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Coping With Complexity in the Service Parts Supply Chain

A company can live or die by the effectiveness of its service parts supply chain. Yet the requirements for managing that function can be brutally complex. John Reichert, WMS product marketing manager with TECSYS, provides a blueprint for the proper management of service parts.

More Visions of the Future from the San Francisco Roundtable

Here are five more predictions for 2013 and beyond, from a panel of five well-informed (and well-fed) Silicon Valley business executives. (See my previous post for the first five.) Assembled in Santa Clara, Calif., by the San Francisco Roundtable of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, these individuals took part in the group's fourth annual effort to answer that age-old question: What does the future hold for supply-chain management?

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More Visions of the Future from the San Francisco Roundtable

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LexisNexis Launches Risk-Monitoring Tool for Supply Management

LexisNexis Legal and Professional has launched LexisNexis SmartWatch, a risk-monitoring tool for supply-management professionals.

Aldata Develops Shopper Relationship Management Tool for Marketers

Aldata, a vendor of applications for the retail and distribution industries, has created Aldata Shopper Relationship Management (SRM), part of its new Aldata Omni-Shopper Suite.

Omni-Channel, Multichannel, Merged Channel - A Look at the Dynamic World of Retail

Retail is in a dramatic transformative phase. Consumers' multichannel access and shopping make multi/merged channel fulfillment the focus for retail. No more relegating supply chain to the backwaters of retail management!

Aligning Transportation With a Single Platform

Mike Mulqueen, senior director of product management at Manhattan Associates, talks about the advantages of integrating all aspects of transportation management onto a single platform and how the resulting holistic approach drives value at many levels.

AirClic Releases Update of Cloud-Based TMS Application for 3PLs

AirClic, a provider of cloud-based software for mobile supply chain and logistics operations, has released version r12.4 of Transport Perform, its transportation-management system (TMS) application.

CargoSmart Offers New Visibility Tool for Ocean Shipments

CargoSmart Ltd., a vendor of shipping and logistics applications in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) mode, has created a new visibility tool for shippers and logistics service providers.

Demographics: Not Just for Marketers Anymore

Joey Carnes, CEO of MIQ Logistics, says that changing demographics, especially the aging of global populations, will have a profound impact on consumer-driven supply chains in the next five to 15 years and needs to be given greater weight in supply chain models.

A CPG Giant Aims for Sustainability in Its Global Supply Chain

A conversation with Pier Luigi Sigismondi, chief supply chain officer of Unilever

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IFS Issues Export-Control Module for Aerospace and Defense

IFS has created a new software module to aid in export compliance in the aerospace and defense market.

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