The business, social and environmental results of supply chain operations have the potential to address many of the issues outlined above but need to be framed against the social purpose of the business and not as management by check box.
Minutes after the earthquake and tsunami hit the coast of Japan March 11, Tony Prophet, chief of supply chain operations at Hewlett-Packard (HP), was up and out of bed to see what could be done.
In response, leaders in manufacturing must place greater importance on transparency in the demand and supply chain gaining a real-time view of global operations, and engaging their entire workforce in improved decision making.
The types of risks to which companies are exposed, as well as their severity, are growing, and companies are increasingly concerned about the spectrum of risks from supply chain to operations to regulation to reputation.
However, Oclaro is still evaluating the broader supply chain implications of the flooding in Thailand across its entire manufacturing operations.
They hired a group of consultants to determine how utilities could work together to leverage the power of a digital economy and transform their supply chain operations.
Instead he described how he had managed operations and been in charge of the supply chain.
Yet the employees who carry out the operations that make up much of a supply chain's individual components, such as driving trucks, overseeing warehouses or operating fork-lifts, are not always treated as though their jobs are important.
Meanwhile, Cook made the operations sing by streamlining facilities and the supply chain, all of which dramatically increased margins.
Another friend, who owns a chain of agricultural-supply stores, has moved to Florida and is expanding operations in other states.
The hard stuff is made up of the classic virtues dear to the hearts of finance and operations people: cost, speed, supply chain, analytics.
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Vishal Bali, head of Fortis Global Healthcare, an Indian hospital chain with pan-Asian operations, says the Gulf has enormous potential as a destination for niche medical travel.
Or, it may lead to the conclusion that the available dollars are better spent in tracking carbon through the supply chain (or that we need to go back and ask the CEO and CFO for more money to get an accurate view of our carbon footprint across both internal operations and the supply chain and how they affect each other).
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Its operations stretch across all links in the natural gas value chain, with the exceptions of exploration and production.
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As COO, Cook was previously responsible for all of the company's worldwide sales and operations, including end-to-end management of Apple's supply chain, sales activities, and service and support in all markets and countries.
In this case the factor was Liquid Capital, a chain of financiers headquartered in Toronto. (It's one of two such franchised factoring operations in North America, the other being Interface Financial Group in Irvine, Calif.) Under this arrangement, Lee Doernberg, a Liquid franchisee in Alpharetta, Ga.
Moving retail operations brought some questions about whether Joly, who led a turnaround of a hotel chain, can navigate Best Buy through its problems.
In the last four years the 52-year-old clothier has rehabilitated two retail operations: British Home Stores (now known as BHS), a 76-year-old chain of department stores, and Arcadia Group, owner of popular outfitters like Topshop and Topman.
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