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Survey Details How Manufacturers Seek to Improve Their Supply Chains
The key supply chain challenge today is the juxtaposition of complex and extended supply networks with increasingly fast and volatile demand networks - and the increasingly ineffective role for inventory as a way to buffer cadence mismatches.
Supply Chain Improvement Initiatives at Briggs Healthcare
Briggs Healthcare develops and markets products that are designed to improve clinical outcomes and reduce operating costs for more than 50,000 customers in the senior care, home care, acute care, physician and retail markets. "Having the right product at the right place and time and at the lowest cost is very important to us," says Brad Mueller, vice president of supply chain solutions.
Coping With Demand Variability in the Electronics Supply Chain
The electronic industry has always been characterized by high variability in supply and demand. With recent natural disasters such as the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and flooding in the parts of the U.S., the problem has only become more acute. Tackling it requires state-of-the-art systems, strong management commitment, good customer service, well-run business processes, integration among functions and effective inventory-control procedures, says Dave Lentz, director of innovation and solutions marketing with Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas.
CaroTrans Opens New Full-Service Office in Seattle
CaroTrans, a non-vessel operating common carrier and ocean-freight consolidator, has opened a new office in Seattle, Wash.
The Critical Impact of Trade Promotions on Your Supply Chain
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Surging Domestic Energy Sector Puts New Demands on Transportation
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How an Evolving China Is Affecting Global Supply Chains
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California Ports, Like the Rest of the World, Hit by Cooling Chinese Economy
After months of careful tinkering aimed at slowing China's supercharged economy, Chinese officials may have gotten more than they bargained for: The nation's economic engine is decelerating with alarming speed.
Costco Finally Realizes It Needs to Get in the E-Commerce Game
It's a curiosity of how the internet works that a shopper using a search engine to find a flat-screen TV probably will not turn up Costco Wholesale, a major television vendor and the country's largest retailer after Walmart.
Execs Know Importance of Social Media, But Not How to Tap Its Power and Potential
Executives certainly know what social media is. After all, if Facebook users constituted a country, it would be the world's third-largest, behind China and India. Executives can even claim to know what makes social media so potent: its ability to amplify word-of-mouth effects. Yet the vast majority of executives have no idea how to harness social media's power.
Lessons in Change Management
In addition to technical and functional skills, supply chain managers need to hone their "soft" skills in areas like project management and change management, says Bill Seliger of R.R. Donnelly Logistics Services.
Arena Solutions Teams With Octopart to Aid in Supply Visibility
Arena Solutions, a vendor of cloud-based product lifecycle-management (PLM) software for managing bills of materials (BOMs), has forged a partnership with Octopart, a search engine for electronic parts.
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