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featured Stories
Manufacturing: Ford Using High Tech Avatar Worker to Improve Plant Safety, Ergonomics and Quality

Global Supply Chain and Logistics: Will Recruiting and Retaining Top Talent be the Next Concern for Western Companies Operating in China?

Distribution and Material Handling: Interest in Crossdocking is High, but Challenges are Many

Transportation: PepsiCo Brings Automated Wave Management Concept to Transportation Planning

Supply Chain Trends: Can Smarter Analytics and Optimization Finally Reduce the Out-of-Stock Challenge in the Consumer Goods to Retail Supply Chain?

Procurement and Sourcing: Graphically Representing Supply Risk Across Three Dimensions

RFID and Auto ID: Use of QR Code is Exploding, but the Fast and Easy Approach May Lead to Problems

Green Supply Chain: Toys R Us to Use Giant Solar Panel System to Power New Jersey Distribution Center

Research and Insight: Supply Chain Executive Brief: The Growing Imperative for 100% Trading Partner Connectivity


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Manufacturing
Featured Story: Ford Using High Tech Avatar Worker to Improve Plant Safety, Ergonomics and Quality

New Developments in Avatar Technology Soon to Bring Even More Realistic Simulation to Factory Floor; ''Santos'' coming Soon

Related Content: National Labor Relations Board On March, Seeking to Block Boeing Factory Move and Challenging State Bans on Card Check

NLRB Says Boeing Needs to Bring 787 Production Line back to Seattle, Seeks to Block Anti-Card Check Laws before a Card Check Law Exists

supply chain Trends and issues
Featured Story: Can Smarter Analytics and Optimization Finally Reduce the Out-of-Stock Challenge in the Consumer Goods to Retail Supply Chain?

Past Industry Initiatives only Achieved Portion of Expected Benefits; Why Managing Inventory Levels across the Network is So Hard

Related Content: In Which Direction is Your S&OP Process Biased?

One Question that is Infrequently asked and even less Frequently Answered is Whether the S&OP Process is Consistently Biased in one Direction or Another


A supply chain control tower can give you a consolidated view of planning and execution systems and help you sense and respond faster to changes in supply and demand. Download this white paper for tips on designing and implementing a supply chain control tower for maximum business benefit.


distribution and material
Featured Story: Interest in Crossdocking is High, but Challenges are Many

Potential and Current Users Cite Many IT System Limitations as Key Barriers; Spirits Distributor Uses Dismountable Containers for Route Deliveries to Eliminate Local DCs

Related Content: Annual WERC DC Metrics Study Finders Leaders Extending their Lead

Manrodt says Accelerating Peformance from the Best Word of Caution to Everyone Else; The 10 Most Frequently Used Metrics for 2011

Global supply chain and logistics
Featured Story: Will Recruiting and Retaining Top Talent be the Next Concern for Western Companies Operating in China?

New Study Says Chinese Nationals Now Prefer to Work for Chinese Companies, Not Western Multi-Nationals; Cisco Takes Actions to Make Employ Brand Attractive in China

Related Content: Will Rising Wages in China Significantly Change Outsourcing Economics?

Wages will be up 80% in Five Years, Li & Fung CEO Says; Vicious Cycle of Inflation and Wage Hikes; Western Consumption Patterns to Change?



RFID
Featured Story: Use of QR Code is Exploding, but the Fast and Easy Approach May Lead to Problems

Time for More Discipline in Code Creation; Can QR Code Linking to Web Pages Provide Benefits in Supply Chain Apps as Well?

Related Content: Understanding Europe's RFID Privacy and Data Protection Framework - And Whether Companies in US Should Consider such a Process

Framework Calls for Companies to Document Process for Categorizing Privacy/Security Risks - and How They Will be Mitigated

sourcing and procurement focus
Featured Story: Graphically Representing Supply Risk Across Three Dimensions

Reader Responds with Smart Way to Add Velocity Dimension to Familiar 2 X 2 Framework of Likelhood and Impact

Related Content: ISM 2011 Video Review and Comment

Risk management dashboard and ''register,'' from Goodrich, making reverse auction strategies successful, really leveraging suppliers in new product development, J. Shipman award winner - Gilmore covers all this and more from Orlando.



transportation
Featured Story: PepsiCo Brings Automated Wave Management Concept to Transportation Planning

Existing Process with Huge Volumes was not Sustainable, Ukidwe of PepsiCo says; New Optimization Cockpit Automates Order Selection and Optimization Process Across 10 Divisions

Related Content: Efforts to Unionize Drayage Drivers Continues, as California Assembly Prepared to Pass Law Effectively Eliminating Independent Drivers from State Ports

Teamsters Efforts Are ''Dogged,'' Curtis Whalen of ATA says; Law would be Challenged if Passed under Same Arguments as LA Clean Truck Program Legal Battles

transportation
Featured Story: Toys R Us to Use Giant Solar Panel System to Power New Jersey Distribution Center

When Complete, will be largest Rooftop Solar System in North America; 37,000 Solar Panels

Related Content: Consumer Interest in Green Products Still Tepid, Headed Down

Product Sales have Dropped from 2008; Is it Just because they Cost More, or Something Else?

transportation
Featured Story: Supply Chain Executive Brief: The Growing Imperative for 100% Trading Partner Connectivity

This Supply Chain Executive brief from Chief Supply Chain Officer Insights disucsses the increaded importance of building near universal trading partner connectivity, and how improved technology is making the task easier and less expensive than ever.

Related Content: CSCO Insight: Enterprise Software Applications - Measuring the Value

''Earned Quantifiable Benefits'' is a Key Concept, says Barry Wildernan, to Finding Value

   
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