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Business attitudes across the globe — jarred by the European sovereign debt crisis, sagging consumer confidence and continuing market fluctuations — are vacillating between confidence and caution, and volatility is likely to remain a permanent feature of the global business environment. While the financial crisis revealed key vulnerabilities of an interconnected global economy, it has also provided a needed catalyst in helping organizations create more dynamic, resilient and responsive supply chains to. A clear majority of leading industrial companies still see cost as their main priority while managing supply chains, despite emerging evidence that excessive focus on cost has damaged relationships. A majority of the leading industrial manufacturing companies have created supply chain models that appropriately balance agility, sensitivity to risk, quality and cost. They plan to enter into more long-term contracts with fewer suppliers — with cost being the key driver for much of the collaboration. Read our report to find out how leading companies are adapting their business models and employing new supply chain tactics to manage risk while capitalizing on opportunities.

The Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum is a leading research institute in partnership with industry and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University that advances the theory and practice of excellence in global supply chain management. Working with approximately 25 industrial organizations, the Forum is actively engaged with a broad cross-section of leading and emerging industries to identify, document, research, develop, and disseminate best practices in a dynamic and increasingly global economic business environment.

The concept of supplier risk management is still relatively new, as business strategies go. But in the era of global sourcing and volatile markets, supplier risk management is rapidly becoming every bit as necessary to global supply chains as in-house corporate risk management.

Oce Business Services, a leader in document process management and electronic discovery services, has been named to the top-ranked Leaders category of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals' (IAOP®) 2011 Global Outsourcing 100® list. The list defines the standard of excellence in outsourcing service delivery. This is the fifth straight year in which Oce Business Services has been ranked a Leader in The Global Outsourcing 100.