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July 06, 2015

Supply Chain News: Walmart Greatly Extending Payment Terms, Asking Some Vendors to Pay DC Handling Fee

Walmart Looks to Vendors to Help Shore Up Weak Bottom Line; Could Other Retailers Jump on the Handling Charge Concept?

TOPICS : Consumer goods industry supply chain | Retail industry supply chain | Wal-Mart

July 01, 2015

Supply Chain News: Amazon Said to be Considering Building Uber-Like Service to Deliver Packages

Amazon ''On My Way'' Concept would Use Regular People to Deliver the Goods Using Mobile App; Can Anyone Match UPS-FedEx Low Costs Per Package?

TOPICS : Amazon.com | e-fulfillment | ecommerce | Parcel shipping/parcel systems

June 30, 2015

Supply Chain News: Potential Breakthrough in 3D Printing Technology Could Enable Low Cost Parts at Scale

HP Promises Similar Gains with Its New Technology Last Fall; Is Tipping Point for 3D Printing Technology Coming?

TOPICS : Manufacturing

June 29, 2015

Supply Chain News: John Hill Unplugged Full Transcript Part 2

From the Rise of the MHI Organization to Key Mentors to a Vision for a Better WMS, Dan Gilmore Hill Discuss Supply Chain Trends and History

TOPICS : Distribution | Supply chain thought leadership

June 29, 2015

Supply Chain News: LLamasoft's SummerCon 2015 Video Review and Comment

LLamasoft has Revolutionized the Supply Chain Network Optimization Market in a Short Period of Time; Use Cases Highly Varied Across High Profile Customer Base; Trend Towards Doing Collaborative Design with Trading Partners; Caterpillar's Engineered Value Chain Initiative

TOPICS : Network design/optimization | Supply Chain Planning software | Supply chain software

June 24, 2015

Global Supply Chain News: Major Changes in Which Countries have the Largest Economies, Coming, New Assessment Says

China to Overtake US in 2026, India, Indonesia to Rise Sharply in ''New World Order''

TOPICS : Global supply chain

June 23, 2015

Supply Chain News: Will China be Ground Zero for Social Tension over Growing Use of Factory Robots?

Chinese Manufacturers Rush to Automate, with One Factory Replacing 90% of 1800 Workers with Robots

TOPICS : China | Manufacturing

June 23, 2015

Supply Chain Newsmakers Video: Bob Parker of IDC on Digital Transformation

Just What is a Digital Supply Chain Transformation? Gilmore and Parker Discuss

TOPICS : Supply chain thought leadership | Supply Chain Trends

June 23, 2015

Supply Chain News: US Drafts New Mileage and CO2 Requirements for Trucks, as Industry is Generally Supportive

Proposed Rules would Require 24% Improvement in Miles Per Gallon; Feasibility Not Clear, and Truck Costs will Rise

TOPICS : Logistics costs | Logistics | Transportation | Trucking

June 22, 2015

Supply Chain News: John Hill Unplugged Full Transcript Part 1

From Too Much Pain in WMS Deployments to Walmart's Failed RFID Mandate to Enterprise Supply Chain Management, Hill and Dan Gilmore Discuss Supply Chain

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