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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.

“Collaboration” is a supply chain buzzword that people often talk about in theory but rarely implement in practice. And yet smart organizations have found big payoffs in collaborations that not only share costs and risks but also rewards.

The PMBOK® Guide–Fourth Edition continues the tradition of excellence in project management with a standard that is even easier to understand and implement, with improved consistency and greater clarification.

Operational excellence is required to make any winning business strategy sustainable, but it is only achieved and sustained through continuous improvement, and these improvements must be real. This book will arm you with the knowledge and methods needed to identify needed change and the tools to implement them, and perhaps most importantly, give you the confidence needed to become an effective change agent.

A complete presentation of closed loop supply chain processes, this book demonstrates the impact it has on all aspect of the supply chain, from product development, to materials, to assembly and profitability. It includes research and case studies from the industries that use the closed loop supply chain methodology and explores how they use its practices to be more environmentally friendly and profitable. The authors cover profitable practices in returned products and recovery of products, designing the reverse logistics network, production planning, marketing strategies for recovered products, and how closed loop supply chain strategies can be used in industries other than manufacturing.

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.

Silicon Valley, facing a slowdown in innovation and a shortage of funding, may lose its competitive advantage to emerging U.S. technology hotbeds such as Huntsville, Alabama, and Washington, D.C., a study found.