Supply Chain Crash Test
Automobile manufacturers are constantly driving their cars into crash structures to see how they stand up. When was the last…
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‘Ethical Sourcing’ The Next Electronic Industry Trend
What is ethical sourcing? Essentially, adoption of ethical sourcing reflects the respect to the people and our plant. Ethical sourcing…
Disruptive Strategy: Ethical Sourcing
Any principled sourcing manager, if asked, should raise Ethical Sourcing to be a top priority. It is one of those…
Professor Rosling is an interesting fellow
Professor Hans Rosling is an interesting fellow. In his documentary Don’t Panic: How to End Poverty in 15 Years, which…
Predicting Supplier Failure
The problem of identifying suppliers with a high risk of failure is becoming more serious as talks of interest rate…
Catastrophic Risk Prevention
Analyze financial health to prevent catastrophic risk in your supply chain With increasing occurrences of disturbing events, such as companies…
8 Supply Chain Design Rules for Engineers
In this article, I summarize some points from a lecture that I gave at Hong Kong University in 2014; it…
Purchasing: The Status Quo Will Cost You
I am surprised by the number of supply chain and purchasing professionals that use the terms Total Cost of Ownership…
Benchmarking – Tried & True. What about your component spend?
Over the 4 years since our firm launched our electronic component benchmarking tool set, we’ve concluded there are only 4…
Market Price Normalization Improves Competitiveness
When we assess a new client’s spending against market pricing, we usually see a distribution of prices made up of…