Revisiting Trust in Supply Chain Management
Trust is defined as "the firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something." How important is trust in supply chain management? What factors contribute most to [...]
Revisiting Data Quality in SCM
Poor data quality is the Achilles' heel of supply chain management. This is especially true for data received from suppliers, logistics service providers, and other external trading partners. How [...]
How Stressful Is Working In Supply Chain Management?
As reported by Sky News in September 2023, "The Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) said that analysis of data from over 900 companies employing 6.5 million staff found an [...]
A Formula for Change in Supply Chain
According to Wikipedia, “Gleicher’s Formula” for change (D x V x F > R = ∆) was created by David Gleicher while he was working at Arthur D. Little in the early 1960s. The variables are defined as [...]
Renaming Supply Chain Management
The word “chain” implies fixed, linear, rigid — things that are the opposite of today’s operating reality, where trading partner networks, business processes, and customer expectations are more [...]
Falling Into Supply Chain Management
Many current supply chain professionals say that they “fell into” the field — that is, they started their careers elsewhere but ultimately ended up in a supply chain role. [...]
Unlearning Supply Chain Management
In a June 2017 blog post, Kate Vitasek from the University of Tennessee wrote about how learning is hard, but unlearning is harder. What do we need to unlearn in supply chain management?
Managing Supply Chains from Home (Insights from Indago Members)
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is forcing many supply chain and logistics professionals to work from home. How has the experience been so far? What are the main challenges? Those are [...]
