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Essential Keys to Meeting Customer Demand

Loren Troyer, director of order management strategy with John Deere, lays out what it takes to meet customer demand. He also discusses the benefits of "flexibility planning."

Today's Chief Procurement Officer Is a New Breed of Executive

The notion of a "chief procurement officer" isn't new. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has had one since 1998, and the title can be found in any number of other government agencies and branches of the military. Private companies have embraced it as well, although the position hasn't enjoyed a solid footing in most C-suites for more than a decade or so. Maybe it was the success of companies like Apple, with its mastery of supply management, that convinced top executives of the need to elevate procurement to the highest levels of the organization.

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Supply Chain Visibility - The Beginning Rather Than the End?

Do you have powerful IT systems monitoring every movement in your supply chain? Collecting thousands of pieces of data from origin to destination? Building up a comprehensive data bank over months and years of business intelligence? So what do you do with that data?

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Labelmaster's Hazmat Placard, Label Finder Apps Now Free on iTunes

Labelmaster, a manufacturer and distributor of regulatory-compliance products for shippers and handlers of hazardous materials, has released two new apps for the iPad and iPhone.

Itelligence Buys SAP-Based Business Operations of Software AG in North America

Itelligence, a provider of SAP-based services for small and medium-sized businesses, has purchased the SAP consulting, license and maintenance operations of Software AG in the U.S. and Canada.

Transforming Operations Planning and Inventory Control at TriQuint Semiconductor

Laura Dionne, director of worldwide operations, and J.P. Swanson, systems architect, at TriQuint Semiconductor, describe how the installation of RapidResponse from Kinaxis is helping the company transform operations planning and improve inventory control.

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Epicor Debuts New Version of CRM for Retail Customer Engagement

Epicor Software Corp. has introduced version 7.0 of Epicor Retail CRM (Customer Relationship Management).

Aras Issues Update of PLM App With Microsoft Office Connector

Aras, a vendor of product lifecycle management (PLM) software, has released the Microsoft Office Connector for Aras Innovator.

Blue Ridge Debuts Mobile App for Retail Replenishment

Blue Ridge Inventory Group LLC has developed a mobile application to aid in planning and forecasting for retail store replenishment.

Laser Structuring Method Reportedly Embeds RFID Tag Antennas in Goods

Some RFID label manufacturers, as well as vendors of goods tracked via radio frequency identification, are taking advantage of a new technology developed by LPKF Laser + Electronics AG that enables the laser-printing of an antenna and circuit board for RFID transmission.

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Mobilizing Transportation Managers to Find the Right Answers Whenever, Wherever

Transportation managers are expected to respond to inquiries regardless of where they are or what they are doing when the question is asked. In order to respond to this flow of questions, managers must be able to access detailed shipment information that traditionally have not been available through mobile technology. This, in turn, requires systems developers to design and implement mobile information platforms that can be easily accessed from the road.

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Agilent's Vertically Integrated Supply Chain

Sun Lieu, head of supply chain engineering at the Electronics Measurement Business Group of Agilent Technologies, talks about the supply chain challenges of a high-mix, low-volume business and describes Agilent's two-level supplier collaboration model.

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