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Flash Global Opens Office in Silicon Valley
Flash Global, a provider of supply-chain services for critical parts, has opened an office in San Jose, Calif.
The Wait's Over: SEC Finally Acts on Rule to Track Conflict Minerals
Moving at the blinding speed of bureaucracy, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has finally adopted a rule that requires manufacturers to report on their use of conflict minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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A New Generation of Airships for Cargo Transport
Barry Prentice, professor of supply chain management at the University of Manitoba, believes that airships will play a key role in the movement of cargo in the years ahead. Here's why.
Those Pushing Social CRM Shouldn't Forget Lessons Learned When 'Traditional' CRM Started
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, wrote George Santayana, and if you've observed technology long, you know that the cycles of repetition become shorter with each passing year. When it comes to CRM, we're seeing it again in the form of social CRM: companies are making the same mistakes they made at the start of the CRM era.
Which Tool Do You Need to Analyze, Interpret Huge Amounts of Data Collected?
In the last few decades, statisticians and computer scientists have produced a dazzling arsenal of extremely powerful tools to help managers translate data into business decisions.
Analysis of Product Lifecycle Management Applications in Retail Available
An IDC MarketScape report from IDC Retail Insights finds that product lifecycle management has evolved to become a central lynchpin for retailers to conduct customer-centric, efficient and effective brand management. The new study, IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail Product Life-Cycle Management (PLM) Applications 2012 Vendor Assessment, examines the impact of retail PLM and its ability to improve return on capital and brand equity, while reducing risk. Vendors evaluated in this report include: Centric Software, Core Solutions, Dassault Systemes, Gerber, Lectra, NGC, PTC, SAP, Siemens and TradeStone Software.
ES3s Collaborative Solutions Puts Your Product There When it Matters
Challenge: To create a system that allows for product to always be on the shelf, saving the consumer time and making his/her shopping experience easier.
The Wait's Over: SEC Finally Acts on Rule to Track Conflict Minerals
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Specialty Chemical Manufacturer Gets Enterprise-Wide Visibility and Collaboration
Challenge: Our customer was struggling with unstable demand and lack of visibility across its five manufacturing plants in a mixed MTS/MTO environment. The firm needed to improve planning processes and get everyone collaborating on one set of numbers.
Industrial Supplier Superstore Keeps Next-Day Promise with Distribution Center Redesign
Challenge: Our client made a bold promise to its customers. Order any of its 600,000 products from its vast super store of industrial supplies by 8:00 pm EST, and get next day delivery. But with more than 2 million square feet of warehouse space and the highest SKU count in the industry, keeping that promise was a challenge.
Vitally Important Consensus-Driven Demand Plan Easier to Talk About Than to Achieve
A functioning demand-planning process is a key enabler for supply chain organizations, and getting the process right is fundamental to improving demand-planning effectiveness, according to Gartner analysts.
Product Protection Rises as a Top Supply Chain Concern Among Healthcare Execs
Healthcare executives around the world are investing in their supply chains as they prepare for continued global growth in an increasingly complex and dynamic environment, according to data from the fifth annual UPS "Pain in the (Supply) Chain" healthcare survey.
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