You're accessing our list of Supply Chain Management and Logistics feature articles and news stories, sorted in reverse date order, from our News and Views section

May 08, 2013

Logistics News: Keep Your Developing Project Alive & On Course With A Little Help From Industry Providers

Understanding When it's OK for a Buyer to take Advantage of a Sellers Knowledge & Expertise

TOPICS : Benchmarking | Benchmarking | Project management | Project management | Distribution

May 07, 2013

Supply Chain By Design: Four Steps for Thinking About An Optimization Problem

Optimization Can Help you Get Value from your Supply Chain Data - Here’s How to Think About an Optimization Project

TOPICS : Supply Chain Experts | Supply chain thought leadership

May 01, 2013

Logistics News: Solving DC Performance Issues Requires Systematic Analysis & Planning

Careful Analysis is Prudent When Trying to Correct Practices that are Inhibiting System Performance

TOPICS : Distribution

April 30, 2013

Supply Chain By Design: Don't Let the Term "Optimization" Become a Buzzword

Why You Should Care What Optimization Means, How it Fits in with Analytics, and Is it Real Time?

TOPICS : Supply Chain Experts | Supply chain thought leadership

April 25, 2013

Adaptive Supply Chains (Part 2 of 3): Inventory Management: How Incremental Improvements Drive Big Gains

By Feeding Social and Mobile Data into Planning Systems and Overlaying Analytics, Manufacturers and Retailers can Reduce Inventory Waste and Become More Precise in Targeting Customers

TOPICS : Inventory management | Inventory optimization

April 24, 2013

Keep It Moving: Goods to Person Automation - A Multishuttle Primer

Technology Really Opens the Doors for Extremely High Volume Distribution Environments

TOPICS : Distribution | Material handling automation


April 18, 2013

Supply Chain Comment: Retail Margin Risk: 5 Critical Supply Chain Steps to Ensure Merchandise Plan Execution

Systematically Identifying and Eliminating Supply Chain Performance Related Issues Can Help Retailers Mitigate Events that Put Margin at Risk

TOPICS : Retail industry supply chain

April 17, 2013

Logistics News: Re-evaluation & Training Are Keys To Achieving Peak DC Performance

Processing Peak Volumes Requires Smooth Running Systems and a Well Trained Staff

TOPICS : Distribution | Material handling automation

April 11, 2013

Supply Chain Comment: S&OP Is a Team Sport

Applying What We Know about Winning on the Football Field to the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Process Provides some Interesting Guidelines for Success

TOPICS : Sales and Operarions Planning (S&OP)