Welcome
This website aims to provide you with some insight into my current activities in the emerging discipline of supply chain management.
Supply chain management is increasingly recognized as a vital area of organizational and economic activity. No organization exists in isolation and so understanding the interdependencies between members of supply chains and the phenomena that affect the way supply chains perform is a key requirement for effective management.
In the last five years I have been struck by the enormous increase in interest for supply chain management by a very diverse range of organizations including healthcare, banks, the military, oil exploration, auto manufacturers, food corporations, not-for-profit bodies, universities, governments and leisure businesses. Whilst this seems like a very diverse group of industries with little in common, I have found that they all share many common aims and challenges in their strategic management including: ~
- process improvement in every aspect of their operation
- investment in strategic innovation in products, services, processes and organisation
- the challenge of managing collaborative projects
- effective systems integration from sales and marketing right through to product and service design
- concern for ecological, environmental and socially responsible supply chain practices
- and probably paramount at the moment, a critical shortage of educated and experienced professionals in the field of supply chain management.
These concerns and initiatives are changing the way we view supply chain management and are reflected in the conference, publications, courses and consulting activities with which I am now engaged.
I will attempt to develop this site over the coming months, but please realize that it is not intended as a portal to the world, merely as a first point of call for information and access to some of my activities and responsibilities. And, of course, to some of my interests!
