All Operations & Manufacturing Articles
The Magic of Predicting Demand from Data
Displaced by Automation in Shanghai
The Demands on Auto Suppliers
How to Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs
Is U.S. Manufacturing Really in Decline?
A Strategist’s Guide to Industry 4.0
What Mom-and-Pop Stores Can Teach Grocery Chains
Lessons in Product Design from Modern Warfare — In Pictures
Warfare, Software, and Industrial Design
America’s Real Manufacturing Advantage
America’s Manufacturing Advantage
How Industrial Companies Can Get Better at Design
Why You Should Create Multiple Supply Chains
Why Things Fail (And Why They Get Better)
s+b Trend Watch: Sourcing and Risk
Manufacturing’s Wake-Up Call
A Strategist’s Guide to Digital Fabrication
Focus and Scale on the Internet
Service Operations as a Secret Weapon
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle…or Rethink
Data Points: Manufacturing’s Economic Footprint
Cleaning the Crystal Ball
Virtuous Connections
The Case for Backshoring
An Essential Step for Corporate Strategy
A “Hands-on” Approach to Surviving the Recession
Reframing Your Business Equation
1. Manufacturing: Diagnosing This Downturn
Transforming an Adversarial Relationship
Supplier Empowerment and the Bottom Line
The Collaboration Game
Is Backshoring the New Offshoring?
Sidestepping Disaster
Start with Sourcing
Jeffrey Liker: The Thought Leader Interview
Six Keys to a Winning Manufacturing Strategy
Manufacturing’s “Make or Break” Moment
Saving Procurement from Itself
See for Yourself
Rebuilding Lego, Brick by Brick
The Energy-Efficient Supply Chain
Win-Win Sourcing
Brownfield Transformation: 25 Years On, Fulfilling the Promise of Lean Manufacturing
An Industry for All Seasons
The View from the Engine Room
Lessons from the Shop Floor
Third-Party Logistics: The Industry That Needs to Relax
Who Manages Manufacturing?
The Craft of Connection
Manufacturing Myopia
The Hidden Costs of Clicks
Are You Modular or Integral? Be Sure Your Supply Chain Knows
Supply Chain Lessons Can Save Capital Projects
The Right Mix for a Pricing Fix
The Lean, Green Service Machine
Supply Chain Strategy: Back to Basics
When Offshoring Isn’t a Sure Thing
Building the Advantaged Supply Network
The Power of Plausibility Theory
The Supply Side of Design and Development
Enterprise Resilience: Managing Risk in the Networked Economy
What FreshDirect Learned from Dell
E-Marketplace Survival Strategies
Why Outsourcing Is In
Relearning e-Learning: Principles for Success
Reinventing Scale: How to Escape the Size Trap
From Solutions to Symbiosis: Blending with Your Customers
The Four Phases of Continuous Sourcing
Marketing and Operations: Can This Marriage Be Saved?
Balance-Sheet Fix: No Orphaned Orders
Why Cisco Fell: Outsourcing and Its Perils
Oasis in the Dot-Com Delivery Desert
Rethinking Strategy in a Networked World (or Why Michael Porter is Wrong about the Internet)
Beyond Utopia: The Realist’s Guide to Internet-Enabled Supply Chain Management
Beating the B2B Odds
The Last Mile to Somewhere
From Vertical to Virtual: How Nortel's Supplier Alliances Extend the Enterprise
Climbing Up the Value Ladder
B2B Myths — and the Truth Underneath
Amazon Your Industry: Extracting Value from the Value Chain
Strategic Value Analysis for Competitive Advantage: An Illustration from the Petroleum Industry
Complexity Theory: Fact-free Science or Business Tool?
Cost Modeling: A Foundation Purchasing Skill
The Added-Value Theory of Business
Learning From the Turnaround at AK Steel
Global Sourcing: Another Critical Purchasing Skill
Setting Supplier Cost Targets: Getting Beyond the Basics
The Art and Practice of Japanese Management
How to Treat Customers Right: Winning the Channels Challenge
Systems, Modules or Components? New Light on Purchasing
Balanced Purchasing
