So far, the majority of companies are just focusing on dealing with the regulations as they come up, according to Mike Kirschner, president and managing partner of supply chain consulting group Design Chain Associates.
FORBES: How International Regulations Are Changing American Supply Chains
Outsourcing PC manufacturing allows HP to focus on strategic core competencies, including supply chain design, new product and services development, supplier management and customer relationship management.
FORBES: How Hewlett-Packard And Dell Destroyed Their PC Advantage ... Piece-By-Piece
Working together with 3M and utilizing their outstanding design and supply chain capabilities will allow our QDEF technology to be widely deployed across all product segments and will ensure availability to all customers.
ENGADGET: 3M and Nanosys team-up to roll out quantum dot-enhanced LCDs
"This is a realization of the Open Compute Project's mission of 'hacking conventional computing infrastructure, '" said Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and VP of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.
ENGADGET: AMD unveils Open 3.0: an Opteron 6300 platform for the Open Compute Project
Second, disruptive new business models are overwhelmingly likely to be hybrids that bring together at least two different innovations in areas that include product design, supply chain organization, retailing models, materials science research, manufacturing and organizational effectiveness.
FORBES: Why We Need To Rebuild The U.S. Manufacturing Sector
"Combining the world class-technology and materials expertise of Nanosys with the engineering, design and supply chain capabilities of 3M will unlock a powerful new color viewing experience for consumers, " said Jim Bauman, Vice President of the Optical Systems Division at 3M.
ENGADGET: 3M and Nanosys team-up to roll out quantum dot-enhanced LCDs
"We're thrilled to see Fusion-io launching ioScale in conjunction with the Open Compute Summit and making this high-performance, low-power technology more broadly available, " said Frank Frankovsky, Chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and Vice President of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.
ENGADGET: Fusion-io brings Fusion ioScale SSD to small, speedy server clusters
"We're excited about the flexibility that these technologies can bring to hardware and how silicon photonics will enable us to interconnect these resources with less concern about their physical placement, " said Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and vice president of hardware design at supply chain at Facebook.
ENGADGET: Facebook's Open Compute Project splits up monolithic servers with help from Intel, more
Not long ago I came across a white paper of sorts--presented as a wall chart--that describes a way of integrating product design into your supply chain.
The biggest union, Unite, wants to keep production, design and as much of the supply chain as possible in Britain.
ECONOMIST: Why Tata Motors is favourite to buy Jaguar and Land Rover
That process continued as Dell outsourced the management of its supply chain, and then the design of its computers themselves.
Sir Terence founded the Conran Design Studio in 1956 and later the Habitat chain of home furnishings stores.
He took a job working for a chain of magic shops, doing graphic design and demonstrating tricks.
The ability to design, engineer and put in place a supply chain is no mean feat, even for a big company.
Over five decades Baus, 79, built Bauhaus AG (not to be confused with the design school or modernist architectural style) into a chain with 220 stores in 16 European countries.
FORBES: German DIY Chain Founder Heinz-Georg Baus Joins Billionaire Ranks
Thanks to design changes, testing problems, and supply-chain issues, the fighter program is now years behind schedule, (delivery to start in 2016) and its cost has risen by more than 50 percent from original estimates.
Obviously, all 400 people on that e-mail chain know who he is, by his design.
FORBES: After lawyer has public meltdown, is he entitled to privacy?
Inditex is something of a supply chain marvel: clothes move from concept to design to the Zara stores in a matter of days.
FORBES: The Year's Biggest Winner: Zara Billionaire Amancio Ortega
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.
Dundee-based firm i-design has secured exclusive rights to sell advertising space across supermarket chain Asda's entire cash machine network.
Cycling did not appeal to the masses until the introduction of the pneumatic safety bicycle with a chain and sprocket drive (the prototype of the modern design).
It provides specialist services in rail design, engineering, construction, management and maintenance, and offers supply chain solutions to a range of customers in Australia.
The chain, which had scotched its signature blue A-frame design in favor of big boxes that can seat more customers, is testing a new prototype that uses the A-frame as a restaurant's entranceway.
Made of an attractive solid metal matte finish case, DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 G3 features a convenient retractable design that protects the USB from damage while carrying it on a key chain, purse or briefcase.
ENGADGET: Kingston's DataTraveler HyperX Predator: a 1TB USB 3.0 flash drive
To understand how this works, let us imagine that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) develops a perfectly fragmented and disintegrated Web TV-supply chain: Every activity from the new TV-concept development, to design, manufacturing, marketing, and so on can be performed by independent subcontractors.
In other news, pedal-powered transportation geared up for the future as we showcased a chain-less hybrid bike with an out-of-this-world design and a molded bamboo bike that is grown from the ground up.
ENGADGET: Inhabitat's Week In Green: solar-powered stadium, bipod flying cars and biofueled flights
Over the course of 48-hours, participants self-organized into teams and worked with The Design Gym to tackle six of the greatest challenges facing sustainable meat like fragmented communication along the meat supply chain, the impact of consolidation on rural communities and labeling confusion for consumers.
The Company is principally engaged in the design, development, manufacturing and marketing of yield-enhancing, production support solutions for specialized applications in the supply chain of the electronics industry, primarily for PCBs and FPDs.
FORBES: Latest Picks From Bill Gates Foundation: Buys KO, PG, WMT, Sells Costco, CSX
应用推荐