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October 01, 2010

Supply Chain News: Full CSCMP 2010 Review and Comment

Dan Gilmore reviews key sessions and themes from CSCMP 2010, along with ideas for improvement for the annual conference.

TOPICS : Supply chain excellence | Supply Chain Trends

September 24, 2010

Supply Chain News: Trip Report - Materials Handling and Logistics Conference

SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore reports on key and interesting sessions from the Material Handling and Logistics conference this week in Park City, UT. Supply Chain strategy, Kaizen success, increasing storage capacity, and more.

TOPICS : Distribution | Lean | Supply chain strategy | Supply chain thought leadership | Supply Chain Trends

September 17, 2010

ASNs and the Supply Chain

Advance Ship Notices are at the heart of Suppy Chain Integration; but New Research says the Level of ASN Accuracy is a Major Issue

TOPICS : Supply chain excellence | Supply Chain Integration | Supply Chain studies

September 09, 2010

US Logistics Infrastructure - Critical Issue or Not?

Gilmore discusses how the current state of US logistics infrastructure is viewed from many different sources to include the American Society of Civil Engineers.

TOPICS : Logistics

August 27, 2010

What is a Smarter Supply Chain?

There is a lot of talk these days about Smarter supply chains. What does that really mean? Dan Gilmore offers his perspective.

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

August 19, 2010

Israel, Iran and Imminent Supply Chain Risk?

Gilmore discusses the impact of an attack by Israel on Iran's nuclear facilities on the supply chain

TOPICS : Supply chain risk

August 13, 2010

Thinking about WMS 2010

It is one of the most mature of Supply Chain applications, but Warehouse Management System providers continue to re-invent the category. SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore looks at what’s new in WMS.

TOPICS : Distribution | Logistics | Supply Chain Execution (SCE) | Warehouse Mananagement Systems

August 06, 2010

Supply Chain Beach

From the beach, SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore offers some overall supply chain observations on supply chain flexibility, the CEO study from IBM, the high tech industry supply problems and its link to the future of supply chain, the new WalMart RFID effort and more

TOPICS : Agile supply chain | Supply chain thought leadership | Supply Chain Trends

July 30, 2010

Supply Chain News: Understanding WalMart's Inbound Freight Strategy

Guest columnist David Schneider analyzes what is really behind WalMart's plan to take control over vendor's inbound freight.

TOPICS : Inbound logistics | Logistics costs | Logistics | Retail industry supply chain | Transportation | Wal-Mart

July 23, 2010

Defining and Measuring Supply Chain Flexibility

Discussion of micro- and macro-flexibility by experts in the supply chain field

TOPICS : Supply chain thought leadership