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Not Waiting for IT Department's Lead, Many Senior Execs Make IT Investments on Their Own
Senior management executives are increasingly budgeting for information-technology purchases particular to their own functional areas or departments, beyond what's included in corporate and IT-department budgets.
Auto Components Supplier Goes Lean with RFID
Challenge: A major manufacturing facility sought to automate the receiving of parts from 160 suppliers daily. This facility needed a new solution to decrease bar code scanning time, to reduce inventory inaccuracies caused by late shipping notices and human error, and to enable the company to track and better manage its 80,000 shipping containers.
Traceability Solution for Farm Cooperative
Challenge: To remain competitive, our client, a farmer-owned cooperative, sought to bring compliance methods to its members. For traceability, farms had been taping paper labels on palettes, and in some cases, handwriting lot numbers in spiral notebooks. Our client needed modern traceability measures that were easy for farmers to learn and use without slowing them down.
Beer Distributor Increases Field Efficiency and Reduces Costs
Challenge: A major beer distributor was looking to increase field efficiency and accelerate order input. Its legacy route accounting package and old green screen hardware limited its drivers' ability to provide customer service at the point of delivery and hindered communication between sales representatives and the main office.
Panjiva Offers Chinese Trade Data on Searchable Platform
Panjiva, creator of a business-to-business platform for global trade, is now offering access to Chinese trade data.
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Standard Register Unveils New Marketing Supply Chain Tool
Standard Register, a vendor of document-management systems and services for enhancing business reputation, has launched a new service to help manage the marketing supply chain.
Managing People and Systems Is Key to Proper Inventory Management
Managing inventory requires skillfully balancing a variety of complicated and competing objectives. Supply management professionals responsible for inventory have to control inventory holding costs, such as warehousing and financial opportunity costs, while pursuing cost savings that may be obtained with larger purchases. They also simultaneously support ambitious customer service levels for a constantly expanding product portfolio. Of course, supply managers who focus on inventory know these pressures well.
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The Way You Prioritize Suppliers May Not Be Best Method for Mitigating Risk
The way suppliers are typically segmented may work well for prioritizing procurement resources on supplier selection, managing supplier performance, and supporting and developing strategic suppliers. But it doesn't always work well for prioritizing resources on risk management and compliance. Many B and C suppliers may be easily switched, but still represent large material risks to the company (such as litigation or regulatory fines).
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In 2013, E-Commerce Keeps Powering U.S. Industrial Market Fundamentals
Positive momentum continued in U.S. industrial markets through the first quarter of 2013 as e-commerce maintained its influence on reshaping industrial distribution strategies and facilities across the U.S., according to statistics released by commercial real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield Inc.
Implementing Collaborative Managed Inventory for Shelf Level Visibility Drives Value
Challenge: A major drug chain retailer needed to reduce inventory by over 30% without increasing out-of-stocks. The OTC supplier was interested in increasing visibility on downstream sales & inventory performance, while improving SLAs, and planning for future retailer integration needs.
Kenco Facilitates Seamless implementation of RedPrairie Across Distribution Network
Challenge: A major manufacturer in the healthcare industry needed to transition its multi-site network from an outdated, manual system to a state-of-the-art tier 1 warehouse, labor and transportation management system (RedPrairie) to effectively compete.
Dassault Systemes Launches Free Community With Access to SolidWorks
Dassault Systemes has launched a free community which provides single access to all content within SolidWorks, the vendor's application for product design and lifecycle management.
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