Supply Chain Quotes
Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices and staffing.
Tags: Credit, Production, Sales ✍ Author: Janet YellenBut that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected.
Tags: Energy, Enough, Fact ✍ Author: Daniel YerginWe live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part of a massive global supply chain. So what if all those chains were suddenly cut, how would you make something? How would you keep people alive? And that was something I wanted to explore.
Tags: Few, Keep, Wanted ✍ Author: Max BrooksWhen you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the way along the supply chain the need for more potatoes to be put on a truck a thousand miles away.
Tags: Along, Away, Put ✍ Author: Stephen ElopWhat is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.
Tags: Off, Political, Religious ✍ Author: Thomas Friedman