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Leading Network Provider Delivers Consistent Growth with Steelwedge S&OP

Challenge: Volatile economy creates changing customer demand.

Why Can't We Just Emulate Apple if We Want to Be Successful?

It's no mystery why companies emulate their most successful peers. Tried-and-true approaches often seem preferable to starting from scratch, whether for developing new products or running efficient supply chains. The quest for such methods went global during the 1980s and 1990s as European and U.S. companies sought to retool their operations by transplanting Japanese factory practices, such as kanban and just-in-time production. Management consultants - ourselves included - naturally facilitate the process by extolling successful companies as models from which others can learn proven practices that reduce risks.

STI's Innovative Solution Saves Customer $850K

Challenge: A major computer manufacturer moves fully-loaded server racks, data storage and accessories into data centers. Even cosmetic damage to cartons is reason to refuse delivery. Therefore, the customer was paying $1 million annually in extra cargo liability coverage. They required a logistics supplier that could provide extra attention to their high-value, delicate commodities.

Live Classroom Training Crucial to WMS Software Adoption Success

Challenge: You can have the greatest system in the world tuned to maximum performance and the implementation could be disastrous if end users haven't been a part of the project and feel like they've had a system thrown at them. For a large, high tech company, over 40 distinct business processes needed to be developed or revamped and coordinated with the WMS.

Manufacturer Reduces Supply Chain Costs of Relocating to Singapore

Challenge: Our customer relocated operations to Singapore. Increased real estate and labor costs made warehouse space for product staging unfeasible. In addition, strict copy exact customer rules meant many components were still sourced from the U.S.

Could Rising U.S. Exports and Reshoring Help Create Up to 5 Million Jobs by 2020?

Manufactured exports - a bright spot of the U.S. economy in recent years - are set to surge. Combined with jobs created as a result of reshoring, higher U.S. exports could add 2.5 million to 5 million jobs by the end of the decade, as manufacturers shift production from leading European countries and Japan to take advantage of substantially lower costs in the U.S., according to new research by The Boston Consulting Group.

Logility Releases New App for SKU-Level Forecasting

Logility Inc. has made available a new application that enables SKU-level planning for products where traditional forecasting techniques are ineffective.

Cognex Enhances Line of Barcode Readers With 2DMax+ Technology

Cognex Corp. has incorporated 2DMax+ software for barcode reading into its DataMan 100 and 200 fixed-mount readers.

China's 'Second Mice' Enter the Capitalist Maze

So we have a handful of Chinese companies that haven't grown up by the traditional method of attaching an umbilical cord to the government and receiving endless amounts of financial support and monopoly status in return. These "Second Mouse" ventures are going head to head, both in China and around the world, with entrenched, Western-style multinationals. The question is: can they really compete?

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RFID Measures Worker Productivity on Tomato, Cucumber Farm

Employees at tomato and cucumber producer Eurofresh Farms have increased their productivity by between 200 and 250 percent thanks to an RFID-based solution that helps the company track the exact amount of work performed by each staff member, and then compensate that individual accordingly.

China's 'Second Mice' Enter the Capitalist Maze

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Seamlessly Correcting a Labeling Error to Save Client Resources

Challenge: Port Jersey Logistics began providing value-added services to a long-term client, a major specialty food distributor. PJL now handles labeling, bar-coding, ink-jetting and repacking, decreasing product travel time/mileage and vendor costs. The client aimed wanted its customers to obtain their product shipments faster and at lower prices.

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