In 2000, she was named senior vice president, Corporate Strategic Services, heading up manufacturing and supply chain operations.
Improving supply chain operations has the potential to reduce costs and risk and make a meaningful social and environmental difference.
"They are the seam between the bits and asphalt, " he says, adding Uber employs many former bankers in nonfinance roles like city managers and supply-chain 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.
This approach has worked well for GHX as we have helped organizations large and small, technologically sophisticated and, well, not so sophisticated automate and enhance their supply chain operations.
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The first half of 2013 will be a time when self-assessed delivery, customer and consumer communication and angel experience in quality control and supply chain operations will become key topics.
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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.
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.
The chain boasts operations in 12 Eastern European and South East Asian countries.
Apple is noted for control over its supply chain and expertise in operations engineering.
And many will ultimately fail, creating disruptions in the supply chain that can negatively impact operations.
While Carrefour doesn't have sub-Saharan operations, the chain has stores in northern Africa.
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.
"Revenue loss and image damage is a concern, " said Benny Ng, an operations manager for the chain.
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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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.
Specifically, Greenpeace says, Apple should pressure Duke Energy, which it says provides power to its North Carolina data center, to produce energy by cleaner means and to end its "mountaintop coal removal operations" from Apple's supply chain.
Instead he described how he had managed operations and been in charge of the supply chain.
Meanwhile, Cook made the operations sing by streamlining facilities and the supply chain, all of which dramatically increased margins.
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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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.
However, Oclaro is still evaluating the broader supply chain implications of the flooding in Thailand across its entire manufacturing operations.
Its operations stretch across all links in the natural gas value chain, with the exceptions of exploration and production.
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The South Korean government provides insurance for most companies operating in the Kaesong complex, but any major disruptions to operations would hurt other small South Korean businesses in the supply chain.
Another friend, who owns a chain of agricultural-supply stores, has moved to Florida and is expanding operations in other states.
What is new is that as manufacturing companies pursue these goals in an increasingly globalized supply chain, they need vastly improved information to design, plan, execute and measure operations across a complex and varied environment.
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.
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 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.
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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