For those looking for some supply chain levity in the post Christmas period, you may wish to check out the attached videopost from the China Supply Chain Council. It’s entitled Santa’s Bad Day in Supply Chain or how the little angel came to sit atop the Christmas tree. After watching, I’d say it seems doubly [...]
From EDS: “The transportation industry, both passenger and freight, is in the midst of a major transformation due to the rapidly changing demands of the global marketplace. Consolidation, globalization and ever increasing service level requirements are demanding that companies become more agile and work smarter in order to be competitive in the New Year. As [...]
From cnet.com: “Technology alone is rarely the key to unlocking economic value: companies create real wealth when they combine technology with new ways of doing business.
Through our work and research, we have identified eight technology-enabled trends that will help shape businesses and the economy in coming years. These trends fall within three broad areas of [...]
From vnunet.com: “Next year will witness the spread of RFID applications into familiar, everyday settings, while consumer electronics, wireless technologies and security requirements will continue to benefit from the integration of RFID.
These are just some of the predictions from AIM Global, the worldwide industry trade association and self-proclaimed authority on automatic identification and mobility solutions.
From Business Standard: ” Microsoft India is in advanced talks with 10 leading Indian retailers to roll out its next-generation automated retail tools. The latest from the IT giant firm will offer next-generation automated tools such as mobile billing and smart supply chain management.
These tools will help differentiate a neighborhood retail joint from the large [...]
From RFID Journal: “Several fresh food providers are beginning to use plastic RFID-enabled pallets made by Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS) rather than wooden pallets without RFID tags. Thus far, RFID has helped iGPS better manage the flow of its pallets, through more accurate and timely shipping and receiving records, while end users are still [...]
From JDA: “Paris and London – December 17, 2007 – JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS) today announced that its JDAConnect 2007 EMEA customer event, held November 13 and 14 at the Disneyland Resort in Paris, attracted a diverse group of nearly 200 attendees representing over 90 companies from more than eight different regions. Through [...]
From Business Wire EON: “Blue Sky Logistics, Inc., a leading technology provider of real time, web-based, supply chain visibility dashboards, performance management and alerting software solutions and services, has been recognized as a top technology provider by Food Logistics, a publication dedicated exclusively to covering the movement of product and information through all channels of [...]
Somewhere in the back of my mind I guess I knew it would happen someday, but to be honest I hadn’t really thought that much about the potential of mobile robots being applied to materials handing applications in logistics operations.
I’m not talking about stationary robots that might wrap, stack or invert pallets, those have been [...]
From FT.com: “As companies start to examine the environmental footprint of their supply chains, attention has often focused on transport and logistics. But while the movement of products across the globe is one of the most visible signs of the contribution of supply chains to climate change, many organisations are starting to look for efficiencies [...]
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It is undeniable that strategic sourcing solutions enable companies to achieve significant time and cost savings. In fact, automating sourcing processes and identifying new savings opportunities has become almost a standard in most Global 1000 enterprises. A key to sourcing success is to make sourcing decisions not only based on price, [...]
From eMediawire: ” The latest edition of MIT’s Supply Chain Strategy newsletter, developed by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, suggests that companies should be preparing for carbon labeling. In response to the green trend of environmental responsibility, companies may soon be required to show consumers how much carbon their products have generated.
From Ryder.com: “Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE: R) today announced plans to combine its U.S. and International Supply Chain Solutions (SCS) business operations to form a single, fully integrated organization to serve SCS customers globally. The new structure will formally align SCS expertise, business resources, and management processes, to efficiently support the increasing global sourcing and [...]
