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Market Overview
on December 31, 2008
Shipping Digest has published the list of top 9 challenges in SCM in 2009. The list is highly affected by the economic downturn and within the risk management trends includes elements such as the foll...
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Book Review
on December 30, 2008
One of the good books I have seen recently related to the SCM principles, is the Third edition of "Global Supply Chain Management", written by Tage Skjott-Larsen et. al and published by Cope...
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News
on December 29, 2008
DHL is reducing the size of its activities in North America (Read the post: DHL ends its partnership with the American drugstore) but apparently the investment level is still up in Asia.
According t...
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Point of view
on December 29, 2008
AMR recently published the results of its new supply chain risk management survey and as the result, it was revealed that energy cost is the top concern for supply chain managers. The other categories...
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General
on December 28, 2008
Aerospace and Defense industry has been in the news particularly because of the Boeing's Dreamliner project delays. The once claimed innovative approach for plane design (collaboration with suppli...
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Technology
on December 28, 2008
Silicon Republic has recently published an article on new advancements in WMS solutions and one of them was voice recognition technologies. This technology which has been introduced in the last five y...
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merger and acquisition
on December 28, 2008
Ryder System, Inc., a supply chain, warehousing and transportation management solutions provider, announced last week that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of substantially all th...
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Research
on December 27, 2008
A new report published by Aberdeen Group features the importance of Supply Chain Intelligence for global companies. As the M&As, penetration into new markets, growing product and supplier portfoli...
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Basics
on December 26, 2008
Another year passed with Supplychainer and the weblog is not entering its fifth year proving the news update, point of views and insights on SCM. I think this has been possible through your support; s...
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Best practice
on December 26, 2008
SteelGuru reported this week that agility was awarded the prestigious Supply Chain Innovation Award at the Supply Chain Asia Awards function in Shanghai recently.
At a ceremony attended by 350 leadin...
