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CEOs Should Stop Squinting in the Rear-view (Data) Mirror, and Look Ahead
If the company is the bus and its leader is the driver, as Jim Collins' famous analogy states, then it stands to reason that when the bus is moving, the driver should mostly be looking out the windshield (toward the future) rather than consulting the rear-view mirror.
Effective Inventory Management in Bulk Distribution
It doesn't matter if the cost of supply is at an all-time high or fluctuating wildly, the impact of excess inventory and inefficient operations can be crippling to cash flow in bulk distribution.
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Kenco Implements FDA Validated System to Deliver 50% Productivity Improvement
Challenge: A pharmaceutical customer's growing order volumes and regulatory compliance needs prompted Kenco to reevaluate the customer's technology solution.
Improving Efficiency and Customer Service with MacroPoint and RTF Integration
Challenge: To provide accurate delivery information to customers and to enhance the quality of its customer service, Mountain Company needed to enable an automated load tracking solution that would provide accurate information without relying on verbal communication.
Beverage Producer Improves Carrier Performance and Customer Satisfaction
Challenge: This leading producer of spirits and wine lacked visibility of its ocean shipments and carrier performance levels. The company relied on each partner's individual tracking system, a process made more difficult as exports and revenues grew.
Sales, Prices of Used Class 8 Trucks Continue to Rise
Used Class 8 truck metrics were generally in line from June to July, with average age and miles up an incremental 1 percent each. Compared to last year, average prices were up 2 percent in July and 6 percent year to date, according to the latest release of the State of the Industry: U.S. Classes 3-8 Used Trucks, published by ACT Research.
JDA Integrates Supply-Chain Apps With IBM Commerce
JDA Software Group Inc. has integrated its JDA Intelligent Fulfillment and Labor Productivity applications with order-management software from IBM Commerce.
Dow Chemical: A Supply Chain Under Constant Change
Noelle Walsh, corporation vice president of supply chain with The Dow Chemical Company, outlines the chemical industry giant's efforts to become more customer-focused, while synchronizing its supply chain upstream to suppliers, and downstream to customers.
Are Makers of IoT Devices, Systems Obligated to Build in Anti-hacking Security?
With the current state of IoT security, we might call it the Internet-of-Vulnerable-Things. It's all the more alarming because of the types of physical machines/systems that are increasingly network-connected - traffic lights, airplanes, nuclear power plants, and other critical or potentially lethal systems.
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A Same-Day Delivery Provider Drops Out, But the Race Goes On
In the increasingly frantic race to offer same-delay delivery to online purchasers, one contestant has spun out and hit a wall.
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Inttra Unveils Dashboards to Measure Shipment Reliability, Booking Speed
Inttra, an ocean-shipping electronic marketplace, has introduced Inttra Marketplace Decision Support.
360pi Launches E-mail Alert Service for Product Price Changes
360pi, a provider of product intelligence for retailers and consumer brands, has launched 360alerts, an email alert service that tracks product price changes.
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