of important policy issues. The aim of this 'online library' is to provide easy access (through links) to a wide ...

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Going green – How an EMS Company Can Help

The integrity, experience and commitment of the EMS to a green initiative will greatly affect the effectiveness of the implementation of the environmental management system and the progress of a green supply chain thereafter. ...

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