Is Cisco Really Driving 21st Century Supply Chain Innovation, metaprise, k.c. wu, oracle, larry ellison, sequential

PI Blogger — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:27:47 +0000

Earlier this year, World Trade Magazine’s Neil Shister wrote an article titled “The 21st Century Supply Chain: Cisco Builds a Supply Chain.”

Beside the article itself, what I found particularly interesting was his adjunct sidebar interview with Cisco’s Vice President, Worldwide Manufacturing Angel Mendez.

Mr. Mendez, who Mr. Shister referred to as a “bona fide star in the supply chain world,” made a number of interesting observations in response to a series of equally interesting questions.

Supply Chain and Procurement Practices Group

Public Sector Procurement Practice and the principles of External Economies, Clustering and the Global Value Chain

PI Blogger — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:54:33 +0000

Can the public sector effectively apply the principles of External Economies to its procurement practice?

“External economies of scale (ES) occur outside of a firm, within an industry. Thus, when an industry’s scope of operations expands due to, for example, the creation of a better transportation network, resulting in a subsequent decrease in costs for a company working within that industry, external economies of scale are said to have been achieved. With external ES, all firms within the industry will benefit.” (What Are Economies of Scale? By Reem Heakal, January 2003)

Supply Chain and Procurement Practices Group

global value chain

Is Cisco Really Driving 21st Century Supply Chain Innovation, metaprise, k.c. wu, oracle, larry ellison, sequential

Public Sector Procurement Practice and the principles of External Economies, Clustering and the Global Value Chain