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Vocollect Walks the Talk for Burris Logistics

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Advanced Order Fulfillment Requires Warehouses With 'On Demand' Capability

Increased offshore manufacturing coupled with growing demands for more customized products and rapid delivery require a more flexible order-fulfillment model. Supply-chain strategists and solution providers are responding to this challenge.

Discount Retailer Doesn't Skimp On Supply-chain Investments

Fast-growing Dollar General Corp. undercuts Wal-Mart on prices, even as it spends heavily on new systems to enhance transportation, warehousing and supplier links.

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Seeking Excellence Within The Four Walls of the Warehouse

In a perfect world, the tight coordination of systems and processes would allow goods to flow continuously from manufacturer to customer. With total understanding of consumer demand, who needs a lot of excess product taking up valuable real estate? • Second in the Best Practices series.

Loading Dock Visibility Gives Retailers View of Inventory at All Times

A real-time view into inbound shipments helps retailers avoid stock-outs and other nightmares at a critical juncture - the point of sale.

Whether Building Block or Hurdle, VMI Generates Renewed Interest

Is vendor-managed inventory a boon to suppliers or another problem for them to overcome? Regardless of where you come down on that question, analysts say a confluence of forces is whipping up renewed interest in VMI.

Time Warner Books Creates a Showpiece for Distribution

Improvements in warehousing and transportation have created a profit center at the publisher's centralized distribution facility.

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TaylorMade Drives Supply-Chain Efficiency With 24-Hour Club

Customization is the centerpiece of a strategy that wakes up the big golf supplier and propels it ahead of the competition in terms of agility and innovation.

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SPECIAL ISSUE: GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN PARTNERSHIPS - Columbia Sportswear: For Automated Warehouses, a WMS Spanning Two Continents

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True Value Battles Adversity With Supply-chain Efficiency

Serving the nation's largest cooperative of independent hardware stores, struggling True Value aims to secure member loyalty through a world-class supply chain.

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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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Hershey Kisses Its Supply-chain Inefficiency Good-bye

Rapid growth, acquisition of a company with different distribution characteristics and a troubled ERP implementation created supply-chain problems for Hershey Foods in the late 1990s. A new strategy that focused on fulfillment speed and agility helped turn things around.

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