When we look back on the past few years of craziness in the currency markets, booming transportation (and oil) prices and a general trend toward government sponsored protectionism (even China and India have been especially guilty of protecting their ...

Tim Minahan recently penned a useful little number over on Supply Excellence that examines -- obviously in a somewhat partisan, anti-ERP/installed way -- the benefits of on-demand deployment models. The on-demand/installed question is a type of philo...

One of the challenges of covering the area of supply risk is that it's often hard to find companies to actually talk about what they're doing. And that's not just because many are secretive about it -- many organizations are simply not doing anything...

A couple of weeks back, I went to a Steely Dan concert for the second time this summer. That's right. Much to my wife's chagrin -- she's the kind of women Donald Fagen talks about in "Hey Nineteen" -- I had to see the old duo again, especially consid...

Aberdeen recently came out with a fascinating (if not potentially misleading) new study on supply chain risk. A full copy of the study is available by clicking here. These numbers validate much of my own current research and thinking in the area of s...