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December 19, 2008

This Week's Supply Chain Trivia - Something UPS Did Not Do This Fall?

What did UPS Not Do this Fall for the First Time Since 1999?

TOPICS : Trivia

December 11, 2008

Supply Chain Graphic of the Week - Two Decades of Consumer Goods to Retail Supply Chain Improvement Programs

From Quick Response to RFID, Programs Keep Attacking the Same Basic Issues; Successes and Critics

TOPICS : Consumer goods industry supply chain | Out-of-stocks | Retail industry supply chain

December 11, 2008

This Week's Supply Chain Trivia - Two Large Bar Code/Data Collection Related Trade Shows in the 90s?

In the Early/Mid-1990s, What were the Two Large Bar Code/Data Collection-Related Trade Shows that Enjoyed Several Years of Major Success before Quickly Fading, Merging, and then Quickly Disappearing Altogether by the Late 1990s?

TOPICS : Trivia

December 10, 2008

This Week's Supply Chain by the Numbers - Supply Chain Flexibility, Pirates, Foreign Oil Dependence, Apparel Suppliers

The Supply Chain and Logistics Numbers Worth Knowing This Week: Supply Chain Flexibility - Enough is as Good as a Feast; Where There is a Sea, There are Pirates - 24 hours a day; Foreign Oil Dependence Misconception?; Vanishing Global Apparel Suppliers

TOPICS : Supply Chain By the Numbers

December 04, 2008

This Week's Supply Chain Trivia - Supply Chain Movement Championed by Milliken & Co?

Textile Giant Milliken & Co, and its then CEO Roger Milliken, Championed what Supply Chain Movement in the Late 1980s/Early 1990s?

TOPICS : Trivia

December 04, 2008

Supply Chain Graphic of the Week - RFID and the Internet of Things

Classifying Objects and Managing Hierarchies is Tricky, It Turns Out

TOPICS : RFID

December 04, 2008

This Week's Supply Chain by the Numbers - Oil Prices, YRC Worldwide, Tesco, Global Expansion and Risk

The Supply Chain and Logistics Numbers Worth Knowing This Week: Oil Price Haggling - Do I Hear $75?; Teamsters Lose Green as they Team Up to Save Yellow; Tesco Defers - Why Pay Now That Which Can be Paid Later?; Global Expansion - Growing Like a Weed

TOPICS : Supply Chain By the Numbers

November 20, 2008

This Week's Supply Chain Trivia - Link Between Exxon and Voice Technology?

What is the Link between Oil Giant Exxon and Voice Technology?

TOPICS : Trivia

November 20, 2008

Supply Chain Graphic of the Week - SCM Priorities 2008

Not Surprisingly, Reducing Supply Chain Costs Topped the Gartner Survey Results; How will those SCM Priorities Change for 2009?

TOPICS : Supply chain strategy | Supply Chain studies

November 20, 2008

This Week's Supply Chain by the Numbers - Wal-Mart, GM, U.S. Manufacturing and Energy Efficiency

This Week: US Stuck in the Middle of RCI; Product Defect 2012 Countdown to Zero; General Motors - "A Fifth" Wheel in US New Car Market Share; Energy Efficiency Improvement Aims at Too "Conservative" Target?

TOPICS : Supply Chain By the Numbers