Supply Chain Management Cases

Unlike conventional supply chain, green supply chains are designed to ensure that the creation of value, not the risk and wastes generated at every stage, from design to recycling and recovery. As a primer, this note for students, MBA, and executive students learn the corporate response to environmental degradation, increased energy and materials prices and […]

Managers increasingly recognize the benefits of the traditional supply chain – lower costs, faster delivery and better quality – do not, in themselves, sufficient for today’s market. The new paradigm is more complex supply chains, which also serves as a tool to create and maintain competitive advantage in the delivery of results. Thus, the parties […]

The country’s largest corporations have got a bump on the road of their way to factoring sustainability into their choice of transport. Despite pressure from customers and investors, and the prospect evervolatile energy costs, only 9% of the Fortune 500 companies include environmental targets in their public filings. The study of these 44 companies shows […]

While recent recalls and scares have focused largely on the Chinese-made toys and food, the question of the safety of products covers a wide range of Chinese goods. Supply chain in China is characterized by price pressure and quality fade, multiple levels of outsourcing often involving small producers, a large number of counterfeit products, the […]