Inventory up, Japanese cars still rare - This Week in Supply Chain Management (27 / 2011)

Daniel Dumke — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:44:00 +0000

This week has been filled with work on my dissertation, I nearly finished my first chapter. But I have a long flight on Saturday, and so I have some time to fill.

News

Inventory levels at semiconductor suppliers seem to be rising, with memory components up by nearly 15% (iSuppli via Circuits Assembly)
Australians seem to love Japanese cars, since car sales in June fell over 10 percent due to the Japanese disruption. GM seems to be one of the winners with a market share of 13% in June (Reuters)
The Supply Chain Council just announced the agenda for their Executive Summit North America – Reinventing Supply Chain Strategy for Performance and Risk (SCC)

Blogs

Seeking Alpha takes a look at the monthly report by the ISM (Institute for Supply Management) and ponders about the implications for growth and investment (Seeking Alpha)
Mining Weekly has an interview on how to mitigate risks in Africa (Mining Weekly)
I did not know that they still existed, but Psion is still alive… and reports problems with its supply chain leading to a huge drop in the stock price. (Financial Times)
Risk management can be a competitive advantage, a study by Accenture finds (@Risk)

Research

The World Trade Magazine and the University of Tennessee conducted a survey on current supply chain trends. The results indicate that supply risk management is still in an quite early phase (WT 100)
Jan Husdal reviews a dissertation on the risk issues of low cost sourcing in Turkey and China (Jan Husdal)

If you haven’t read my articles of this week, have a look at the following:

Monday: I answered a simple question: What’s better, single sourcing or dual sourcing? It depends, of course!
Wednesday: This week I especially liked my discovery of Flipboard, an iPad application for reading online content I described here.

Enjoy your weekend, next week I’ll be posting from Bangkok.

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