The latest supply chain trend seems just a little too similar to an old and not particularly successful trend for …
How Much Can You Get Delivered to Your Door—and More Critically, For How Much Longer?
23 Thursday Oct 2014
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Shifting the Supply Chain to Respond to Sales Slumps: Seeking Profits for BlackBerry, Business for Foxconn
12 Saturday Jul 2014
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In an alliance that seems destined to adjust their images, practices, and approaches, BlackBerry has moved production of its new …
I’m Not Winging, Or Loving, It: A Rare Misstep and an Inventory Nightmare for McDonald’s
17 Friday Jan 2014
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Back in the fall on this site, we described an innovation by McDonald’s and its wide-ranging effects on the entire …
Modern Supply Chains: Great for Consumers, Deadly for Workers
26 Monday Aug 2013
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Assessments of flexible, global, rapid supply chains tend to focus on their benefits: They lower prices for consumers. They help …
Black Knee Socks as a Fashion Trend? A Clothing Line by the U.S. Postal Service
22 Friday Mar 2013
The woes of the U.S. Postal Service have been well publicized. The government service keeps losing money, even as stamp …
A Philly Favorite Comes Back to Its Chewing Roots
05 Monday Nov 2012
It sounds like the plotline from an old movie: Small town player gets introduced to the big movers, changes her …
Wal-Mart’s Sustainability
26 Sunday Oct 2008
In the face of widespread criticisms for working with suppliers that engaged in unsafe, poor, and environmentally unfriendly practices, Wal-Mart …
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