Filed in archive News
by ehsan on August 31, 2008
Supply chain optimization provider Manhattan Associates, Inc. has announced that Empik, Poland's leading lifestyle retail brand, offering an extensive range of cultural, knowledge and...
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Filed in archive General
by ehsan on August 31, 2008
Every year HighJump Software publishes a free copy of a template for selecting WMS packages. Even though this is a marketing move (obviously), the templates serves as a good source for getting ideas...
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Filed in archive Best practice
by ehsan on August 31, 2008
Subway restaurant chain, the world's largest submarine sandwich franchise, has named C.H. Robinson Worldwide as its "Supply Chain Partner of the Year." eTrucker reported. Selected out...
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The following video is very cool and I found it recently. It's about the recruiting process for supply chain positions in Domino's Pizza. The video features many interesting things such as...
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Filed in archive Point of view
by ehsan on August 31, 2008
I hear this question a lot that: "Is procurement a strategic function?" I looked around here and there beside my personal opinion to see what experts think about it and liked one answer from...
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Globalization has certainly had a great impact on Fortune 500 companies. In the video I have brought in this post, General Motor's Director of Supply Chain & IT Operations, Mark Hillman,...
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Filed in archive Employment
by ehsan on August 30, 2008
The Estée Lauder Companies appointed Gregory Polcer as executive vice president - global supply chain, effective July 31, 2008. He will oversee the company's end-to-end supply chain, which...
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by ehsan on August 30, 2008
A recent article in Bloomberg which was also covered by Supply Chain Matters has revealed the FDA plans to send 15 inspectors in three Chinese cities to scrutinize exports to the world's largest...
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Wal-Mart, found itself in a curious situation in India when entering the country. Barred by government restrictions, it couldn't directly operate as a retailer. As a result, the company's...
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Filed in archive General
by ehsan on August 30, 2008
If you are working in manufacturing/production environment, you know that batch management is one of the main cornerstones of manufacturing planning: It's mainly composed on recipe creation and...
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Filed in archive Research
by ehsan on August 30, 2008
Some while ago I wrote a piece on the MIT's Dr. Simchi Levi research on simulation of supply chain fuel cost. He was showing that in the case the fuel cost increase to high levels (around $200),...
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If you like supply chain collaboration , here comes a cool video: Duncan Lowe, Supply Strategy Director for PepsiCo UK & Ireland, interviewed by Professor Richard Wilding, Chair in Supply Chain...
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Filed in archive Basics
by ehsan on August 29, 2008
It's been a while since I wrote the last post. I have to apologize for that; I was in Sweden and then Turkey for my vacations and didn't find time for the new posts... So this is a comeback...
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Filed in archive Point of view
by ehsan on August 22, 2008
Beijing Olympics is a great logistics event from many aspects: More than 3 million athletes and journalists and spectators are gathering in the city, it is estimated that logistics services for the...
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Filed in archive Research
by ehsan on August 18, 2008
For a long period of time, in fact more than one hundred years, U.S. has been the number one nation to have the largest share of production in the world but according to a new research by Global...
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The declining sales in the car industry has put extra pressure on automakers and the big three in the U.S. are not an exception. That's why a while ago all of the chief purchasing officers in big...
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Here comes a new video: This one is from Ian Robins of Logistics Bureau, who talks about the importance of the warehouse design factors such as product master file. He mentions that many companies...
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Filed in archive News
by ehsan on August 08, 2008
I worked for quite sometime in the paper industry; it's a tough sector; It has been suffering for a long-time for more than ten years from overcapacity and the effect of internet has also reduced...
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Filed in archive Education
by ehsan on August 07, 2008
According to a press release by University of Arkansas, FedEx Freight has provided five scholarships to students in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas through the...
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