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March 06, 2008

Supply Chain Graphic of the Week- Key Dimensions of Procurement and Sourcing Effectiveness

Understanding Procurement and Sourcing Effectiveness Requires Analysis of a Broad Range of Factors

TOPICS : Managing effectively | Metrics/Performance measurement | Procurement/Supplier Management

March 06, 2008

This Week's Supply Chain Trivia - Percentage of Independent Truckers

What Percent of US Truck Drivers are Independents?

TOPICS : Trivia

March 05, 2008

Supply Chain by the Numbers: March 5, 2008

This Week: Independent Truckers On the Road to Repossession; Falling Greenback Bruises Import Market; Oil Prices Partly Determined by Futures Market; Suppliers Tie Up U.S. Shoe Manufacturers

TOPICS : Supply Chain By the Numbers

February 28, 2008

Supply Chain Graphic of the Week - Understanding Batch Order Picking

Batch Picking Strategies are the Key to Most Sortation System Deployments; Let the Sorter do the Work

TOPICS : Material handling automation

February 27, 2008

Supply Chain by the Numbers: February 27, 2008

This Week: China Zaps the Microwave Market; Amazon Scores Well with Customers; RFID-based Systems Identify Big Gains in 2008; Where is the Beef? - It Has Been Recalled

TOPICS : Supply Chain By the Numbers

February 25, 2008

Supply Chain News: Huawei Technologies Pulls Out of Deal to buy 3COM, as Chinese Government Calls Foul over Increasing Concerns over Investments

Chinese Official Says Supposed Security Concerns are Baloney - Well, Actually, He Used a Stronger Term; Chinese Direct Investment Becoming a Major Political Issue

TOPICS : China | Manufacturing

February 25, 2008

Supply Chain News: Siemens Announces Strategy to Penetrate World Markets with Lower Cost Products

Executive Says Opportunity is $150 Billion Annually, with High Growth; Products Will Often be Manufactured in Local Markets

TOPICS : China | Global supply chain | Manufacturing | Supply chain strategy

February 22, 2008

This Week's Supply Chain Trivia - Economic Order Quantity (ECO) Variables

What are the three primary variables used to compute the Economic Order Quantity (EOC)?

TOPICS : Trivia

February 22, 2008

Supply Chain by the Numbers: February 22, 2008

This Week: Oil Prices Break New Ground; "Steel" Yourself for Jump in Price of Iron Ore; Lots of Smiling at Wal-Mart Over 4th Quarter Revenue; When a Sortation System Makes Good Sense

TOPICS : Supply Chain By the Numbers

February 22, 2008

Supply Chain Graphic of the Week - Opportunities in The Long Tail

Throw the Pareto Principal Out - Increasing Focus on How to Optimize Slower Moving Inventories

TOPICS : Consumer goods industry supply chain | Inventory management | Inventory optimization