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Get Ready! Wal-Mart Mandate Puts RFID, Smart Tags On Fast Track

Even if you are not among Wal-Mart's top 100 suppliers, the retail giant's push for RFID labels at the case and pallet level by January 2005 deserves your attention. The mandate will have repercussions throughout the supply chain.

European Grocery Supplier Shows How CPFR Really Works

Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment may have been born in the U.S.A, but it took a German grocery supplier doing business in Spain to demonstrate true collaboration among trading partners.

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Special Issue: Collaborative Commerce - Forecasting Tool Lowers Coke Bottler's Inventory

Enabling its field sales managers to collaborate on forecasts allowed Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated to slash inventories in half while absorbing 150 new products.

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Snapple Found Handling Logistics In-house Left A Sour Taste

With industry giants invading the product niche that it created, the beverage maker turned to logistics outsourcing as a means to achieve a higher level of customer service, cost control and data integrity. Its attention now is focused on innovation and flavors.

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Keeping Up With Growth - in Stores and Employees

A good relationship with partners is the best contingency plan

Hershey Kisses Its Supply-chain Inefficiency Good-bye

Rapid growth, acquisition of a company with different distribution characteristics and a troubled ERP implementation created supply-chain problems for Hershey Foods in the late 1990s. A new strategy that focused on fulfillment speed and agility helped turn things around.

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Increased European Sales for Staples? Yeah, We've Got That

The pioneer of the office-products superstore has big plans to boost sales and market share in Europe by increasing stores, catalog orders, contract stationery business, and internet retailing. But it must balance growth with the challenge of a multi-channel supply chain.

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Master Lock Finds The Right Combination For Supply-Chain Improvements

Costly automation and price cuts weren't working. A new approach centered on increased outsourcing, flexible manufacturing and distribution, and establishing operations in Mexico. Now, Master Lock is saving money and getting new products to market faster.

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P&G: The Global Giant Starts Small, Grows Fast

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Always a First Time For Just-in-Time

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Hub Group Taps into Guinness Supply Chain

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Europe is a Pain for Distribution of Consumer Health Products

Europe's widely differing regulations of the consumer health product industry pose significant obstacles to centralized distribution. For companies trying to build efficiencies into their supply chains, such as health care giant Novartis, it's a real Maalox moment.

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