The point of no returns for online purchases
This holiday season, more shoppers than ever before will forego crowded malls for cyberspace and enjoy the ease and convenience of purchasing gifts from their home computers, tablets, and mobile devices.
Medical devices become safer thanks to barcodes
Supply Chain Management Professor Eugene Schneller examines the immediate and long-term effects of technological asset tracking in the health care industry.
That ugly sweater you returned? It might not go where you think
There have been reports about retailers destroying returned, unworn merchandise. Others send it to third-party liquidators or donate or recycle it. More and more, returned products are sold at online auctions.
Arizona’s effort to boost Mexico trade faces hurdle under Trump administration
The state is caught in the middle as the President attempts to limit foreign trade while it tries to boost cross-border business.
Futures Study 2020: Meet tomorrow’s procurement professional
Professors Thomas Kull and Thomas Choi examine what the future may look like for supply management professionals. They see an individual who will be tapped to do even more.
Supplier integration: making the most of business partnerships
Supplier integration is an increasingly studied area of supply chain management. In a nutshell, it is a process whereby a buyer and a supplier synchronize their firm’s processes for mutual benefit. Research Professor Thomas Kull looks to explain the process in his latest research.
A new study encourages wine distributors to look into the future.
Professor of Supply Chain Management Scott Webster and his co-authors share a formula to help make better investments in the alcoholic beverage.
First, empowered consumers: How will the Internet disrupt supply chains next?
Do you remember “You’ve Got Mail”? In the 1998 hit movie, the Internet enables romance to flower between Tom Hanks, who played a big box bookstore owner, and Meg Ryan, an independent bookstore owner. Ironically, that same Internet has now clobbered big box bookstores.
Consumer wearables: Biosensors and health care
Bioscientists, technologists and health care experts talked about current health care challenges and the opportunities to redefine and resolve them at the 2015 Symposium on Innovation in the Health Sector, hosted by the W. P. Carey School’s Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium.
Improving health care: It’s about better execution
Brent James, chief quality officer and executive director at the Intermountain Institute for Healthcare Leadership, gives of examples of how to deliver better health care, cheaper at the 2015 Mark McKenna Health Care Management Lecture, hosted by the Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium