The House Energy and Commerce sub-committee on Oversight and Investigations had some of the nation’s top food company CEOs on the witness stand this week. Congress’ look at the record breaking recall of 143,000,000 lbs of beef, piled on top of the tainted vegetable stories of the last year, serves to highlight another example of [...]

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Mehdi Hassan, blogging for South Asia Biz, recently highlighted a Forrester report on the growing dissatisfaction with IT outsourcing in India. As Hassan points out, firms are struggling with the falling dollar, unrealistic expectations, scalability, possible tax code changes and believe it or not, scarcity of top IT talent.
I couldn’t agree more with the assertion [...]

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The dip in soybean production caused by farmers gravitating to ethanol production got you down? Well, the 2/25 issue of Business Week (sorry it’s print only, but a PDF version of the article is here) highlights another potential shortage you might see in 2008: Television ad time.
The shortage is caused by the need for [...]

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Henry Ford must be smiling. After decades of outsourcing manufacturing, engineering, and other responsibilities to suppliers stateside and in low-cost regions, The Big Three automakers are beginning to bring sub-assembly back in-house.
Beginning this spring, Ford Motor Company — the birthplace of Henry Ford’s vertical integration manufacturing model — will be the first to take back [...]

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Over the past year, Supply Excellence has been tracking a growing trend for companies to rethink their sourcing strategies. For example, General Motors has made re-sourcing a cornerstone of its (ongoing) turnaround plan. And just last week a major food and beverage company told me it was rethinking supply lines for core ingredients.
Mattel’s Chairman and [...]

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