In a place and time far-far away, before spreadsheets, laptops, even color display units – where typewriters were common and “clouding computing and virtual machines” were the norm (called mainframes and time share with MVS and VM) – I was apprenticed to learn the ways of the force – for agents of change. 

In the last few years, more and more people are getting involved in the field of supply chain. By some estimates, around 26% of all jobs are related to supply chain. With so many people involved in the supply chain, a good question to ask is this: How should one manage their supply chain career. This blog post sheds some light on the subject.

So you have been working with your team and possibly a few external vendors in order to get some improvements done in your supply chain planning. Perhaps, this has to do with buying software, or maybe it has to do with process improvements within your supply chain planning process. You of course want to get

The other day I was searching around the internet and I came a across an interesting article on supplychaindigital.com entitled, “Four Steps for an Ethical Supply Chain.” It caught my attention. In a world so driven by competition and climbing to the top, often we leave our values and our ethics in the dust. In

Steve Reichert retired from AkzoNobel after a successful career in supply chain with the company. We at Arkieva have worked with Steve since his Witco days in the late 90s and at AkzoNobel since the early 2000’s. This blog post is to celebrate Steve’s career and to wish him the very best as he starts

Producing and/or subcontracting in faraway regions can often lower the cost per unit in terms of labor and capital equipment investment. This supply chain strategy greatly increases lead times, the need for long range planning and increased inventory to cover demand uncertainty. A thorough evaluation should be made of the trade-offs of agile vs purely low cost supply chain strategies. The low cost solution might not be the best solution.