Key issues for supply chain managers include cash management, building a sustainable supply chain, and pushing or pulling supplies through the supply chain. SpendMatters builds a good business case that finance may be the best organization to manage and set policies concerning P2P and cash management. The Desertec Foundation is leading a macro-initiative to create a solar power supply chain from the Middle East and North Africa to customers in Europe. Deloitte publishes a white paper re-examining push-pull business models and advocating that businesses should gravitate toward a more advance pull-type supply chain based on today’s technologies and business climate. See below for the latest Supply Chain Management and Technology trends in the news.
- Spend Matters: Should Finance Own P2P? – good discussion on procurement, systems and cash flow mgt – #B2B #SCM http://bit.ly/b7sig6 10:14 24 Apr 2010
- Desertec Foundation: RT @SCM_Ronald Great organization to build the foundation for the future sustainable supply chain: http://bit.ly/jKlQW Important #Green #Sustainable 9:14 24 Apr 2010
- Emerging Models for Mobilizing Resources (pdf white paper) – long, worthwhile read on going to next level on pull #scm #lean http://bit.ly/9rXK76 8:40 11 Apr 2010
