Before reading this proposed project outline, I would ask that you suspend your disbelief for a moment as it describes a long term mega-project that could completely transform the global economy between Asia and North America.
I’m sure all of you are familiar with The Chunnel connecting, the UK and Europe, approximately 33 miles long [...]
From RFIDJournal: “Portuguese fashion retailer Throttleman has reduced the time items spend in the supply chain by five to seven days with the use of an RFID system. The solution, provided by systems integrator Creativesystems, and including hardware from Tagsys and Avery Dennison’s Paxar division, allows Throttleman to quickly identify items as they arrive from [...]
The below videoclip on BAM or Business Activity Monitoring based on a recent presentation by Chris Brakel, product manager, eBusiness, Microsoft Canada, explains the BAM concept and some of its’ applications in an easy to understand manner.
Three other articles from the SCN site which highlight BAM or Supply Chain Visibility are:
Clarifying Supply Chain Visibility Terms
Benefit [...]
From CNNMoney.com: “The supply chain gang is back in business. Makers of supply chain management software fought a rough spending climate as tech budgets froze in the early 2000s. But over the past year, many of these companies have come back with solid growth and higher stock prices. Manhattan Associates MANH, JDA Software Group (NASDAQ:JDAS) [...]
We have reviewed and covered many new developments and industry initiatives here at SupplyChainNetwork.com and we would now like to make this contribution to creating and initially organizing one more. Logistics Synergy has in the past been the result of internal corporate projects and merger or acquisition activities which came about more due to being [...]
The Canadian Office Products Association and Supply Chain Network have agreed to work jointly on an in depth study of the potential for Physical Consolidation of deliveries in the Office Products Industry. Although this study should show benefit to all delivery locations, those vendors delivering direct to store are expected to see even greater benefits [...]
Over the last several years there have been many investigations of the application of RFID in various industries. Two themes which have emerged as key to the successful and cost effective implementation of this technology are high product value and high control/security requirements.
Obviously, these are both present in the Jewellery Industry, making it a prime [...]
Data synchronization and the creation on an industry supported electronic catalogue is a critical prerequisite to facilitate electronic trading in the distilling industry. Whether it’s simply EDI or electronic data interchange or more advanced applications such as Radio Frequency Identification or RFID, an electronic catalogue is the foundation technology required to ensure the success of [...]
From Business Week: “Eight months after U.S. retailer Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) announced plans to enter the booming $350 billion Indian retail market, it has finally signed an agreement with its joint venture partner Bharti Enterprises in New Delhi. Together, they will set up 15 wholesale cash-and-carry stores over the next seven years. Focusing on the [...]
Since the inception of SupplyChainNetwork.com in 2006 we have been following, reporting on and writing thought leadership pieces on measuring the carbon footprint of supply chains and on Creating Carbon Neutral Supply Chains.
Over the past six months, the momentum in what was a relatively new area of discussion has accelerated and continues to gain momentum, [...]
From Industry Week: “A majority of supply chain executives polled in a recent study by eyefortransport said that greening their transporation and logistic functions were top priorities. Currently green issues hold the top spot for 10% of the executives surveyed.
“Greening is fundamentally a co-operative process, with a majority of successful green initiatives being based [...]
From logisticsmanager.com: “Unilever has announced plans for a major supply chain restructuring. Patrick Cescau, group chief executive said the business would be reorganised into a series of multi-country organisations. “We already have the clustering of smaller countries in places like Central America and the Nordic region. It has worked well. But we now have [...]
Source Canada News Wire: As part of its company-wide sustainability program, Wal-Mart Canada is spearheading collaboration among supply-chain companies to measure and reduce the environmental footprint of its product shipping process and logistics network. The company announced today it will introduce its first ever Supply Chain Sustainability Scorecard
this fall to assess its network of service [...]
