Operations and Supply Chain Management Articles

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated July 12, 2010

Air Pillows Shipping is Waste

Wasteful packaging and overuse of corrugate is a huge source of environmental waste as well as a huge cost hog to an organization. The root cause of

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated June 25, 2010

The ambition for most process engineers, interaction designers, and just plain, smart, business people is to create the perfect flow -- whether it is

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated May 5, 2010

Fun and Delightful: BMW Supply Chain Management. Is it possible? Most logistics and supply chain professionals are primarily concerned with time,

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated October 20, 2008

Efficiently optimizing inventory, storage space, labor, warehouse costs, and time in eCommerce (e-retailing) is required to attain customer

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated July 9, 2008

Every system has constraints -- sometimes several -- minor bottlenecks and major bottlenecks. What makes managing constraints even more challenging

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated June 17, 2008

Several months ago my wife mentioned, in a subtle way, that she misses Giordano's Pizza. Giordano's is our favorite pizza joint and we used to eat

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated April 25, 2008

What happens after the customer clicks the "Buy Now Button"? For some customers, this is a large black hole. But, wise companies understand that

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated March 4, 2008

It's critically important in any transaction to be able to answer the question where's my stuff or where are we in the process? This requirement is

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated March 12, 2007

Learning Curve Theory is an important concept in business. In fact, it may be a management consulting framework that can help you in very practical