Thomas George Sternberg founded the Staples office supply chain with an American reporter and businessman, who founded Fresh Fields, and what other chain?
Nature's Heartland
Thomas G. Stemberg
Thomas George Stemberg (January 18, 1949 – October 23, 2015) was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.
 He was a pioneer of the office supplies superstore industry, most notably for founding office supply retail chain Staples Inc. with Leo Kahn.
Leo Kahn (entrepreneur)
Leo Kahn (December 31, 1916 – May 11, 2011) was an American reporter and businessman.
 He is credited as the co-founder of Staples Inc. Kahn is also considered a pioneer of the natural and health food supermarket industry, founding the Fresh Fields and Nature's Heartland chains, which are now part of Whole Foods Market.
LARG SCM
LARG Supply Chain Management attempts to put together Lean, Agile, Resilient, and Green approaches in Supply Chain Management.
 Lean Supply Chain Managements aims are to maintain close to zero inventories and reduce work-in-process; Agile goes for quick responses to customer inquiries and market changes while controlling costs and quality; Resilience is about reacting quickly to disruptions impacting supply chain; and Green refers to sustainability in supply chain through low emissions to the environment and a recycling strategy for products. DHL Supply Chain
DHL Supply Chain is a division of Deutsche Post DHL and is affiliated with DHL Express.
 Headquartered in Bonn, Deutsche Post has 510,000 employees.
 The Supply Chain division comprises two business units – Supply Chain and Williams Lea Tag.
 In the Supply Chain business, DHL provides contract logistics solutions along the entire supply chain for customers from a wide variety of sectors.
 Williams Lea Tag, with headquarters in London, UK, is a global provider of business process outsourcing and a specialist in corporate information solutions, the management of companies’ information and communication processes. Supply chain collaboration
In supply chain management, supply chain collaboration is defined as two or more autonomous firms working jointly to plan and execute supply chain operations.
 It can deliver substantial benefits and advantages to its partners.
 It has been known as a cooperative strategy when one or more companies or business units work together to create mutual benefits.
 There are two main types of supply chain collaboration, vertical collaboration and horizontal collaboration.
 Vertical collaboration is the collaboration when two or more organizations from different levels or stages in supply chain share their responsibilities, resources, and performance information to serve relatively similar end customers; while horizontal collaboration is an inter-organizational relationship between two or more companies at the same level or stage in the supply chain in order to allow greater ease of work and cooperation towards achieving a common objective. Global supply chain governance
There is not always a distinction made between supply chain management and global supply chain governance though they are fundamentally different.
<ref name="Diff b/w"> </ref> Supply chain management (SCM) is the actions taken to manage the system from within.
 It deals with the flow of materials through the global supply chain to ensure that the system produces efficiently per capita.
 Both systems are working to improve the efficiency of the global supply chain, the difference is that SCM deals with the products in the system and their efficiency in the system.
 SCG focus on the system as a whole and the interactions between firms. Staples (Canada)
Staples Canada Inc. (also known in Quebec as Bureau en Gros; formerly known as The Business Depot and later Staples Business Depot) is a Canadian office supply retail chain, part of the United States-based office supply company Staples Inc. The Canadian operation is headquartered in Richmond Hill, Ontario. LogicTools
LogicTools Inc. provides strategic supply chain optimization software.
 It offers a suite of supply chain planning solutions, including network design and planning, supply chain and inventory planning and optimization solutions, supply chain scheduling applications, distribution and stocking solution, and production sourcing and asset planning solutions.
 It serves consumer packaged goods, distribution, high-tech, manufacturing, process and chemical, and retail industries.
 The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
 Since April 11, 2007, LogicTools has been a subsidiary of ILOG, which became an IBM company in January 2009.
 On March 31, 2015, LLamasoft acquired the IBM ILOG supply chain applications, which includes IBM ILOG Inventory and Product Flow Analyst, IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE, and IBM ILOG Transportation Analyst. Supply-chain operations reference
Supply-chain operations reference (SCOR) model is a process reference model developed and endorsed by the Supply Chain Council as the cross-industry, standard diagnostic tool for supply chain management, according to the APICS Dictionary (14th ed.)
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 The SCOR model describes the business activities associated with satisfying a customer's demand, which include plan, source, make, deliver, and return.
 Use of the model includes analyzing the current state of a company's processes and goals, quantifying operational performance, and comparing company performance to benchmark data.
 SCOR has developed a set of metrics for supply chain performance, and Supply Chain Council members have formed industry groups to collect best practices information that companies can use to elevate their supply chain models. Global Supply Chain Management
In commerce, Global Supply Chain Management (GSCM) is defined as the distribution of goods and services throughout a trans-national companies' global network in order to maximize profit and minimize waste.
 Essentially, global supply chain management is the same as supply chain management, but it focuses on companies and organizations that are trans-national.
 Global supply chain management has six main areas of concentration: logistics management, competitor orientation, customer orientation, supply chain coordination, supply management, and operations management.
 These six areas of concentration can be divided into four main areas: marketing, logistics, supply management, and operations management.
 Successful management of a global supply chain also requires complying with various international regulations set by a variety of non-governmental organizations (e.g.
 The United Nations).