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A gathering of global leaders Nearly 3,000 supply chain management and logistics professionals from more than 40 countries gathered in Denver, Colorado, USA recently to attend CSCMP's Annual Global Conference 2008.
Use the downturn to prepare for the upturn The global economic downturn is providing a temporary reprieve from high energy prices and an opportunity to plan for the future.
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KATE VITASEK, CHRISTOPHER R. MOBERG, THEODORE P. STANK and ABRé PIENAAR
The supply chain profession needs a more comprehensive model for measuring the effectiveness of both internal and external supply chain management. Current models don't quite do the job, the authors contend.
From the Quarter 03 2008 issue
The recent renaming of the Council of Logistics Management (CLM) as the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) ushered in some interesting dialogue and debate within the practitioner and academic communities. At the center of this dialogue is discussion concerning the definition, scope, and conceptualization of supply chain management (SCM). While emerging definitions rightly consider it to be a cross-disciplinary concept, there is confusion regarding which organization within a business should own SCMrelated managerial decisions....
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