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Time for an End-to-End Transformation in Food & Beverage Industry?
Analyst Insight: Food and beverage companies lag consumer packaged goods companies in corporate performance. With rising raw materials costs and volatility, coupled with increased compliance for food safety, they are facing greater change and increased risk. As they move into 2014, their supply chains are not as mature and their challenges are greater. - Lora Cecere, CEO and Founder, Supply Chain Insights
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Amazon, Other Foreign Online Retailers Have 'No Chance' to Succeed in Russia
Russia has become the it girl of e-commerce. Even amid a slowing economy, the country's online shopping increased 26 percent last year, to 510 billion rubles (about $14bn), according to Moscow's Data Insight, and could double by 2015. That has made the country an intriguing target for foreign players such as Amazon, eBay, Asos and China's Alibaba Group, while boosting the fortunes of such local companies as search engine Yandex and Amazon-like Ozon. Can foreign e-tailers make it there?
March Networks: The World of High-Tech Security
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Transforming Sourcing And Supplier Management. It's In Your Grasp.
Challenge: In a highly competitive and dynamic environment, a leading manufacturer of home appliances set out to transform its global sourcing functions with the goals of sustaining quality, maintaining production, and most important of all, preserving profit margins.
We Have Liftoff! Low Cost Country Sourcing Still Viable in 2014C
Challenge: A global $4B Aerospace & Defense manufacturer was challenged by its executive leadership to reduce their product costs to protect profit margins and create greater flexibility in pricing. A cost reduction project was launched, targeting their machined parts, one of their largest direct materials costs.
Hit the Gas! How to Double Your Strategic Sourcing Output
Challenge: A $7B Tier 1 automotive manufacturer determined that its direct materials sourcing processes were inefficient to the point that they were losing potential revenue. Instead of performing strategic sourcing activities for new product introductions, the sourcing team was spending most of its time extracting information from other systems (PLM, ERP), manipulating spreadsheets, and analyzing vast amounts of quote information from their suppliers.
Source Smarter: Cross-Company Consolidation Generates Savings While Reducing Risk.
Challenge: An $8B Aerospace & Defense manufacturer identified that it was sourcing the same or similar specialized fasteners from many suppliers across every division, reducing its ability to attain volume-based discounts and increasing supplier risk and management burden.
MD Logistics Offers Clients More Efficient and Effective Transportation Options
Challenge: MD Logistics existing legacy Transportation Management System was used to manually optimize freight solutions for customers that elected for the value-added service. However, it lacked full integration to the Warehouse Management System and the ability to rate shop and optimize freight spend and routing automatically.
Motorola Solutions Unveils Pocket-Sized Touch Computer
Motorola Solutions has introduced the TC55, a pocket-sized touch computer.
The Nasty Questions to Answer in Your Next Location Plan
Analyst Insight: Facility location planning is a six-dimensional balancing act encompassing long-term facility commitments with need for agility, predictable demand patterns with seasonal and spiky demand surprises, material handling investments with facility flexibility, return on investment with immediate operations effectiveness, cutting-edge technology with common sense, and operational efficiency and cost reduction with technology investment. Consequently, the best FLP results are those that design in the most needed capabilities, leaving space to accommodate the flexibility that drives location success. - Robert Sabath, Principal Essentialist SCM, TRISSENTIAL
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Freight Costs Finish 2013 on a Rising Note in Canada
Results published by the Canadian General Freight Index (CGFI) indicate that the total cost of ground transportation for Canadian shippers increased by 1.6 percent in December when compared with November results.
Love It or Hate It, Trade Is Driving Economic Recovery
Buyers and sellers appear generally optimistic about the prospects for trade and the economy this year. Let's hope they're not whistling in the dark.
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