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Supply chain video: Managing your China supply chain (3)
Here comes the third part of the presentation from Mike Bellamy from PassageMaker. In this part he elaborates more on the problem of the products being copied by suppliers and suggests some solutions. One of the solutions is making a firewall. Actually I am going to write a separate post on that but till then [...]
Three issues in inventory optimizations and their solutions
In my point of vies, effective optimization of inventory in the supply chain is one of the most important tasks in SCM division but this task can very challenging. Below you can read some of my thoughts on the issues in inventory optimization and possible solutions for them: – It happens often times that as [...]
RosettaNet Summit Highlights Future Opportunities in B2B
Maybe you are familiar with RosettaNet Community: The organization is a non-profit consortium which develops universal standards for the global supply chain, emphasizing bottom-line, measurable results. Generally I can say it´s more of a technical organization but focused on supply chain and B2B. This year, RosettaNet is combining its bi-annual Global Community Summit with the [...]
Supply chain video: Managing your China supply chain (2)
Here comes the second part of the presentation from Mike Bellamy from PassageMaker. In this video, he continues with giving examples of un-cautious procurement managers who went to China for one month to find suppliers, shared some product data with some chinese firms and by the time they were coming back, their products was already [...]
IBM extends supply chain outsourcing arrangement with Telstra
IBM has announced a seven-year deal that extends a supply-chain outsourcing arrangement struck in September 2006, and is expected to deliver Telstra cost savings of as much as A$700m according to Ovum. IBM is taking over end-to-end responsibility for the operation of Telstra's supply chain for telecommunications parts and common business consumables such as office [...]
New supply chain executive course at MIT
For those of you who are interested in short-term executive courses in supply chain management, I have an exciting news: MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics is organizing a course for January 2008. The course is called Supply Chains Driving Strategic Advantage 2008 and the good thing is that they have 20% Discount for MIT-CTL [...]
1.3 Billion People Love China Law Blog
Okay, so that’s a bit of an exaggeration. Just a bit though. Must read post over at Cup of Cha regarding how the Chinese people view various Chinese bloggers. Post is entitled “What Chinese People are Saying About our Blogs” and it is based on Josh’s (Cup of Cha’s) reviews of China internet forums. The [...]
High Five & Thanks a Million
China Business Services (the business behind the blog) is delighted to be celebrating 5 years of operation this year – while our website and China Business Blog are celebrating having had over a million page views (1,011,357 of them in the past 13 months alone). Over the past 5 years we have developed hand-in-hand with [...]
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