The Toyota and Boeing stories underscore starkly contrasted approaches to outsourcing, supply chain management, and the quality management needed in a marketplace where public fears fester each time a serious product risk is traced to a foreign source.
During much of that time, I had a front-row seat inthe deliberations of senior management as to how the business should be positioned in a changing military marketplace.
Each farm and producer listed inthemarketplace receives an Internet based logistics management system to track harvest, packing, routes, and member payment.
If plan sponsors agree that the goal is to encourage the development of successful minority-owned asset management businesses, then they should look for a manager-of-managers that could not only assist these firms in gathering assets but also in negotiating their way through the treacherous waters of the institutional asset managementmarketplace.