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Maximize Profit For Your Strategic Global Manufacturing And Distribution Planning Process
In a recent article in the Journal of Business Logistics, we presented a strategic planning methodology for multi-national manufacturing and distribution...
Strategies for High-Yield Working Capital in Today's Economic Environment
Bank lending tightening for large and mid-market firms; small business under substantial borrowing pressure. Quotes like this one from the Federal Reserve...
Does the World Need Another Supply Chain Application
AMR Research has stated the problem, “Brand owners need better visibility into and control of the outsourced supply networks, but current technology options are not up to the task.“...
Greening in the Warehouse
Brett Wood, president of Toyota Material Handling USA (TMHU), says there is a green awareness in the material handling industry he hasn't seen before....
Strategic Planning: An Executive's Aid for Strategic Thinking, Development and Deployment
Strategic planning is an ongoing process and carries an intense customer/community, shareholder, and employee focus. The strategic planning process provides...
Is there such a thing as Six Sigma Lite?
Given the intensifying scrutiny on Six Sigma, we offer the following perspective on its effectiveness, scale and alternative approaches...
2008 Cross-Docking Trends Report
Today’s customer-driven economy has transformed the logistics industry. To compete effectively, suppliers are recognizing they must do business their customer’s way...
7 Steps to Transportation Management Excellence Part 2
The first installment of this two-part series pointed out that many firms are spending more on freight transportation than necessary...
7 Steps to Transportation Management Excellence
For many firms, their current capabilities in transportation management are incomplete and they are, therefore, spending more money on freight transportation than necessary...
Prophesy and BestTransport Announce Partnership
Utilizing Prophesy's load-building and route-optimization system, BestTransport extends its execution technology into the automated planning area, the...
Sirit to Acquire RSI ID Technologies
RSI ID Technologies is a vertical manufacturer of antennas, inlays and tags for specialized, passive RFID applications. The combination with Sirit's readers...
Access Business Group Selects WMS
The company processes over 15 million packages per year and supports the number-one-rated health and beauty shopping Website. The RedPrarie warehouse...
Focus on Visibility
It sounds almost like sacrilege to hear True Value Companys Steve Poplawski say that tools alone won't solve your supply chain problems. For me, it is...
Wal-Mart Says Use RFID Tags or Pay Up
The first place in the Wal-Mart supply chain to feel the fee is the Texas Sams Club warehouse outlet distribution center. In Wal-Marts view, the fee is...
Keeping Pace With Track and Trace
US businesses inventories have topped $1 trillion for the last several years. Keeping track of all of those goods and the assets associated with them...
Visibility Makes Service More than Bearable
One of the things we knew right off the bat was that we understand gift delivery but we recognized that our grower partners are the experts at shipping...
Saving for the Carrier Saves for the Shipper
Providing customers with freight status data is critical to the success enjoyed by Wessin Transport, Inc. (www.wessintransport.com). The company is an...
Predicted Move to Active RFID Developing
Aberdeen Group reported in January 2006 that while only 8% of manufacturers had adopted active RFID at that time, 48% planned to do so. Most were foregoing...
Tech Gift Furthers RFID Training
Psions donation will support a foundation course in the electrical engineering track that is designed to provide fundamentals in RFID technology and its...
Dimensioning Takes Shape
"Carriers have always said if customers want to go to a density-based system that didn't have a class element, we would do that. ABF introduced a density-based...
Picking Up the PiecesSmartly
Of technologies available to automate warehouse operations, pick-to-light enjoys success by boosting picker productivity with increased speed and accuracy...
TMS Right Now
When the enterprise is as wide as the country and the number of plants and shipments are large by any measure, getting control of the shipping function...
Echo Global Logistics Acquires Freight Management Software Company
Echo Global Logistics, Inc., a privately held provider of transportation management services, acquired SelecTrans, LLC, a freight management software...
Risks Multiply With IT Investments
As companies continuously strive to lower costs, reduce assets and improve quality, their supply chains are transformed, often faster than their ability...
From Stable to Table
When bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was discovered in Canada, Atlantic Beef Products (ABP, www.abpi.ca) managers decided they needed to protect...
Tech Firm Offers 10+2 Compliance
Freightgate has announced its Compliance-Trek! compliance management system, now supports the new US Customs and Border Protection 10+2 Importer Security Filing requirements...
MOL Renews GT Nexus e-commerce Portal
Mitsui OSK Lines, Ltd. (MOL) has renewed and expanded its agreement with GT Nexus for e-commerce services through the GT Nexus trade and logistics portal...
ADSI Makes Second Acquisition in 6 Months
ADSI announced the acquisition of Logistics Technology Support, LTS. The transaction was made effective, December 1, 2008...
ALK Partners With uShip.com
The transportation Web site uShip.com will use PC*Miler as an online tool for participating carriers under a new agreement with ALK Technologies...
ALK's FleetSuite Offers In-Cab Directions
Version 22 of ALK Technologies' FleetSuite uses PC*Miler 22 map data to provide for in-cab, truck-specific directions in real time...
Office Depot Selects Hubspan
Office Depot will implement Hubspan's on-demand integration platform to support customer service, according to the company...
I.D. Systems and Zetes Partner in Europe
I.D. Systems strengthswirelessly managing the productivity, safety and operational cost issues associated with material handling vehicles and operatorsfit...
New RFID Technology; Plus Airbus Signs On
On the hardware side of RFID, PowerID Ltd. announced general availability of its battery-assisted passive RFID label product using the EPCglobal Class...
Tracing the Track to Transportation Success
Managing movement of assets on a vast scale in a business that changes from minute to minute is daunting. Keeping up and adjusting to those changes based...
Sirit to Acquire RSI ID Technologies
RSI ID Technologies is a vertical manufacturer of antennas, inlays and tags for specialized, passive RFID applications. The combination with Sirit's readers...
Keeping Pace With Track and Trace
US businesses inventories have topped $1 trillion for the last several years. Keeping track of all of those goods and the assets associated with them...
Visibility Makes Service More than Bearable
One of the things we knew right off the bat was that we understand gift delivery but we recognized that our grower partners are the experts at shipping...
Avery Dennison Acquires Paxar for $1.3 Billion
The boards of directors of Avery Dennison Corp. (Pasadena, Calif.) and Paxar Corp. (White Plains, N.Y.) unanimously approved an agreement for Avery Dennison...
Infor Delivers Mobile Sales Solution for Field Reps
Infor (Atlanta) has released a new mobile order management solution that will enable field sales personnel in the distribution industry to process orders...
From Stable to Table
When bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was discovered in Canada, Atlantic Beef Products (ABP, www.abpi.ca) managers decided they needed to protect...
