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February 19, 2009

Sorting it Out - Logistics Perspective: The Distribution and Materials Handling World Looks Different Depending on Where You Sit

After 30 Years With Various Vendors, I see Lots of Opportunities to Help Companies Improve Distribution Systems and Results

TOPICS : Distribution

February 18, 2009

Supply Chain Perspective: The Retail Supply Chain Network of the Future

Multi-Channel World Means Retail Supply Chains Must Rapidly Evolve to Optimize Inventories and Support Complex Logistics Flows

TOPICS : Network design/optimization | Retail industry supply chain

February 18, 2009

Supply Chain Comment: As RFID goes Mainstream, Remembering When Bar Coding was Once Special Too

Spending Months Evaluating Bar Code Printers RFID will soon Lose the Magic too, even as Volumes Increase

TOPICS : Automatic Data Collection | Data collection/AIDC | RFID

February 18, 2009

Supply Chain Perspective: Out of Stocks - You Can't Handle the Truth!

Out of Stocks - and Suppliers - Short Circuited Circuit City

TOPICS : Inventory management | Out-of-stocks | Retail industry supply chain

February 13, 2009

Supply Chain Comment: How well is Supply Chain Expertise Shared across the Globe within Large Companies?

Reader Questions Have Us Wondering; Is it Culture, or Organizational Structure that is the Barrier to Effectively Communicating and Sharing?

TOPICS : Global supply chain | Managing effectively

February 12, 2009

Supply Chain News: Achieving a Holistic Approach to Lean Manufacturing

Is it the Tools and Processes or People that Make Lean Work?

TOPICS : Lean | Manufacturing

February 12, 2009

Supply Chain News: Next Generation Enterprise Resource Planning Leads Truly Lean Organizations

Connectivity Across the Enterprise and Extended Value Chain is Critical Foundation for Lean

TOPICS : ERP | Lean | Manufacturing

February 10, 2009

Supply Chain Comment: The Incomprehensible Chart

Looking Good is One Thing, Communicating Information is Something Else

TOPICS : Retail industry supply chain

February 05, 2009

Logistics News: Successful Warehouse Management System (WMS) Integrations Require Left and Right Brained Thinking

Creativity and Discipline are Needed, and that is Rarely Found in One Person; True Cost of Poor Integrations can Last for Years

TOPICS : Benchmarking | Benchmarking | Project management | Project management | Material handling automation | Warehouse Mananagement Systems

February 04, 2009

Supply Chain Comment: More Evidence that the Robots Really Are Coming

Researchers Working on Robots called Snakebots to Attend Wounded Soldiers on the Battlefield

TOPICS : Manufacturing | Supply Chain Trends