ICG Commerce to Deliver Global Indirect Procurement Outsourcing Services to Chiquita Brands International

from CNN.com

ICG Commerce, the leading procurement outsourcing specialist, today announced that it has signed a five-year agreement with Chiquita Brands International, Inc. (NYSE: CQB), one of the world’s leading marketers and distributors of high-quality fresh and value-added food products, to provide procurement outsourcing services. Under the terms of the contract, ICG Commerce will assist Chiquita with managing indirect spend areas, including transportation, marketing, MRO (maintenance, repair and operating supplies) and information technology on a global basis.

Bridging Gaps For The Chinese-American Automotive Supply Chain

from theautochannel.com

An exclusive interview with Dr. Yilong Chen, General Director of Asia Pacific Affairs & Chief Representative in China, AIAG

“AIAG’s mission in China is to address its member companies’ needs and help the Chinese suppliers improve quality, materials management and e-commerce,”said Dr. Yilong Chen, General Director of Asia Pacific Affairs & Chief Representative in China, AIAG (Automotive Industry Action Group), in an exclusive interview with Gasgoo.com.

The Supply Chain Execution Market to Grow 10% Annually

from arcweb.com

It is difficult for large multi-billion dollar markets to grow rapidly, but the Supply Chain Execution (SCE) market will achieve that feat.  Supply Chain Execution includes Collaborative Production Management for Process (CPM-P) and Discrete (CPM-D) industries, Transportation Management Systems (TMS), and Warehouse Management Systems (WMS).

Strategic Spot Trading Benefits Supply Chains

from businesswire.com

Supply chains –– the string of players involved in making goods from the procurement of raw materials to the consumer end product –– have traditionally operated with gross inefficiencies resulting from what they don’t know. How can the producer of a computer chip really know how many chips manufacturers will need, particularly when the manufacturers themselves are uncertain? How do manufacturers know how many chips will be on the market when they need them, and whether to take the risk of ordering in advance?

What Do CEOs Understand and Not Understand About Supply Chain Management?

from scdigest.com

Expressing views about a class, or category, of business leaders, or about any kind of people for that matter, is risky, difficult, and opens one up to be accused of stereotyping. My intent here is certainly not to convey any such representation as a generality, but rather to voice my judgment in where we stand with CEOs, and boardrooms, with respect to Supply Chain Management (SCM) today.

Supply Chain Software Once Again Hot Sector

from CNN.com

The supply chain gang is back in business.

Makers of supply chain management software fought a rough spending climate as tech budgets froze in the early 2000s.

But over the past year, many of these companies have come back with solid growth and higher stock prices.

Manhattan Associates MANH, JDA Software Group (NASDAQ:JDAS) JDAS, Logility LGTY, privately held RedPrairie and others have recorded double-digit revenue growth in the past year. That compares with a 7% growth rate for all software.

Supply Chain Specialty Moves to 13th in U.S. News Survey

from uark.edu

The U.S. News & World Report’s annual college guide has rated the supply chain management and logistics specialty in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas in a tie for 13^th place among all undergraduate business schools and in a tie with Indiana University at Bloomington (Kelly) for ninth place among all public universities.

In U.S. News last year, the Walton College supply chain management and logistics specialty was ranked in a tie for 19^th place overall and 14^th among all public universities.

New Book on Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM)

from openpr.com

During November / December 2007 the Publisher Springer Verlag will publish a new book on Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM) by Raschid Ijioui, Heike Emmerich and Michael Ceyp. The title of the book is: Strategies and Tactics in Supply Chain Event Management .(ISBN Number 978-3-540-73765-0)

Entire supply chain needs to pay service tax, finance ministry says

from livemint.com

New Delhi: In an effort to ensure that all services provided by suppliers to customers are charged, the finance ministry has said the entire supply chain of Indian companies will have to pay tax on the value of their input services. The ministry clarified this in a circular issued on Thursday.

Program management review provides update on Global Logistics Support Center

from afmc.af.mil

Supply chain partners and customers came together here Aug. 15-16 as part of the Global Logistics Support Center’s (Provisional Office) first major program management review.

The Global Logistics Support Center (Provisional Office), or GLSC(P), is an Air Force Materiel Command Direct Reporting Unit that reports directly to the AFMC commander. The Provisional Office stood up here May 7 and is tasked with standing up the permanent GLSC capability, which will become the single process owner for Air Force supply chain management.