Category Archives: Socks and sandals

I’m a box… and make the world go round

Posted on November 21, 2011 by | Leave a comment

There were some nice videos shown at the last CSCMP conference incl. a singing box that is an integrated part that makes the world go round :-) Here’s the link to I’m a box. And to some other videos as well.

Gyöngyi

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Logistics luminaries

Posted on October 5, 2011 by | 1 Comment

Jim Stock is on to a great project on the history of logistics, interviewing its luminaries. Here’s a link to the videos and their transcripts – though with the note that they cannot be downloaded. There are quite a few memorable ones among them, not the least because of getting a last glimpse of some, e.g. Tom Mentzer and Don Bowersox.

CSCMP now honoured Don Bowersox with naming its doctoral workshop after him (and what a workshop it was!). But the question remains, who is going to interview Jim Stock?

Gyöngyi

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New logistics song: Mr. Logistics

Posted on September 7, 2011 by | 1 Comment

Who says logisticians aren’t creative? Here is a song made by PhD students at LTH. Curtains open for “Mr. Logistics” :-)

It was so hilarious I just had to repost it – thanks PO @ Logistikfokus.

Gyöngyi

 

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Keeping alert! with latest research results

Posted on August 24, 2011 by | 1 Comment

Technology is our friend in receiving alerts on what has been published lately: there are alert e-mails from publishers, even RSS feeds of journals*. You can sign up for your Emerald alerts or access Elsevier theme websites, Inderscience blogs or follow any through facebook/twitter/you name it. I.e., social networks help as well, though still the most targeted are research networks that send out CFPs and TOC alerts. Many of these are specialised, with groups in e.g. SCrisk mgmt sending out their own newsletters etc. And what is new, IJPDLM‘s TOC alerts are now sent out via Elmar as well, extending SCM to marketing scholars and hopefully sparking a debate between disciplines (and avoiding reinventing the wheel).

Gyöngyi

*Admittedly, not on this blog, but I have managed to integrate the feeds of some SCM journals on my academia.edu account :-)

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Posted in Academic journals, Logistics, Socks and sandals, Supply Chain Management

The ash cloud – a déjà vu

Posted on May 24, 2011 by | 2 Comments

Once again an (Icelandic) volcano eruption is disturbing air transportation. This time industry is reacting in a different way, though:

- The Brits have left it up to individual airlines to decide upon cancellations – a bit like the old “truck or snake” dilemma, I reckon, i.e. do you prefer to be hit by technical failures (in mid air when the air plane collapses) or economic ones (back on earth when the airline goes bankrupt).
- Travel agencies want to introduce an insurance against natural disasters (a bit like the home insurances that already exist in this field).
- A movie is been made through facebook on things that happened to people stranded due to the ash cloud a year ago, with people asked to write their own characters. I reckon some more may be added now :-)

Yet the situation of light cancellations, potential impacts on various industries that depend on air transportation, the impact rolling out up- and downstream in the supply chain is quite a déjà vu of April 2010… Or a “bon voyage” moment, as Matti Nykänen would say.

Gyöngyi

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Corporate responsibility through poetry

Posted on May 13, 2011 by | 1 Comment

After SC poetry, here’s corporate responsibility poetry – thanks to Cécile, Maria, Pasi and Veronika from the PhD course on Corporate Responsibility (Apr 2011)!

Flower power

Thank you for bringing us
to this place of dust.
Plastic, chemicals, e-waste
in your backyard, hard.

GMO, conservatives, additives on our plate,
is this now our fate?

Giant industrial production causing erosion,
where were the human emotions
and devotions?
No more bees and honey,
just pure money.

We, as new leaders
have changed the ways of you cheaters.

Shell, Exxon, BP and Chevron
now run with earth, wind, water and flower:
the power of love replaced the love of power.

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Facility location or location around a facility?

Posted on March 7, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Few companies are still as location-bound as mines. Earlier it was agriculture, mining and train tracks defining where people lived. Now train tracks are pretty much out of the equation, at least according to Kotavaara et al. (in press). Agriculture became more global but the recent trend places an emphasis on local food again. So what about mining? When asked about whether they should give up mining or move the entire city, two cities in Sweden decided for the latter: Kiruna (even rerouting railway connections currently) and a part of Malmberget. Back to local… Though it is certainly preferable to move a city than to expose it to (quite predictable) mining accidents.

Gyöngyi

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Rejection anxiety

Posted on February 2, 2011 by | 4 Comments

Upon all the articles on “why I rejected your paper” and books on dissertation writing, finally there is an outlet that deals with rejection anxiety: the Journal of Universal Rejection. It certainly tops all rankings if you base them on acceptance rates :-) What a lovely practical joke on academics.

Gyöngyi

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I’m dreaming of a white Christmas

Posted on December 21, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Or: “Leise rieselt der Schnee...” Christmas carols are full of the snow theme. So are many European airports at this point. To the extent that BBC even reported on how Helsinki airport can manage to keep open with 65 cm snow in December alone whilst others need to close. The lesson is just so familiar in humanitarian logistics: preparedness is key to respond to any disruption.

Gyöngyi

PS. Hope you are all prepared for the holidays and get to spend them with your families in spite of the snow chaos. Lessons from intermodal transportation might help in getting there :-) And if you want to hear the song, here’s the Robbie Williams version of dreaming of a white Christmas.

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We love logistics

Posted on December 7, 2010 by | 1 Comment

Upon discovering that logistics can also be an artist (with fitting song themes such as “warehouse”), “we love logistics” also became a song title. Never mind the commercial, I just love the song :-)

Gyöngyi

PS. kudos to Fiona

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