Industry Focus
Each industry has its own specific supply chain management challenges and issues. The articles on this page will examine how decisions that are made in specific industries such as automotive, retail, pharmaceuticals, apparel and energy.
Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) are followed by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to ensure that their items are manufactured to specific requirements. This article is an introduction to the regulations that govern the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and bioligicals in the US.
The supply chain was something that pharmaceutical companies did see as being as important as getting drugs to the market. However this article shows how the supply chain is now of greater importance to pharmaceutical companies.
In today’s retail and consumer products environment consumers rule. This explosive transformation of consumer demand is driving complexity and cost into the supply chain at exactly the same time retailers need to invest more in meeting consumer needs. This article describes how retailers can meet these challenges by building specialized supply chain models that are fast, responsive and low cost.
The large automotive manufacturers and suppliers have developed expansive computer systems that don't allow any collaboration. The US automotive industry has to change to survive as a result of the high price of gas. This article examines the need to bring the automotive supply chain online and out in the open.
For Aerospace companies, integrating suppliers and customers to capture supply chain efficiencies and effectiveness is critical. The authors of this article explain that knowing this fact and doing it are two different matters.
Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) televisions are reshaping the global television industry, but the expansion is also impacting the wider electronics business. The author of this article shows how the growth of LCD's has affected the electronics supply chain through semiconductor production, the global chip market and even contract manufacturing.
