tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8598382829863261252Sat, 31 Aug 2024 16:14:38 +0000Richard's thoughts on Supply Chain managementhttp://vdmsupplychain.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Richard van der Meulen)Blogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8598382829863261252.post-7156979997496818548Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:55:00 +00002009-11-18T11:06:16.732-08:00China’s industrial output grew by 16.1% in October compared with a year earlier, according to the National Bureau of Statistics -its annualized GDP growth for Q3 was 8.7%, compared to the large European nations who are barely out of the recession. France grew by 0.3% and Germany by 0.6% and let’s not mention the UK, which still is in a recession. I don’t want to be all doom and gloom; I am sure http://vdmsupplychain.blogspot.com/2009/11/growth-of-chinas-domestic-market.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard van der Meulen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8598382829863261252.post-3104674279368921071Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:00:00 +00002009-11-04T09:09:11.628-08:00Manhattan Associates organiseerde aan de vooravond van de Logistica een evenement met enkele van haar partners om klanten en prospects bij te praten over de ontwikkelingen in de markt waar de softwareleverancier actief is. Ook zag Manhattan het evenement als een mooie gelegenheid om te discussiëren met de aanwezigen. De dag werd afgesloten met een paneldiscussie over supply chain excellence, http://vdmsupplychain.blogspot.com/2009/11/weathering-storm-panel-discussion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard van der Meulen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8598382829863261252.post-7848956410715753008Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:56:00 +00002009-11-03T02:58:38.322-08:00Recently a friend told me about his visit to his local hospital. While he was waiting to be seen by the Doctor, a nurse walked up to him to inform him that they had not yet received the test results, which the Doctor was going to discuss with him during this meeting. Now this might not have come as such a big surprise to my friend if it wasn’t for the fact that it had been more than 6 months http://vdmsupplychain.blogspot.com/2009/11/can-we-have-it-little-bit-quicker-real.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard van der Meulen)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8598382829863261252.post-6419419419893870431Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:54:00 +00002009-10-28T02:59:21.534-07:00It only hit me when I could not find my Economist magazine in its usual place behind the front door this Friday. The Royal mail is on strike! Now, on the upside I also didn’t receive any bills whilst I still can go to the shop to get my magazine, assuming that the news agents have received their deliveries today. Have they?Unfortunately a disruption can impact people differently; ask the many http://vdmsupplychain.blogspot.com/2009/10/where-is-my-economist.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard van der Meulen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8598382829863261252.post-6590063176087737084Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:36:00 +00002009-10-28T03:03:34.739-07:00Well, the recession is over, or at least, we can now talk about “green shoots”, “light at the end of the tunnel” or use any metaphor describing the start of the economic recovery without putting ourselves in a political danger-zone. But does this mean that we are going to be operating in a business-as-usual environment or will we be operating in a new equilibrium? And where does Supply Chain http://vdmsupplychain.blogspot.com/2009/10/so-whats-next-golden-age-of-supply.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard van der Meulen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8598382829863261252.post-6604902783936456646Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:55:00 +00002009-10-28T03:29:05.695-07:00Last week I had the privilege to present at a Pharma Industry event in Madrid. One of the things we talked about was the sudden increase in inventory per sales around the time that Lehman Brothers left the scene in Sep 2008, the drop of inventory per sales through 2009 and what effect this has on the Supply Chain.We all seem to have been caught out up to certain degree by the sudden drop in http://vdmsupplychain.blogspot.com/2009/10/double-inventory-whammy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard van der Meulen)0