Monday, September 10, 2012

Supply Chain Visualization

From the readings this week we learned about the importance of data driven decisions in managing inventory in a supply chain, but what do you do when it is time to display your data? Sourcemap.com offers a great visualization tool. Here is an example of Toms: the shoe maker with the One for One program that sends a pair of shoes to a developing region for every purchase of a pair in a developed region (please excuse the pejorative use of "developed").