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Determining the Need for Barcoding or RFID
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How RFID Can Better Help Manage Your Assets
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Is "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) Managing You?
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Manufacturer enhances service while reducing fuel and distribution costs
Challenge: This integrated garage door systems manufacturer wrestled with excessive product damage and drivers who weren't invested in maintaining a high level of customer service. To improve their supply chain performance, this customer had to improve distribution and transportation efficiencies while minimizing product damage and enhancing the customer experience.
Direct-to-Store Delivery solution helps leading beverage company reduce distribution costs
Challenge: This leading tea manufacturer initially purchased delivery trucks to handle the direct-to-store distribution (DSD) of their product. Faced with an unreliable fleet and rising distribution costs, the manufacturer struggled to deliver to more than 330 locations and meet the stringent service requirements of major grocery chains.
RFID Market Expected to See Robust Growth at Least Through 2017
The traditional uses of RFID for the identification of animals, people and within the automotive sector are continuing to grow and are projected to increase by $2.8bn from 2012 to 2017. However, ABI Research's new RFID Market Tracker found that modernizing RFID applications will grow twice as fast with annual revenues derived from these jumping by $4.5bn in the same timeframe.
How Do You Decide Which RFID Strategy to Employ in Your Organization?
The advancement of technology, combined with demand from customers, has continued to fuel interest in radio frequency identification tagging systems. Yet for all the attention paid to RFID, data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in logistics shows a majority of organizations have not adopted an RFID tagging strategy.
How SCM Education Is Changing With the Times
John L. Kent, director of logistics and supply-chain management programs at Missouri State University, offers a look at how the educational curriculum in supply-chain management programs is changing - and what employers are looking for in new graduates.
How Many Chinese Companies Can Leap from China to Playing on the Global Stage?
The era of easy growth for Chinese companies is coming to a close. Sales growth is slowing, while margins and profitability are under pressure. To reach the next level, Chinese companies need first to overcome a more challenging economy at home, where the days of relying on low labor costs, price competition, and a giant domestic market to fuel growth are over.
Lenovo May Be Top Dog in China, But Its Image Is Old Hat
How does a Chinese company make itself cool to locals? For Lenovo, the answer is to appear less Chinese.
Harley-Davidson Taps Penske to Manage Its Logistics Needs in Brazil
Iconic motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson has selected Penske Logistics to manage its logistics processes in Brazil.
Arkansas Jewelry Uses RFID to Track Precious Inventory
Sissy's Log Cabin, a jewelry retailer in Arkansas, has been employing an RFID-based solution for the past five years at its stores in Pine Bluff and Little Rock, in order to more accurately and quickly inventory the trays of watches, gems and fine jewelry that it displays and sells. Now, having opened a new store this year in Jonesboro, the company is preparing to expand the system, within the next 12 months, to include that location as well.
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