Collection of Supply Chain Discussions via Facebook.

Here are a variety of business and supply chain discussions happening in the Supply Chain Today Facebook group.  People are adding comments to the discussions on a regular basis.  Would love to hear your opinions on any of the discussions below.  Also feel free to create your own discussion.  What type of discussions would you like to see?

Characteristics to qualify a supplier as strategic? (i.e. strategic supplier)

Deming believed we need to drive fear out of the organization.  Why is that important and how do we do that?

Difference between transitional change and transformation change and how do we approach each issue differently?

How does management stimulate creativity and innovation?

How have mobile computing devices and social networking changed supply chain?

In terms of “cost of quality” which is the most costly, internal failures or external failures? Why?

Inventory is evil though a necessary evil. Discuss.

Preferred methods to deal with capacity constraints within the supply chain?

Warehousing is not an end in itself but a means to an end. Discuss.

What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of SMI – supplier managed inventory?

What are we trying to achieve when we build a Value Stream (aka process mapping)?