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CTM: Collaborating To Weed Out Transportation Inefficiency

With a re-energized effort under way to formalize Collaborative Transportation Management, lots of people are looking at ways to make carriers part of the collaborative process.

Naturally Fresh Dresses Its Supply Chain With New Capabilities

Rapid growth, Y2K issues and the need to better control and trace inventory all led salad dressing manufacturer Naturally Fresh to implement an enterprise system that included robust supply-chain capabilities.

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New Developments In Visibility Go Beyond Just Supply-chain Event Management

The first generation of SCEM vendors did not offer enough value to earn a permanent place in the marketplace, but a new wave of vendors with expanded capabilities promises to do a lot better.

Snapple Found Handling Logistics In-house Left A Sour Taste

With industry giants invading the product niche that it created, the beverage maker turned to logistics outsourcing as a means to achieve a higher level of customer service, cost control and data integrity. Its attention now is focused on innovation and flavors.

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Clarity Brought to Window Maker's Supply Chain

Unreliable advance planning in the building trades, multiple manufacturing sites and the fragile nature of its products were just some of the logistics challenges faced by Pella Corp. It needed a total set of logistics solutions throughout its widespread enterprise.

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Hitachi Data Moves to the Heartland for Faster Distribution

For 20 years, the high-end data storage system and server assembler had used DCs on each coast. But a self-imposed $1m penalty for unavailability of parts required a faster logistics network. Indianapolis was the answer.

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GE: A Company-Wide Push for Excellence

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B2B Commerce Flocks to Electronic Trading Exchanges

Electronic trading exchanges, providing real-time access to critical data via the internet, may be the key to achieving true supply-chain integration.

Canadian Tire Keeps Stores Rolling With Replenishment Program

Canadian Tire is perhaps Canada's most widely recognized and well established retailer, but in the early 1990s the company realized its aging stores and out-of-date replenishment system were costing it business. A major renovation of stores and re-engineering of the supply chain yielded impressive results.

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Audiovox Uses Public Warehouses, FTZs to Quiet Supply-chain Static

Consolidation of North American distribution points, a major shift from company-owned and -operated facilities to public warehousing, and economies from a little-known program with U.S. Customs helped slash inventory and associated costs for the Audiovox Corp., a consumer electronics company in Hauppauge, N.Y.

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