Must See TV: New Supply Chain Sitcom?

Well, you won't see this sitcom on NBC after Heroes on Thursday nights, but that shouldn't stop you from checking out the new series from Kinaxis.  More specifically, the folks at Kinaxis, are using social media to get some name recognition in the clouded field of supply chain solutions with a new, amusing and entertaining online sitcom called Married to the Job.  The show revolves around four colleagues each with a supply chain job role.  In the first episode the team leader and director of supply chain gives some poor advice to the supply manager and the sloppy demand manager. A little miscommunications takes place, chaos ensues and we wait to see what happens next in a future episode.    I can only salute the creativity here, because it certainly supports what I have been doing with this blog, which is to make supply chains understood by all.  So thumbs up Kinaxis, I look forward to the next webisode.

Recognition in India for Supply Chains Rock

When I started this blog several years ago my intent was to give it a good effort for a few months, but I never thought that I would still be doing it to this day. Besides my passion for supply chains and the hits that the blog continues to generate, I am also driven by this blogs ability to generate new interest in the supply chain profession. For this reason I was thrilled to get a package yesterday from Hory Sankar Mukerjee in India who recently had an informative and educational textbook published called Industrial Marketing.

In Chapter 11 Hory focuses on marketing logistics and supply chain management and he dives deeper into the value of logistics channels, inventory holding and the future of supply chain management. In this chapter Hory reprints, with my permission two of my blog posts, one on using wind power for logistics and the other about suply chain innovation. This is a great honor. If that wasn't enough, the proceeds of the book will support educating the deprived children in India, who cannot afford to go to school.

To download a high resolution cover and the table of contents I have hosted them within the IBM Greenhouse, a free, new cloud computing tool.

Shipping my stuff one more time.

First, some exciting news. After nearly two years of exciting work at IBM's Global Delivery Center in Brno, Czech Republic I am on the move again. This time I am planting my feet just outside of Zurich, Switzerland in the town of Ruschlikon where I will be working at IBM's fabled Research Lab. But don't worry, I'll still be supporting this blog because after all supply chains certainly don't have boundaries and no matter what job I'm in they will certainly be apart of my world.

Which brings me to the topic of my post. After failing to ship my Mini Cooper over two years ago I'm at it again, but this time with much lighter cargo. About 5 years ago I found this great 1960's era metal desk that I have treasured and it would really complement my new flat here. So working with Planes International, the same 3PL I tried to use for shipping my car, I am shipping my desk, a carpet, my bike and some framed wall art. At first it was a little frustrating. Planes sent me the dimensions of the crate that I would use, but or me it was hard to visualize a 80 x 80 x 20 crate so I asked for a photo, which wasn't available. Long story short, I found a photo of a similar crate online and gave it the green light. In total it should take 30 days from my parents house on Long Island, NY to my flat here in Switzerland. Above is the photo of the truck, which inside you can see the empty crate.