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 Labor Management System (LMS) Resource Page | | Find information, expert insight, vendors solutions, a video overview, case studies and more on the Supply Chain Digest Letter on Labor Management Systems in Distribution | | Sourcing and Procurement News: Tactics to Combat Spiraling Commodity and Raw Material Inflation | | No Company Can Escape Overall Trends, but Mitigating the Impact Can Improve Profits, Offer Competitive Advantage
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SUPPLY
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| For the Week ending
September 26, 2008 |
Like a fighter jet on fire, the Wall Street market took a steep and spiraling nose dive as the government plan to bail out troubled financial companies appeared to be in jeopardy. The development left a burning hole in the nerves of most investors and there were few survivors in the broader market indices. Our Supply Chain and Logistics stock index emerged smoky and charred.
In the software group, Ariba fell 11.2%, followed by i2 (down 6.5% - believed by an analyst at JMP Securities to be due to financing worries related to the JDA buyout). Still, Logility managed to escape the flames and recover all of last week’s losses. In the hardware group, both Intermec and Zebra slipped (down 7.7% and 6.2%, respectively). In the transportation and logistics group, Yellow Roadway plummeted 19.9%, Ryder fell 10.6%, and FedEx was down 9.5% on the heels of announcing the scheduled layoff of 200 U.S. employees. |
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The rise of outsourcing has brought risks and challenges. Many companies who have made the move to overseas sourcing have discovered a significant negative impact on their overall inventory levels.
Join our 2 industry experts as they review models for the management of global supply chain sourcing, current practices, goals, benefits and trends. |
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| |  White Paper: Benchmarking the Perfect Order
How well are companies in the consumer goods to retail channel doing in terms of perfect order achievement? This study looks at results from shipments from over 4500 suppliers - and the results are surprising. |  Leading Edge Logistics White Paper
This report from Supply Chain Digest summarized the findings from a survey of nearly 100 shippers and 70 3PLs on the state of 3PL technology enablement, as well as technology adoption in key areas among shippers |  Warehouse Management: Integrating WMS with SAP
Many companies are considering adding best-of-breed Warehouse Management solutions to their SAP ERP environments, but are uncertain as to integration options and issues. This informative white paper from Softeon reviews WMS deployment options within an SAP environment, describes the technical requirements in a straight-forward, jargon-free fashion, and overviews the importance of SAP's certification program for integration external WMS solutions with the ERP and new NetWeaver platform. |  Top Ten Comprehensive Procurement Outsourcing Vendors
The Black Book on Procurement Outsourcing report by Scott Wilson and Doug Brown has been made available in its entirety through special arrangement with SCDigest. Includes rankings of leading Procurement Outsourcing vendors. |  Reaching the Tipping Point in Parcel Shipping
In this excellent white paper from Supply Chain Digest, part of our Thought Leadership series, we look look at: the important forces that are driving increases in the level of parcel shipping for many companies, how multi-carrier parcel shipping systems have improved their capabilities and scalability over the past three years;
the 10 indicators it may be the time for your company to assess the benefits of multi-carrier shipping system strategies and technology
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SUPPLY CHAIN QUOTE
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 Chrysler was able to make quick progress on electric cars by relying on outside suppliers for many of the key components. That is a big change from the auto industry's traditional approach in which car makers develop most of a car's components themselves. |
-Jeff Bennett and Neal E. Boudette in an article last week in the Wall Street Journal
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Strategic Supplier Management in the
Supply Chain Series
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Session 3 - Implementing Successful Vendor Scorecard Programs: How Do You Measure Up?
October 15, 2008
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Session 4 - Leveraging the Supplier Ecosystem: Is Your Supplier Base an Underutilized Asset?
October 28, 2008 |
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Selecting ERP Systems for Mid-Market Companies
October 8, 2008
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Blurring the Line
Between Manufacturing and Logistics
October 14, 2008
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The Agile Supply Chain: Why it Matters,
How to Get There
October 21, 2008
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Inventory Optimization -
A Perspective from
the Boardroom
October 22, 2008 |
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Transportation
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Right-Sizing
October 29, 2008 |
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