I talk with Tony Pittman about "Services Supply Chains" and how that is similar to, and different from, product oriented supply chains. Tony shares with us some of the unique and interesting challenges associated with this, and then he turns the tables on me, asking what students say when we start talking about services rather than products. We also talk about how Tony went from engineering to supply chains.

I talk once again with Gyöngyi Kovács, using the magic of Skype, about Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chains. To learn more about Professor Kovács, visit her profile at http://www.hanken.fi/staff/kovacs/. She has a strong research and personal interest in sustainment, and in humanitarian supply chain issues. Visit http://humloggroup.org to learn more.

We chat with Dr Peter Swan from Penn State University, in Harrisburg. His recent study (with Michael Belzer of Wayne State University) found that increased privatization of highways may increase the traffic on what are perceived to be free roads (of course, they carry costs--just not directly billed.)

According to a Penn State press release:

The number of diverted trucks is important to both the State of Ohio and the nation for economic and social reasons.

I talk with Gyöngyi Kovács, using the magic of Skype, about Sustainable Supply Chains, and what it means to focus on sustainment as a core principle in supply chain management. To learn more about Professor Kovács, visit her profile at http://www.hanken.fi/staff/kovacs/. She has a strong research and personal interest in sustainment, and in humanitarian supply chain issues. Visit http://humloggroup.org to learn more.

This is the second half of Kate Vitasek's presentation on Performance Based Logistics at CSCMP in Philadelphia. Kate is the founder, and Managing Partner, of Supply Chain Visions. You can reach Kate via email at: kate@scvisions.com

Part one of Kate Vitasek's presentation on Performance Based Logistics at CSCMP 2007 in Philadelphia. Kate is the founder, and Managing Partner, of Supply Chain Visions.

I presented my paper on Podcasting in Supply Chain Education. The paper received the "Teaching Innovation Award" for best paper in teaching innovations.

From the paper:

DC Velocity has published a great article pointing out the way in which logistics (and by extension, supply chain management) comes through time and time again--and occasionally with a high profile effort. In this case, the author writes about the logistics efforts that were essential to the successful roll-out of the latest, and final, Harry Potter book.

Many of you have recently found this site, either through comments on Linked-In, or other sources. I wanted to take a minute to welcome you to this site, and ask that you take a minute to look around, and ask yourself: "How can I contribute, and help the Supply Chain Community?"

I have a few ideas, and I wanted to share them with you.

First, this site is provided as a free service to professionals and academics in the Supply Chain and Logistics arenas to encourage the exchange of ideas, and hopefully foster creativity, and friendships. That said, how can YOU help?

For those of you that have been wondering how we can have serious discussions on this board, without the ability to embed Math Equations (yeah, I know--the FIRST thought you had!) I have now included the latest in website goodness--the Math Equation Editor!

So if you want to display:

For more information on how to format the equations for printing, visit this site at forkosh.com What is important to remember though, is that you don't use the img tag, but rather, use the tex tag (see the specific information on the tags