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SupplyLink English Channel (Free subscription) | yesterday
While Business Intelligence (BI) has delivered powerful results for many companies over the past decade, the majority of applications focused on marketing, sales, and customer and financial analysis, and less on operations and supply chain activities. However, as supply chain management becomes an increasingly important, strategic and competitive factor for many companies, the tide is now [...]
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Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
# 2282 Over the past 40 years or so, we've seen an amazing transformation of how business is conducted in developed nations. We've streamlined our production capabilities to match demand, we've created JIT ( Just-in-Time ) Inventory delivery systems to eliminate warehouse costs, and we've increasingly come to rely on high-tech professionals to keep everything running smoothly. While the rewards of...
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GadBall.com (Free subscription) | 56 minutes ago
Location Saint Louis, MO Virtual OfficeTelecommute (link removed) (Things you should know about Virtual Office) Virtual Work Not Available Shift First Business Unit Integrated Defense Sys Division Support Systems Program Support Sys Engr And Prod Supp Occupation Title Supply Chain Support Skills Management Title Modeling & Simulation Job Classification GCB3P4 Job Type Non-Management Experience Level...
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Bakersfield.com (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
MARK BATASKA has been appointed vice president of logistics and supply chain management, a new position at Sun World International LLC, the company announced. In his new Bakersfield-based position, Bataska is to be responsible for strategic and operational planning, dealing with quality control, transportation, packing-house facilities and material procurement. He previously worked in supply chain...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
BANGALORE: Hindustan Petroleum Corporation is implementing a radio frequency identification solution designed by IBM, to monitor movement of LPG cylinders. HPCL can track the cylinders during bottling, distribution and at the supply chain ...
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Sourcing Innovation (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The 6th Annual PMAC/MeRC International Supply Chain Management Symposium is coming up next month. It starts with the 3rd annual Doctoral Colloquium on Wednesday, October 15 and the welcome reception that night and the main body of the conference is on Thursday, October 16 and Friday October 17. This year, their keynotes are from Mr. Dean D. Loria from Shell Canada Limited, Dr. Terry L. Esper from the...
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broadstuff (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Interesting article in the McKinsey Quarterly about the impact of higher energy and labour prices on offshoring economics - conclusion is that, for those who have used offshoring: .......changing economic conditions may have undermined your supply chain advantage. This may be an appropriate moment to reevaluate the location of your manufacturing facilities. Take the total landed-cost analysis to the...
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iPodNN (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Apple's event scheduled for September 9th may be very narrowly focused, says analyst Shaw Wu of American Technology Research. Wu notes that aside from the invitation image, which clearly references iPods, supply chain checks suggest that the event will be almost exclusively iPod-focused, likely excluding the new Macs expected by other research groups such as Piper Jaffray.Changes to the iPod line...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
ATLANTA, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Logility, Inc. (Nasdaq:
LGTY), a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply
chain, announced today that Ron Burnette, product director, Logility, will
present "Thinking About a Green Supply Chain" at the Forecaster's Business
Forecasting and Planning Excellence event on Monday, September 8 in Las
Vegas.
Sustainability and green efforts...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
As part of its commitment to providing its customers with comprehensive services that span the entire clinical supply chain, Bilcare Global Clinical Supplies, a leading single-source provider of clinical trial supplies and services, has enhanced its global Phase III capabilities.
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Sourcing Innovation (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
There was a great article recently in Supply Chain Brain that described a litany of failure. In measuring the value of supply chain consultants, the authors review five horror stories that resulted from consulting engagements. This article was very enlightening as it did a great job of what can go wrong when you fail to work with your consultants and heed their advice. Even though consultants are cheap,...
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Supply Excellence (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
So far the steel industry trends to watch next year have been extensions or acceleration of current conditions - Industry Consolidation and Vertical Integration. Both are extremely important for buyers to monitor since they have short and long term impacts on steel price and supply. But our third trend to watch in 2009, Steel Futures, [more]
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The Heritage Foundation Papers (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
A new Government Accountability Office report found that blanket scanning is not only bad for trade but hinders the ability of the international community to improve supply chain security worldwide. This report is not the first round of bad news for 100 percent scanning, and indications are that it will not be the last. Congress must recognize the disastrous consequences of 100 percent scanning and...
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China Business Success Stories (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Factory audits are well and good, but covert monitoring and other complimentary tools can help uncover hidden costs. Anyone who has bought a pair of sneakers in the past 20 years knows that most of the world’s athletic shoes are produced in China. And if China is the capital of shoe production, then Fujian Province [...]
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avanquest | 03/04/2008
Avanquest Solutions has delivered a Supply Chain Management and Accounts Payable solution at Northern Marine Management Limited (NMM) to speed up procurement and payment business processes. This has increased productivity and cut costs, “By reducing the volume of paper we send around the world” said Dominic Fernandez, Senior Finance Manager at NMM.
