Having a key part of your manufacturing process infiltrated — effectively hacked — puts every believed-to-be-secure supply chain into question.
Two recent Times articles in a new series, "The iEconomy," have addressed the challenges faced by high-tech industries, including the pressures of a globalized supply chain and questions about labor practices at manufacturing partners.
It confirms that the pure palm oil it uses is sustainable, and that it is "working on" ensuring sustainability across the supply chain – which invites the question of whether the combined fats it uses might contain the unsustainable variety.
Given recent press on conditions in the electronics supply chain, this is a question that many companies are likely dealing with right now.
The extent to which there is sufficient 'marginal land' in the UK on which to sustainably cultivate energy crops for a domestic supply chain is also in question.
Analyst Rebecca Runkle asserts that HP is burdened by many negative factors including lower retail shelf space, exposure to Apple Computer 's cheap new Mac, supply chain inefficiencies, competition and questions about overall execution.
"If Vivienne is so concerned about the ethics of fashion, why doesn't she have a transparent supply chain?" It was the first question of the day and immediately set the tone for subsequent queries.
A crucial question in supply chain management (SCM) is how to align the actions and interests of the multitude of involved companies (Ellram and Cooper 1990; Mentzer et al. 2001).
There are manifold social sustainability issues in global supply chains (GSC), the question is whether digital-training can address them.
One of the central questions in supply chain design is how to properly invest in supply chain capabilities in order to be more responsive to supply chain disruptions.
