While the hoarding and panic buying of toilet paper may have initially caused a stock shortage in stores and online, Jim Luke, professor of economics at Lansing Community College, explains why the scarcity has a lot to do with the supply chain. Continue reading Toilet Paper Scarcity Links Back To Supply Chain
Supply chain capabilities are guided by the decisions you make regarding the five supply chain drivers. Each of these drivers can be developed and managed to emphasize responsiveness or efficiency depending on changing business requirements Continue reading Five Supply Chain Drivers
The longer it takes for coronavirus to spread the population, the more time hospitals have to prepare Continue reading Flattening the Coronavirus Curve
Increasingly, multinational corporations (MNCs) are pledging to procure the materials and services they need from companies committed to fair labor practices and environmental protections. But the … Continue reading A More Sustainable Supply Chain
Salomon makes millions of shoes every year. But it’s trying to develop a way to make those shoes more sustainable — the company’s new concept shoe is made entirely out of one material, TPU. It can be ground down and combined with new TPU to form a brand new ski boot shell. Salomon expects this shoe to be available in 2021. Salomon isn’t the only company developing a sustainable sneaker. Adidas’ Futurecraft Loop shoe is also made from TPU. Adidas hopes to turn used shoes into a brand new pair. Continue reading How old shoes get turned into ski boots
Innovation is upending every aspect of the supply chain. Here are the technologies to watch — and adopt — as the decade unfolds. Continue reading 5 supply chain technologies that deliver competitive advantage
Ellen MacArthur and Joe Iles talk through the various loops on the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s “butterfly diagram”. Continue reading Basics of the circular economy
This is the story the beauty industry doesn’t want you to know. As the leader in clean beauty, it’s not enough for us to only use safer ingredients. We’re committed to going beyond clean to become the first beauty brand with a fully traceable mica supply chain. Our team spent over a year traveling the world conducting on-the-ground audits to make sure people who mine our ingredients are safe and treated with respect.
Continue reading Transparency: The Truth About Mica.
This video articulates one way to understand the difference between corporate and business strategy, and how they fit together. Continue reading Corporate vs. Business Strategy
Is our obsession with efficiency actually making us less efficient? In this revelatory talk, writer and historian Edward Tenner discusses the promises and dangers of our drive to get things done as quickly as possible — and suggests seven ways we can use “inspired inefficiency” to be more productive. Continue reading The paradox of efficiency
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