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The Kinaxis Control Tower: The Better to See Risks, Opportunities

Discrete manufacturing companies operating with highly complex supply chains in today's volatile business world need collaborative planning and the ability to quickly respond to variances in those plans. They often want to model 'what-if' scenarios to better prepare them for those inevitable hiccups - or new business. Kinaxis designed its RapidResponse solution to help companies with demand and supply balancing, optimized forecasting, and improved supply chain performance. Recently it debuted an enhanced version called RapidResponse Control Tower.

Preparing to Run the Supply Chain 2020 Race

In 2012, three decades of supply chain management have passed. It is time to learn from history and look forward. I feel that organizations need to train for supply chain 2020.

Performance Incentives in Inbound Logistics

The unloading dock is all important to boosting efficiency and productivity throughout one's warehouse and distribution facility, says Ryan Howard, vice president of business development for Inbound Technologies. Labor-management technology uses the best of team and individual incentive methodologies to increase productivity, maintain quality standards and keep workers safe.

Strategies for Responding to Supply Chain Challenges

Volatility, globalization, higher customer expectations and new-product introductions are the "enemy" of the supply chain, and inventory and capacity are costly ways of combating them, says Puneet Saxena, vice president of industry strategies at JDA Software.

Going Green With Sales Carbon Operations Planning

"Sales Carbon Operations Planning" (SCOP) offers a new take on supply-chain management, bringing together traditional sales and operations planning (S&OP) techniques and the need for companies to track and reduce their carbon emissions. "It's my way of making it easy to transfer into sustainability with your existing processes," says Silvia Leahu-Aluas, owner of Sustainable Manufacturing Consulting. The new term covers everything from basic carbon dioxide management to a full understanding of the economic and environmental impact of greenhouse gas emissions.

Warehouses Aren't Making Room for the Recovery

You could call inventory and warehouse space the twin evils of the supply chain. Both are big drags on the balance sheet. So it should come as no surprise that the two categories are lagging the recovery - or what's passing for one.

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Leveraging Today's ERP in the Supply Chain

Today's ERP systems often have much of the needed supply chain management software, they are interoperable, and with them collaboration and visibility problems are minimized, says Mike Tatara, product marketing manager, Epicor Software Corp. In addition, they are highly efficient information repositories.

Conflict Resolution: A Critical Part of Global Supply Chains

There are good reasons why a formal process for conflict resolution is necessary in the context of supply chains, says Stewart L. Levine, founder of ResolutionWorks. The very nature of supply chains, with their panoply of internal and external partners, gives rise to conflict. What's needed, he says, "is a conversational process whereby you can teach people how to move through conflict."

Many U.S. Manufacturers, Especially Larger Ones, Consider Returning Production to U.S.

More than a third of U.S.-based manufacturing executives at companies with sales greater than $1bn are planning to bring back production to the United States from China or are considering it, according to a new survey by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

E-commerce to Be Large Part of Growing App Downloads for Tablets

Eighty percent of tablet app downloads will be for e-commerce, games, digital publishing and social networking by 2016.

Where Are You Going to Put All That 'Big Data'?

Disk storage is a lot like closet space-you can never have enough. Nowhere is this truer than in the world of big data.

Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Hosts New IATA Cargo Training Center

Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Ltd. (Hactl) has become the site for the first authorized training center (ATC) to be established by the International Air Transport Association in Hong Kong.

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