RSS Feeds Submission Directory
Careers
Impact Project Areas
Industry Analysts
Logistics/SCM
Materials Handling
Procurement
Administration
Want to know where the food on your table comes from and who has handled it? Then you’ll want to register for this event. Food safety encompasses the origin, processing and packaging of food so that consumers don’t get sick from the food they buy. Increased food production, growing market demand and faster delivery are [...]
NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today (July 20th) announced that Precor Home Fitness deployed NetSuite for its end-to-end wholesale/distribution business needs. The solution is used for managing business operations across retail and commercial sales throughout the Western United States, including three retail locations in the [...]
The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) released its 22nd “Annual State of Logistics Report®,” presented by Penske Logistics, today at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The report reveals that business logistics costs rose to 8.3 percent of U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2010, as compared to [...]
Checkpoint Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CKP), a leading global supplier of shrink management, merchandise visibility and apparel labeling solutions for the retail industry, today announced here at NRF Loss Prevention Conference & Expo its RFID Overhead EAS Solution, delivering benefits both for loss prevention and inventory visibility at the point-of-exit. This solution includes overhead RFID hardware with [...]
NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today (June 7th) announced that the company has extended its cloud-based business management suite with new demand planning features. Designed to enable wholesalers, manufacturers, retailers, and distributors to achieve best-in-class inventory management practices, NetSuite Demand Planning enables companies to forecast [...]
Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in February for the 19th consecutive month, and the overall economy grew for the 21st consecutive month, say the nation’s supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report On Business®. The report was issued today by Norbert J. Ore, CPSM, C.P.M., chair of the Institute for Supply Management™ [...]
From Bangkok Post: “Year-end roundups are all the rage this week, so we thought it apt to do the same for supply chain management. SCM has received more mainstream attention this year than ever before. Not that it has been a cover story in the media, but within both public and private sector organisations the [...]
Recently I was asked the question, “How do I take the steps to become more demand driven?” It prompted this response. Demand-driven value networks sense and shape demand to deliver the profitable demand response. This is a stark contrast to traditional supply chains that match demand with supply, but are blind to profitability and true [...]
ICON-SCM, a leader in supply chain planning software, today announced that it has signed a global reseller agreement with SAP AG (NYSE: SAP). Under this agreement, SAP, including all its subsidiaries, has worldwide rights to resell Icon-SCM’s Supply Chain Planning solution. The solution is available immediately, branded by SAP as the SAP® Supply Chain Response [...]
According to Aberdeen Research, retailers are currently expected to purchase a total of 300 million RFID labels this year. This can be attributed to a market shift from more compliance-base tracking to item-level tagging, as well as more affordable tag and reader costs. One of the greatest benefits of item-level tagging for the retail industry [...]
In my last post, I likened sourcing complex categories to solving a Rubik’s Cube, making the case that not all sourcing events are alike and that only by first understanding the unique starting point, i.e., the problem to be solved, can companies learn to collaborate with suppliers for the best possible solution. Logistics represents a [...]
A paradigm shift is required for the acquisition and product support of COTS configured weapon systems. Over the last several years there has been a marked increase in the use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components in configuring new weapon systems. This initiative has been driven by Commanders in-theater requiring the rapid fielding of new weapon systems [...]
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 [...]
Terra Technology (www.terratechnology.com), the leading provider of demand sensing and inventory optimization solutions for consumer products companies, today (Oct 13th) announced that ConAgra Foods, one of North America’s leading food companies, has selected Terra’s Multi-Enterprise Demand Sensing (MDS) solution to reduce inventory and improve customer service.
Verical, Inc., the Electronic Components Marketplace, today announced the production launch of its online trading platform for global high tech manufacturers and distributors of electronic components. Countering major risks to the high tech supply chain, the Verical Marketplace uses information and technology to create a unique pedigree scoring system for component parts available in its [...]
Smart Software, Inc., provider of industry-leading demand forecasting, planning, and inventory optimization solutions, today (September 15th, 09) announced that SupplyChainBrain (formerly Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies) has chosen the company for its list of “100 Great Supply Chain Partners” for the fourth year in a row. Smart was nominated for this distinction by several [...]
In a perfect world, component buyers would never have a shortage, forecasts would be accurate and authorized channels would always have stock. Sadly, we live in the real world where markets are volatile and manufacturers face recurring shortages. Longer supply chains, more players, more volatile markets, more counterfeit parts. These forces are changing the risk [...]
From cnn.com: “More than one-third of all weapons the United States has procured for Afghanistan’s government are missing, according to a government report released Thursday. The U.S. military failed to “maintain complete inventory records for an estimated 87,000 weapons — or about 36 percent — of the 242,000 weapons that the United States procured and [...]
