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Inventory Control "Choke Points" Handled with Motorola RFID
Challenge: Like many modern manufacturers, our client faced constant pressure to improve the efficiency and accuracy of its resource handling to better control manufacturing costs. The client was looking for a way to streamline the tracking of parts from inventory to the factory floor.
RFID Solution Reduces Material Transactions and Inventory Possession Days by 33 Percent
Challenge: Our client, a manufacturer and supplier of a wide range of fiber optic solutions, needed a reliable, flexible, and scalable solution to eliminate manual processes and move more material through the warehouse, while meeting the strictest of budgets.
Steel Supplier Upgrades Warehouse Processes to Improve Accuracy and Efficiency
Challenge: Our client, one of the largest steel suppliers and distributors in the Midwest, needed improvements in order accuracy and productivity, as well as real-time inventory. In addition, our client needed to track and document mill test certificates for more accurate proof of pull and ship.
Major Food Distributor Implements New WMS Using Bar Code Labels
Challenge: A major U.S. food manufacturer and distributor wanted to implement a new warehouse management system using bar code labels to track the movement of products within its warehouses and to customers. A difficult challenge for a 100,000 sq. ft. warehouse with 1,600 different products in inventory.
Warehouses Aren't Making Room for the Recovery
You could call inventory and warehouse space the twin evils of the supply chain. Both are big drags on the balance sheet. So it should come as no surprise that the two categories are lagging the recovery - or what's passing for one.
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Leveraging Today's ERP in the Supply Chain
Today's ERP systems often have much of the needed supply chain management software, they are interoperable, and with them collaboration and visibility problems are minimized, says Mike Tatara, product marketing manager, Epicor Software Corp. In addition, they are highly efficient information repositories.
Many U.S. Manufacturers, Especially Larger Ones, Consider Returning Production to U.S.
More than a third of U.S.-based manufacturing executives at companies with sales greater than $1bn are planning to bring back production to the United States from China or are considering it, according to a new survey by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
E-commerce to Be Large Part of Growing App Downloads for Tablets
Eighty percent of tablet app downloads will be for e-commerce, games, digital publishing and social networking by 2016.
Where Are You Going to Put All That 'Big Data'?
Disk storage is a lot like closet space-you can never have enough. Nowhere is this truer than in the world of big data.
The Three Laws of Big Data
Like death and taxes, volatility has now become a fact of life. The aftermath of the 2009 recession reinforced the importance of defensive strategies against volatility in order to survive, but winning in an increasingly uncertain world requires that we learn to thrive in volatility, harness it and use this strength as a competitive advantage.
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State of Logistics Outsourcing Report Available from Capgemini
The world of consumer electronics is a rapidly evolving marketplace, one where manufacturers have to deal with product price erosion and the challenges that come with selling into many layered vertical markets.
Making the Most of Your Company's Software Layer?
The past 15 years have created a very different business environment, which has empowered consumers, commoditized many products and services, and dramatically compressed margins. Not surprisingly, these changes have forced businesses to operate differently. But exactly what kinds of companies have successfully transitioned to the digital age?
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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID
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