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January 06, 2005

The Right Systems Continue to Mean More Productivity with Fewer People!

Ron Hounsell, Director of Logistics Services, Cadre Technologies, Inc., concludes that today's answer to growing customer demand is for warehouse facilities to become service-centric.

TOPICS : Distribution | Logistics | Supply Chain Execution (SCE)

December 09, 2004

Can an RFID System Play Well with the Rest of Your Network?

SCDigest Contributing Editor Mark Fralick shares insight into the concerns in the mind of many ITdepartments. First, about the flood of data that might take place when they plug an RFID solution into their network, and second, what to do with the potentially huge amount of enterprise-level EPC data.

TOPICS : Electronic Product Code/EPC | RFID software | RFID

November 18, 2004

The Five Keys to High Performance Global Commerce Management

Ned Blinick VP of Blinco Systems outlines the five keys to high performance global commerce and supply chain management.

TOPICS : Global logistics | Global sourcing | Global supply chain | Logistics | Supply chain excellence | Supply chain thought leadership

November 05, 2004

How to Choose a Material Handling Control System

Paul A Faber of Tompkins Associates, considers how to make better use of the control system to support supply chain visibility and manage the flow of product through the facility.

TOPICS : Distribution | Material handling automation | Supply chain visibility | Warehouse design

October 21, 2004

Don't Believe Everything You Hear: Seven Best Practices for SCE Systems Implementations

David Meyers of Tompkins Associates, shares with SCDigest readers the seven best practices for SCE systems implementations.

TOPICS : Benchmarking | Benchmarking | Project management | Project management | Supply Chain Execution (SCE) | Supply chain software | Supply chain value | Warehouse Mananagement Systems

October 07, 2004

What Year Is It In Your Company?

James A Tompkins, says that world class status is always one step away and success begins with shedding a dated business mindset. In this piece, Dr. Tompkins asks, "What Year Is It In Your Company?"

TOPICS : Supply chain excellence | Supply chain strategy | Supply chain thought leadership

September 09, 2004

Closing the Gaps in Supply Chain Management Understanding

Gene Tyndall says that there is increasing interest, as well as concern, that the gaps in understanding and commitment to Supply Chain Management (SCM) continue to exist, and are expanding, especially between the operating practitioners and their executive leaders.

TOPICS : Supply Chain Basics | Supply chain excellence | Supply Chain Integration | Supply chain strategy | Supply chain thought leadership | Supply chain visibility

August 19, 2004

Global Visibility - Critical Requirement for Global Supply Chain Control

After all the hype, investment in and discussion about ERP, SCM, CRM, SRM, Logistics ASPs, 3PLs, integrating middleware applications, the Web, etc. - why does the problem of on-time delivery still exists? Some answers.

TOPICS : Customer satisfaction | ERP | Global sourcing | Global supply chain | Logistics costs | Procurement/Supplier Management | Supply chain costs | Supply chain software | Supply chain strategy | Supply chain thought leadership | Supply chain visibility