The year 2006 is ending and if I want to summarize it in one sentence I can say: That was a wonderful year! I personally as a writer and SupplyChainer.com as a technology blog made a lot of...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is to co-operate with the European Co-operation in Science and Technology program (COST) in research strengthening the safety and security of Europe's...

United Parcel Service Inc. announced recently that it has offered "voluntary separation opportunities" to 650 workers at its corporate office in Atlanta, and at its Supply Chain Solutions...

And as one of the highlights of December 2006 look at this: RedPrairie Corporation and StorePerform Technologies, Inc. announced two weeks ago that they have signed a definitive agreement, whereby...

A supply and retail logistics program that reduced inventory levels has allowed the Myer department store chain to pay down $100 million of debt early. When the new management of Myer, bought by a...

This year, Michigan State University's Broad School of Business could make it...Now Broad is in Business Week's top 30 list and Director of Admissions Jeff McNish thinks that reputation of the...

Bernie Hart from JP Morgan Chase Vastera provided a list of top supply chain risks in 2007 in Electronics Supply and Manufacturing which seemed quite interesting to me. Below you can read a shortened...

Agile Software Corporation, provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, announced last week that Spansion will deploy Agile PLM across its entire enterprise to improve enterprise...

According to Consultant News, after a long and very successful career with Procter and Gamble, (P&G), Chris Poole has joined PA Consulting Group as a member of the management team, where his focus...

Electronics Supply and Manufacturing has listed three areas where opportunities exist for companies to increase their market share and sharpen their competitiveness: 1. Proliferation of bilateral and...

Oracle Corp. is creating a unified set of pricing schemes for its myriad applications that users hope can simplify what has become a complex maze. The updated schedule, announced this week,...

As we had mentioned before, year 2006 is ending and what we are going to do is to announce the list of the best supply chain partners in 2006. Our approach for preparing this list is based on the...

The Canadian Wheat Board launched a multi-year initiative aimed at revamping its grain marketing supply chain that is expected to translate into millions of dollars in annual savings and increased...

Christopher Sciacca has a nice post on NASA's current plans to outsource the shipments of water, food and clean clothes to the spaceships. In his blog, Who said supply chains are boring?, he...

(Note: Here is the third part of the Logistics Management's summary on trends in price of different modes of transportation) It's difficult to interview Wall Street analysts about the railroad...

There is clearly massive buying power to drive sustainable products and this demand for "green" goods and services presents a prime opportunity for suppliers, keen to pass on innovation to...

According to AMR Research, 52 percent of global manufacturing companies have less than two years of experience in supply chain management. To meet this growing need for supply chain management...

The crème-de-la-crème of the corporate world descended upon Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's S P Jain Institute of Management and Research campus in Mumbai, India on December 2, 2006 to be a part of and...