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Performance Incentives in Inbound Logistics

The unloading dock is all important to boosting efficiency and productivity throughout one's warehouse and distribution facility, says Ryan Howard, vice president of business development for Inbound Technologies. Labor-management technology uses the best of team and individual incentive methodologies to increase productivity, maintain quality standards and keep workers safe.

Tire Maker Uses RFID Technology to Track Components, Reduce Wastage

The Continental Tire factory in Sarreguemines, France, has increased its production of tires from 33,000 tires per day to 38,000, thanks to a real-time location system it installed in September 2011 to track tire components. The RTLS has also helped the company reduce wastage of tire components, known as "semi products," by 20 percent.

End-to-End Solution Cuts Costs, Adds Global Supply Chain Efficiencies

Challenge: A leading manufacturer of cell phone accessories was in a crisis. Issues with an overseas partner completely shut down their supply chain. They needed a provider to quickly step in and get shipments moving.

4SIGHT Implements Operations and Engineering Improvements to Support Client's Expansion

Challenge: In 2011, due to increasing customer demand and product line expansion driven by organic growth and acquisition, our client determined that it was necessary to move its distribution operations to a larger facility.

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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Conflict Resolution: A Critical Part of Global Supply Chains

There are good reasons why a formal process for conflict resolution is necessary in the context of supply chains, says Stewart L. Levine, founder of ResolutionWorks. The very nature of supply chains, with their panoply of internal and external partners, gives rise to conflict. What's needed, he says, "is a conversational process whereby you can teach people how to move through conflict."

Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Hosts New IATA Cargo Training Center

Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Ltd. (Hactl) has become the site for the first authorized training center (ATC) to be established by the International Air Transport Association in Hong Kong.

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.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

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Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

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