Warranties are a significant cost factor in nearly all industries, even without this kind of tragic construction error: In 2014, U.S. companies alone spent $29 billion on warranty cases!
Recently at VW – The supplier Prevent stopped delivering seat covers, causing a standstill in Passat production until a legal resolution could be found.
Logistics is omnipresent, 24/7: toothpaste in the morning and before bed, the egg at breakfast, the prefabricated concrete components on the construction site, the spare part for the industrial machine – it's all logistics.
Barkawi is more than just a consulting company – it is an incubator for start-ups. Six different companies have been founded within Barkawi Group in recent years, most of them with former Barkawi consultants at the helm.
Watson doesn’t look quite as dinky as the robot in the photo, but what it lacks in looks, it makes up for with smarts: becoming famous by winning Jeopardy in 2011.
A really well-written article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper that makes the topic of logistics and supply chains as easy to understand as Sesame Street!
Quickback – The modern App for praising ‘on the go’. Clever technical support for modern HR management. Half past nine in the morning, Germany. The young colleague comes to his teamleader’s office and delivers research work on his focus topic. His research is excellent! Deeply impressed, the project manager praises his young colleague, thanks him and gives him a clap on his shoulder with a warm “Go on like that!” And forgets to forward his positive feedback to HR.
Barkawi Management Consultants has done it again: the company belongs to the best management consultancies in Germany. The German business magazine "brand eins" and "statista" had conducted a survey among nearly 3,000 customers and experts from the industry. The result: Barkawi has achieved a top-ranking in the category "supply chain management".
Barkawi Management Consultants in North America (Barkawi North America) announces today that the company expects 2015 to bring record-setting financial growth. Since its establishment, Barkawi North America has achieved an average growth rate of over 80% annually. Now in its sixth year, Barkawi North America continues to be highly profitable and is forecasting a revenue increase of over 125% in 2015 as compared to 2014.
To attract the best graduates for consulting in Supply Chain Management- this goal is more important than ever for Barkawi. Therefore, Barkawi is supporting the ISLA Campus "Business meets Science" on March 17th in Hamburg, Germany. Managers of renowned companies will meet leading scientists and up-and-coming managers of tomorrow.
There was a special surprise on Prof. Dr. Bretzke's 70th birthday: a commemorative publication, which however is not a classic commemorative publication, presented by Karim Barkawi and Prof. Dr. Christian Kille in honor of the jubilarian.
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