It was a while since I last read a REALLY new thing in supply chain but today I read a piece in Supply and Demand Chain Executive which was quite interesting and like the new blood in my veins!!...

Among the partnership news from last week, one notable one was between FreeFlow, a provider of inventory asset management services, and Andlor, a provider of reverse logistics software for...

We all know that only a fraction of companies implementing enterprise software can achieve a positive ROI from their system implementation projects (SAP, Oracle, or any other). A good area for...

Despite the existing barriers of using RFID in the retail sector, some companies have been able to implement the tchnology in a profitable way. One of the success stories is a book retailer in...

Even though today there is a business case for using the RFID technology in pallets for the purpose of asset tracking (for expensive equipments), the technology sill hasn`t found its way to the...

Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS ) involve small tags that can signal their location at all times without the need for a nearby RFID reader. This technology is workable and affordable to meet a...

Well, remember the earlier post which I wrote on the new supplier relationship system at Boeing? I warned about the drawbacks of over-outsourcing the design activities to the suppliers AND...Here it...

Manufacturing companies are already using active RFID and Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS) in their businesses - thus providing the ultimate supply chain and the ideal control of parts, materials,...

These days that greening supply chains have found their way to the top of the agenda specially in industries such as electronics and semi-conductors, the related media also covered some of the aspects...

Short news for the people who do business with Africa: The results of a survey about trade logistics done by World Bank shows that the following countries have the most reliable supply chains in...

Steven Schaffer, vice president of global partners at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, was selected couple of weeks ago as the supply chain manager of the year by Purchasing Magazine. One of the reasons...

And finally the third part of the presentation from Mike Bellamy of PassageMaker. If you want to see the 1-3 parts, you can go here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. I don´t know how you feel now about...

You may have read my earlier post on the overview of the market for enterprise software and applications and the role of Oracle. As I mentioned there, Oracle´s strategy for growth is based...

Here comes the third part of the presentation from Mike Bellamy from PassageMaker. In this part he elaborates more on the problem of the products being copied by suppliers and suggests some solutions....