That ugly sweater you returned? It might not go where you think
There have been reports about retailers destroying returned, unworn merchandise. Others send it to third-party liquidators or donate or recycle it. More and more, returned products are sold at online auctions.
Medical devices become safer thanks to barcodes
Supply Chain Management Professor Eugene Schneller examines the immediate and long-term effects of technological asset tracking in the health care industry.
The point of no returns for online purchases
This holiday season, more shoppers than ever before will forego crowded malls for cyberspace and enjoy the ease and convenience of purchasing gifts from their home computers, tablets, and mobile devices.
Consolidated service centers transform hospital purchasing
Hospitals have long been notorious for their sluggish, antiquated supply chain management. But today, under intense pressure to cut costs while maintaining high-quality care, some are trying a new model — the consolidated service center.
First, empowered consumers: How will the Internet disrupt supply chains next?
Do you remember “You’ve Got Mail”? In the 1998 hit movie, the Internet enables romance to flower between Tom Hanks, who played a big box bookstore owner, and Meg Ryan, an independent bookstore owner. Ironically, that same Internet has now clobbered big box bookstores.
Consumer wearables: Biosensors and health care
Bioscientists, technologists and health care experts talked about current health care challenges and the opportunities to redefine and resolve them at the 2015 Symposium on Innovation in the Health Sector, hosted by the W. P. Carey School’s Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium.
Improving health care: It’s about better execution
Brent James, chief quality officer and executive director at the Intermountain Institute for Healthcare Leadership, gives of examples of how to deliver better health care, cheaper at the 2015 Mark McKenna Health Care Management Lecture, hosted by the Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium
Relief on wheels: Research cuts costs of humanitarian aid
The recent surge of migrants from the war-torn North African coast and the devastating earthquake in Nepal has focused international attention on the needs of refugees and disaster victims.
Growing secondary markets new link in supply chains
Thirty-some years ago, unwanted or unsold products often ended their all-too-brief lives by being dumped in landfills. Today they are the basis of what professor of supply chain management Dale Rogers calls a growing slice of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product: secondary markets.
Year in review: Department of Supply Chain Management
2014 was an important year for the Department of Supply Chain Management. Read about the people, programs and research that makes it a top-ranked program.