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Aberdeen Group Confirms Expert Speaker Line-up for Annual Supply Chain Management Summit

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), announces the confirmed speaker lineup for its annual Supply Chain Management Summit on April 13-14 in San Francisco, CA. In partnership with Logistics Management, SCM World, and Supply Chain Management Review, the theme of this year’s Summit is Proactive Supply Chain Strategies for 2010 and Beyond.
Featuring Aberdeen’s Nari [...]

Four Soft Participating in Leading Retail & Consumer Products Event RILA Logistics 2010

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Four Soft Limited, (NSE: “FOURSOFT”, BSE 532521), a global leader offering software solutions for Logistics and transportation, is participating in the Logistics 2010 event organized by the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) in Orlando, Florida, between the 21st and 23rd of February 2010. Retail logistics represents one of the largest and most complex global logistics [...]

Retail Industry Leaders Association’s (RILA) Logistics Conference 2010 promises to deliver exceptional value

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

The Retail Industry Leaders Association’s (RILA) Logistics Conference is the undisputed leader for retail and consumer product executives in logistics distribution and supply chain management. The conference brings together representatives of all major retail and consumer product segments, along with relevant solutions providers. Top supply chain executives and their teams from the largest, fastest growing [...]

FFIFA ~ Alliance for global standards & best practices

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Four Soft Limited, India (NSE: “FOURSOFT”, BSE 532521), a global leader offering software solutions for transportation and logistics, today announced that it is bringing top players of the logistics industry on a single platform to form a strategic initiative - FFIFA(Freight Forwarding Industry & Four Soft Alliance). The objective of FFIFA is to provide a [...]

Walmart forms strategic alliance with Li & Fung

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

From LM: “When Walmart Stores, Inc. announced yesterday that it formed a strategic alliance with Li & Fung, both sides declared victory. Besides this deal, Walmart’s new sourcing strategy involves the creation of Global Merchandising Centers, and a change in leadership and structure. “The newly-established Global Merchandising Centers represent the largest and most important element [...]

New agreement for global supply chain models at Nestlé

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Barloworld Supply Chain Software wins contract for global CAST implementation 12 January 2010 - Nestlé has selected Barloworld Supply Chain Software for supply chain modelling, network design and optimisation. Barloworld Supply Chain Software will implement its CAST software on a global scale - a powerful, desktop based application to evaluate and identify different supply chain [...]

6th Annual CSCMP European Conference March 24-26 Rotterdam

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) will hold its sixth annual European conference and research seminar in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, March 24-26, 2010.
“We have created a truly unique event with a keynote address by one of Europe’s leading supply chain executives, cutting edge supply chain education, the release of Massachusetts Institute of Technology [...]

Three Certainties in Life: Death, Taxes, and the Forecast is Wrong

Monday, December 21st, 2009

We all know demand variability and predictability are a daily reality for high tech manufacturers. The up-coming holiday season brings its own challenges for the manufacturers of consumer electronics. This year, it looks like it may be compounded by an earlier than expected uptick in underlying demand across most high tech sectors. Just this Monday [...]

Supply Chain Industry Veteran Greg Cronin Joins Quiet Logistics

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Quiet Logistics today announced that Greg Cronin, a veteran supply chain industry entrepreneur and executive, has joined the company as vice chairman and executive vice president. In this role, Cronin will be responsible for sales, marketing, business development and customer care. In addition, Cronin will oversee Quiet Logistics’ Advisory Board focused on [...]

Companies Struggle With Integration and Coordination Across Complex Partner Networks As Business Interdependence Increases Globally

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Executives worldwide are struggling with the challenges of integration and collaboration across complex networks of business partners and customers in a more interdependent business world, according to a new study released today by the Business Performance Management (BPM) Forum and the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council. The study finds that 21st Century business models [...]

The Social Supply Chain, An Interview with Jeff Ashcroft

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Some may call this shameless self-promotion however it’s actually social media I want to promote and I just happen to be the vehicle in this case. With this in mind, I’m sharing with you all the interview I did recently with Constance Korol of the Institute for Business Forecasting, hope you enjoy it… ” I [...]

Combating Counterfeiters in the Global Supply Chain

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

From Industry Week: “Product counterfeiting is a multi-billion-dollar underground economy that poses a serious threat to the legitimate global economy, including commerce and the public’s safety. Many North American manufacturers have exported the production and assembly of their products to different parts of the world to maximize profits. Consequently, they grapple with long, complex supply [...]

On Twitter and in the Workplace, It’s Power to the Connectors

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

From Harvard Business: “In the World According to Twitter, giving away access to information rewards the giver by building followers. The more followers, the more information comes to the giver to distribute, which in turn builds more followers. The process cannot be commanded or controlled; followers opt in and out as they choose. The results [...]

APICS The Association for Operations Management and the University of North Carolina Wilmington Release Operations Management Employment Outlook: 12-Month Hiring Outlook Improved Over Second Quarter Outlook

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

APICS The Association for Operations Management and the Cameron School of Business at the University of North Carolina Wilmington released the third quarterly APICS Operations Management Employment Outlook today. Data reported in the October 2009 survey indicate that 51 percent of survey respondents with hiring responsibility anticipate hiring staff in the next 12 months and [...]

New Book Takes Aim at Supply Chain Risk

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

From scmr.com: “As their operations grow more global and complex, companies are becoming increasingly worried about disruptions to their supply chains. The big challenge they encounter, says Gary S. Lynch of Marsh Inc., is identifying the potential risks and then effectively managing them. Lynch’s new book, Single Point of Failure, sets forth ten “laws” of [...]

North American Manufacturers Cite High Level of Supply Chain Risk

Monday, November 9th, 2009

From Industry Week: “More than one-third of North American manufacturers, responding to a MFGWatch survey, say they’ve experienced a significant supply chain disruption in the past three months. When asked if they or their customers had experienced a significant supply chain disruption in the past three months, 38% of both buy-side and supply-side manufactures indicated [...]

Risk and Uncertainty in Supply Chain Management

Monday, November 9th, 2009

From husdal.com: ” I’ve searched and scoured numerous academic journals in order to find literature I can use for this blog. Sometimes my readers help me and suggest articles I am not yet aware of, and sometimes I stumble upon them myself, accidentally. Today I stumbled upon a 2004 working paper from the Copenhagen Business [...]

Xerox Scientists Develop “Silver Bullet” Needed to Replace Silicon Circuits with Low-Cost, Durable Plastic

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

From Xerox.com: “With the development of a new silver ink, Xerox scientists have paved the way for commercialization and low-cost manufacturing of printable electronics. Printable electronics offers manufacturers a very low-cost way to add “intelligence” or computing power to a wide range of surfaces such as plastic or fabric. This development will aid the commercialization [...]

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