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January 26, 2009

Logistics News: Do Companies Often Limit Goals When Implementing On-Demand Transportation Management Systems?

No Inherent Reason for Implementations to be Dramatically Simpler, as Most of Work is Still the Same; Consultants Generally Run the Other Way

TOPICS : Transportation Management Systems | Transportation

January 20, 2009

Logistics News: Will Natural Gas Cars be the Answer to Ridding World of Oil Dependence?

Debate Continues in US; Is It for Trucking Only, or the Consumer Too? Meanwhile, Thais, Other Nations, Make Progress

TOPICS : Transportation | Trucking

January 20, 2009

Logistics News: Is There Such a Thing as a Hybrid Gravity Conveyor?

The Answer is Yes - and it is an Alternative that Provides Carton Control with Less Energy Usage

TOPICS : Distribution | Material handling automation

January 20, 2009

Supply Chain News: Just How Big is the Out-of-Stock Problem in Retail?

It is Worse than the Retail Industry Thinks, According to New Study from IHL Group; New Fodder for RFID? Beyond Just Consumer Packaged Goods

TOPICS : Out-of-stocks | Retail industry supply chain | RFID market size | RFID | Supply Chain Trends

January 20, 2009

Global Supply Chain News: China Finds Modern Labor Laws Come with a Price

New Laws Gave Many Workers More Rights than in US, but could be Accelerating the Pace of Factory Closures

TOPICS : China | Global supply chain

January 19, 2009

RFID News: Wal-Mart Finds Do-It-Yourself may be Easiest Path for RFID Enablement

Sam's Club Drops Compliance Fines for Lack of Pallet Tagging to Just 12 Cents; Did it Reach Its Own Tipping Point?

TOPICS : RFID | Wal-Mart

January 15, 2009

RFID News: How Much Progress was made in Retail RFID in 2008?

New AIM Research Brief Says Past Year saw Many Significant Developments

TOPICS : Retail industry supply chain | RFID market size | RFID

January 15, 2009

Supply Chain News: Will Digital Manufacturing Transform Production Processes and the Supply Chain?

The Technology is Still Emerging, but Further Along than Many People Realize; Invisalign Uses DDM to Transform the Dental Supplies Market

TOPICS : Manufacturing

January 15, 2009

Logistics News: Key Trends in Warehouse Management Systems

Better Suite Integration, SOA, Support for Manufacturing Logistics Among the Developments

TOPICS : Warehouse Mananagement Systems

January 14, 2009

Supply Chain News: How to Make Good Supply Chain Decisions

McKinsey Surveys Finds Ad Hoc Processes, Parochial Input, among Factors that Lead to Decisions that Do Not Pan Out

TOPICS : Supply Chain Trends