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Automation 2.0

Yesterday the AMR team met with Rockwell Automation's senior leadership group including CEO Keith Nosbusch to spend an entire day digging into the trends and challenges in today's manufacturing automation market.  Nosbusch is a graduate of University of Wisconsin's electrical and computer engineering program, and a 35 year veteran of...

Tags: Automation, Nosbusch, Manufacturing, Kevin O'Marah

Blog posts 2009-05-16

China and IP: the piper will get paid

As everyone knows, and as our quarterly supply chain risk data proves, China is a den of thieves as far as IP is concerned.  Today's New York Times has a lengthy and prominent article on brand piracy in Shenzhen's cell phone industry.  The practice of making and selling black market...

Tags: Brand, Branding, Business Operations, China, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, IP, Kevin O'Marah, Marketing, Network Technology, Networking, Piracy, Software, Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Cydia and Apple: Lawsuits will be a sideshow

Today’s Wall Street Journal has a big article about a new renegade competitor that is challenging Apple’s App Store and in the process whetting the appetites of IP lawyers. With all due respect to the legal eagles involved, technology and the global supply chain should make this debate moot.  ...

Tags: Supply Chain, Lawsuit, Apple Inc., Cydia, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Kevin O'Marah

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Tech and the global supply chain â€" Who’s the MVP for work over the past ten years?

At AMR Research we constantly study the question of applying technology to supply chain to make it work better.  Lots of old-school Lean freaks like to believe process is everything, sometimes implying that technology doesn’t really matter.  I dispute this.  Neither works well without the other, but it is certainly...

Tags: Supply Chain, I2 Technologies Inc., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Kevin O'Marah

Blog posts 2009-02-20

Peanut recall and supply chain worries

As the Peanut Corp. of America scandal rolls on, a new bit of information has thickened the plot: Chinese organic peanuts may have been the source of another Salmonella outbreak at PCA back in 2006.  Now that China is part of the story we have a full blown worst practice...

Tags: China, Supply Chain, Sourcing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Management, Kevin O'Marah

Blog posts 2009-02-19