Operations and Supply Chain Management Articles

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated February 2, 2007

Productivity and Efficiency Calculations for Business

As business professionals, we take some important business concepts for granted. Today, we'll explore the difference between Productivity and

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated January 24, 2007

Yesterday for class, we played the Beer Distribution Game, which is a game developed by the Systems Dynamic Group at MIT back in the early 1960's.

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated January 23, 2007

In a previous article, I provided an introduction to business forecasting. In this article, we will discuss 2 types of forecasting models - the

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated January 22, 2007

This article is part 1 of a series on Forecasting. A forecast is an estimate of the future level of some variable. That variable is most often

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated January 18, 2007

Update: This is my 2007 article on the Apple iPhone Supply Chain Analysis. It's a dated article and many things have changed. But, it may still be an

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated January 11, 2007

Peak Season at Amazon is crazy, fun, and exciting. That is a time when "all hands on deck" really comes into play and everybody is pitching in to

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated December 14, 2006

A Visible Supply Chain can be a competitive advantage. Traceability in the supply chain is one of the most important aspects of the customer

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated September 14, 2006

Business frameworks help us to understand and describe the world in simpler, less complex terms. This is why the Profit Tree is so helpful. In this

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated September 2, 2006

In a lot of business analysis, there's quite a bit of art, not just science. In this article, I employ science, but there's definitely some art