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October 19, 2010

Supply Chain News: Companies that Do Not Manage Commodity Price Swings Well Leave Lots of Dollars Off the Bottom Line

Cross-Functional Collaboration is Key, McKinsey Consultant Says; Reducing Margin Volatility 20-40%

TOPICS : Procurement/Supplier Management


October 19, 2010

Global Supply News: Key to Ocean Rates will be Ability of Carriers to Maintain Capacity Discipline, Drewry Shipping Says

Industry Developments Means Shipper-Carrier Relationship has ''Changed Forever,'' Dekker of Drewry Shipping Says; Is Cost Sharing Commoditizing the Carriers?

TOPICS : Global logistics | Logistics costs | Logistics | Ocean carriers

October 19, 2010

Supply Chain News: Conair Fights Back in Retail Chargeback War

New Proactive Monitoring System Lets Small Appliances Giant be Aware of 'Shipments at Risk' of Compliance Violations

TOPICS : Case studies | Consumer goods industry supply chain | Distribution | Logistics costs | Logistics

October 12, 2010

Supply Chain News: James Womack, Founder of the Lean Enterprise Institute, Partially Hangs Up his Cleats

LEI CEO Role now Goes to John Shook, First US Manager at Toyota in Japan

TOPICS : Lean | Manufacturing

October 12, 2010

RFID/AIDC News: The ''Square'' from Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Instantly Brings Credit Card Processing to Mobile Phone Application

Simple Device is Given Away with Fee per Transaction; Demand Overwhelming Supply

TOPICS : Automatic Data Collection

October 12, 2010

Supply Chain News: Latest Trends in Logistics Study from Manrodt, Holcomb IDs 5 Undeniable Supply Chain Truths

Annual Survey Finds Big Improvements in Inventory Turns - but Will They Hold? Strategy of being All Things to All People Surges

TOPICS : Supply Chain Trends