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RFID, Wireless, Bar Code & Voice: The Promise of Mobility in Order Fulfillment and Distribution

Analyst Insight: The performance benefits of mobile devices and voice technologies in order fulfillment are well-established, and their usage is a hallmark of Best-in-Class performance. RFID, however, is still maturing in this space. What it does provide, especially for manufacturing and transportation, is added traceability both inside and outside the warehouse.

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Service Parts Management: Delivering Value in a Topsy-Turvy Market

Analyst Insight: This software market, like most, took a hit in 2009, but we still like its long-term growth potential. We continue to see companies adopting service parts management software successfully, saving millions of dollars in inventory costs.

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RFID, Wireless Bar Code & Voice: Steady Growth, at Lower Cost, Seen for These Technologies

Analyst Insight: 2009 was a rocky year for some aspects of this market, but stellar for others. Retail continues to roll-out voice and other technologies to ensure customer service and efficiencies, but RFID has slowed, for now. Defense logistics still is on the move with requirements and deployment of both active and passive RFID. Expect more purchases of these technologies in 2010, with a broader application of these technologies in diverse markets.

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Inventory Planning & Optimization: Management Is Key to Unlocking Working Capital

Analyst Insight: Optimizing inventory safety-stock policies without considering capacity and material constraints is not enough. Inventory management should be viewed within the context of a supply and demand balancing process associated with S&OP. Rough-cut capacity planning within the S&OP process should be augmented with inventory analysis.

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Tesla Motors: A Tale of Beauty and Pain

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Warehouse Management: Which WMS Is Perfect for You?

Analyst Insight: If an organization fails to accurately manage its warehouse, it runs the risk of selling stock it doesn't have or retaining stock it should have sold. Both of these situations result in lost revenue and potentially unhappy customers.

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Pharmaceutical/Bio-Tech: Putting the Spotlight on the Process Industry Supply Chain

Analyst Insight: In Aberdeen's Supply Chain Executive's Agenda 2009 study, the following top market pressures were reported by the process industry respondents: economic and financial volatility, rising supply chain management costs, escalating customer service demands, and rising business complexity of managing an increasingly global business network. Process industry firms have a number of differences in the way they manage their manufacturing and supply chains and are now increasing their focus on supply chain performance.

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Sterling Commerce Extends B2B Integration to Mobile Devices

Motorola Introduces New Series of Rugged Bar Code Scanners

Inventory Planning & Optimization: Mid-Tier Collaboration Between Planning and Product Development

Analyst Insight: Maturation of inventory management in organizations often follows a somewhat linear path from the technical basics of planning to the organizational issues encountered in sales and operations planning (S&OP). Coordination between product development and planning may not be the last hurdle, but it has been a major stumbling block that many mid-sized firms are increasingly overcoming.

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China: Bringing Your 'A' Game to Your China Supply Chain

Analyst Insight: Leading companies doing business in China - both sourcing and selling to the local market - are revamping their supply chains to minimize costs and empower their growth agendas. China is leading the world economy out of its current recession, and executives are looking to supply chain improvements to fuel their own company's comeback.

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Inventory Planning & Optimization: Can Inventory Reductions Achieved in 2009 Be Sustained?

Analyst Insight: Although companies were able to reduce absolute inventory levels by 10 percent from Q3/2008 to Q3/2009, a closer look reveals that Days Inventory On-hand deteriorated by 7.5 percent, resulting in excess working capital requirements of $50bn for the largest 1,000 U.S.-headquartered public companies. If not regained, this lost efficiency will become a more significant cash drain than expected in 2010.

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