The PO Lifecycle and ASNs in the Consumer Goods to Retail Supply Chain

When Sortation Systems Go Wrong, Usually Due to Insufficient Upfront Planning, Holste Says, Though Outright Disasters Very Rare Today

Firm Cited for Too Much Overtime - but More Workers Want More Hours than Think They Log too Much Time on the Job

How Widespread is Practice of Pursuing the Shelf-Connected Supply Chain? What are the Barriers?

Update on Natural Gas Truck Progress; Apple Gets its Labor Practices Audit Report; Factory Utilization Up, but Still Below Average; plus the Supply Chain Week in Numbers

Stores Almost Always Overestimate their Current Levels of Inventory Accuracy, He Says; Getting to 70% Takes ''Extraordinary Effort'' without RFID

Just 10% of Retailers Say they Have a High Level of Integration Between Stores and Web; Transportation a Concern for 2012

Oriental Trading Company CEO Finds DC Work Hot, Hard - and that What He Thought Employees Valued Is Wrong

Amazon Makes Surprise Acquisition of Warehouse Automation Vendor; Asian Wages Rising in Many Countries besides China; NAFTA Trade Volumes Exploded in 2011

Hackett Group Survey Shows Modest Increase Expected for Outsoucing - but More Aggressive Plans for Offshoring