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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 [...]
What demand management solution is good for China?
Considering the the low transparency of operations in China, one question that comes to the mind is that: “What demand planning tools are better for companies which have China operations?” Well, the answer depends on whether the product demand is fast-changing or not. If not, it doesn´t really matter but for the other scenario, the [...]
Ambassador Alan Holmer on China, the SED, and US-China Relations
Just uploaded a few hours ago, Global Atlanta has just posted an excellent two part Youtube conversation between their reporter Trevor Williams and Alan Holmer on the current state of U.S. China relations, the role of SED (Strategic Economic Dialogue), and some of the issues they are addressing. What surprised me a bit was the [...]
Warner Brothers Closes Nanjing West Road Store
In yet another retail fatality, I am sorry to announce that the WB store is officially gone. Cut down to half the size a year or so ago, this store has been rumored to be on the brink for a while now… and it was just that time. Unfortunately, the WB store is not the [...]
Seed Article: Go West, Young Scientist
A big optimist on the potential of Western China, I was recently interviewed for an article in this months SEED Magazine entitled Go West Young Scientist. The author has done a great job of looking at some of the other opportunities (outside of my traditional scope) and hope you will enjoy it. Source: All Roads [...]
Are You Long or Short on WalMart? – Part 2
As a follow up to my post in November Are You Long or Short on WalMart?, MSNBC is now reporting 35 percent of toys contain lead. According to this report, the Center for Health, Environment and Justice and groups in 9 states performed Tests on more than 1,200 children’s products, most of them still on [...]
Oh Christmas Tree.. Oh christmas Tree.. Oh?? What’s A Christmas Tree??
Just stumbled onto an article in the USA Today Home Depot at home in China for holidays (via Blogging Stocks) . To say the least, Home Depot had a difficult time getting into the market. they had several failed merger attempts, several management turnovers, and in the end paid a tidy sum to take up [...]
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