With the run up in product recalls and food concerns last year, product quality and supply risk management have captured the attention of the C-suite and the general public. Supply managers have an opportunity to leverage this crisis to boost their brand in the organization and help their companies turn the strategic balancing of cost, [more]

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Continuing on the topic of Supply Chain Finance (SCF), Aberdeen provides actions for companies based on their best-in-class status as highlighted in the report, “The 2008 State of the Market in Supply Chain Finance,” Table 2 below allows you to determine where your organization fits:

When a company sets out to improve its SCF practices, having [more]

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In Aberdeen’s latest report “The 2008 State of the Market in Supply Chain Finance,” the firm seized the opportunity to help organizations embrace SCF programs and the promise of savings and improved financial supply chain efficiencies. The problem to date for organizations is the lack of best practice examples and specific guidelines for the corporate [more]

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Last week Aberdeen published a new report titled “The 2008 State of the Market in Supply Chain Finance.” This report, an update to the 2006 study on the same topic, showed only a slight increase in practical activity in Supply Chain Finance (SCF). Although the level of interest is high, Aberdeen’s research cites that companies [more]

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Two years ago, when I suggested that a declining dollar and rising wage and capacity constraints in emerging markets could make the U.S. an attractive “low-cost” region for foreign manufacturers, most of you painted me as Chicken Little. Last year, I awoken your skepticism when I suggested that Detroit and regions of the South that [more]

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