Securing the Chain: Steve Jenkins Explains Security Information Event Management in the Global Supply Chain (Supply Chain Risk) Mehr Bücher von Supply Chain Europe

Forecasting the Weakest Link: The Driver of the Sales and Operations Planning (S& OP) Process is the Sales Forecast. It is Also, In Many Cases, The Weakest Link, Writes Tony Dear (Forecasting & Planning)

Design the Six Sigma Supply Chain: Sean Culey, Managing Director of Sevencs Limited, Describes How the 'Six Sigma' Statistical Approach, As Used in Manufacturing, Should be Applied to Supply Chain Operations As Well (Supply Chain Quality)

Four Steps to 'Green Business As Usual': Creating a Sustainable Supply Chain Requires a New Way of Thinking, Says Paul Mcneillis, Director of Sustainability Solutions at PE International (Sustainability)

Buying Into Cloud: Cloud Technology is Still a Scary Subject, But It's the Future for E-Procurement, Writes Daniel Ball (Sourcing and Procurement) (Cloud Computing)

Five Rules: To Shortlist Supplier Performance Management Vendors (Supplier Relations)

Is Your Top Team Undermining Your Supply Chain? Building Bridges Between Senior Managers is a Critical Step in Constructing Tomorrow's Global Supply Chain, Say Christoph Glatzel, Jochen Grobpietsch and Ildefonso Silva (Industry Insider)

Balancing Global and Local Supply Planning Organizations: Globalization Seems to Rule, But Local Effects on Supply Chains are Poorly Understood, Says Geert Wullaert of S&V Management Consultants (Supply Chain Design)

Fair Chain (Opinion)

Electronic Data Integration Finally Comes of Age: Electronic Data Integration Between Trading Companies has Always been Plagued with a Complexity That has Meant That Its Full Benefits have been Hard to Achieve. Ian Ford, MD of First B2B Limited, Argues That the Advent of "Software As a Service" Technologies Allows Data Integration to Make Its Full Impact (Data Integration)

Cradle to Grave: It's an Information-Hungry World. Consumers, Users and Regulators Want to Know Everything from Which Chicken Laid the Egg to Where Mobiles Go when They die. No Surprise then That Product Lifecycle Management is the New 'Big Thing,' As Sam Tulip Discoverd at Oracleworld, San Francisco (Product Lifecycle Management)

Low-Cost Country Sourcing: The Past, The Present and the Future? (LCCS)

A Means to an End: Jamil Rashid Explains Why Supply Chain Change Programmes could be Key to Transforming How the Whole Defence and Aerospace Industry Works (Defence Procurement)

It in a Cold Climate: This is Not the Time to Cut Back on Supply Chain IT Investment, Advises Dr Richard Williams of Procertis (Information Technology)

The Holy Grail of Cost Reduction: Cathy Humphreys Discusses How the Holy Grail of Procurement Cost Reduction Become Reality (Sourcing and Procurement)

The Bottom Line on Dynamic Discounts: Purchase-To-Pay Solutions can Give You Control of Payment Cycles, Says Lucy Beck (Supply Chain Finance)

Achieving Global Collaboration: Anne-Marie Walters Advises Companies to Look Carefully at How They Go About Data Sharing (Auto Id)

All Your Eggs in One Basket? Nigel Taylor Discusses the Benefits of Having Only One Procure to Pay Provider (Sourcing and Procurement)

Time, Money and Efficiency: Tom Cummings Looks at How a Borough Council has Transformed IT Procurement (Sourcing and Procurement) (Cheltenham Borough Council)

The Five-Link Chain: Is Your Supply Chain Fit for the London Olympics? Asks Martyn Broadhead (London 2012)

Designing the Biggest Ethanol Pipeline in the World (Oil and Gas)