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News
by ehsan on February 28, 2009
Schenker of Canada Limited, said last week it has selected SmartTurn Inc.'s Inventory and Warehouse Management System to track its inventory and streamline the delivery process, SDCE reported.
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Supply chain video
by ehsan on February 28, 2009
Here comes the forth and last part of the video "Managing the supply chain in a tough economy". This part features Rob Handfield's last messages for treating the recession. He believes t...
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Research
by ehsan on February 28, 2009
A new study by World Economic Forum and supported by Accenture shows that only 10 percent of businesses are managing the greenhouse gas emissions in their supply chains, with more than a third having ...
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Market Overview
by ehsan on February 28, 2009
Manhattan Associates has reported sales of £30 million ($42.8 million) for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region during 2008, a 16 per cent increase compared to the previous year.
According to Su...
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Supply chain video
by ehsan on February 28, 2009
Here comes the third part of the video by Rob Handfield, the Bank of America Professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University (You can see the first part and second part here &a...
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General
by ehsan on February 28, 2009
If you look at the consulting market for supply chain today, you clearly see that many companies are not investing in big transformational projects but tend to spend money on quick cost reduction work...
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Research
by ehsan on February 28, 2009
A Global Supply Chain study by IBM, based on 400 interviews in 25 countries, reveals that 70 percent say their number one challenge is overwhelming and fragmented data, as well as a lack of ability to...
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Supply chain video
by ehsan on February 28, 2009
This is the second part of the video from Rob Handfield, Professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University. In this part he talks about the results of the survey the recently did...
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Employment
by ehsan on February 23, 2009
As the result of the economic recession and job layoffs, Supply Chain Online, a UK-based popular job site for the supply chain and procurement sector, has experienced its strongest ever month for cand...
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Supply chain video
by ehsan on February 22, 2009
We are in tough times where having enough cash really matters! and since supply chain can have a tremendous effect in freeing cash, we should think about the ways we can use to position our supply cha...
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Research
by ehsan on February 19, 2009
A report by the US Joint Forces Command published in January 2009 caught some by surprise: "In terms of worst-case scenarios for the Joint Force and indeed the world, two large and important stat...
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Practical Tips
by ehsan on February 19, 2009
John Westerveld of Kinaxis has written an excellent post on supply chain risk management (the post can be read here). He uses an SCMR article as a basis for his arguments and mentions that you have to...
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Research
by ehsan on February 16, 2009
Aberdeen Group recently published a new report aimed at providing ideas on supply chain strategies for life science sector. The results of the analysis done by Aberdeen were quite interesting as they ...
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General
by ehsan on February 14, 2009
Coupa, provider of on-demand procurement solution has published a whitepaper with the title "10 Secret Strategies To Recession-Proof Your Business". I took a look at it and found some intere...
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merger and acquisition
by ehsan on February 14, 2009
At the end, the acquisition of ILOG by IBM is a bit stabilized and Even though the new parent company is known more for supplying IT infrastructure products, ILOG says it will not abandon users of its...
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Products
by ehsan on February 14, 2009
I wrote a post recently about adoption of social networking features and Web 2.0 by supply chain vendors. Here comes another example from Inovis:
Inovis which provides solutions for managing busines...
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Best practice
by ehsan on February 9, 2009
PrimeRevenue, the provider of supply chain finance solutions, announced last week that it has been named Best Supply Chain Finance Company by Financial-i Magazine. PrimeRevenue was selected as part of...
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Products
by ehsan on February 9, 2009
I guess all of you are familiar with Web 2.0 movements, websites and platforms like Facebook or YouTube and the impact which these socially driven solutions have had on our lives.
Apparently the Web...
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Supply chain video
by ehsan on February 5, 2009
This is the third part of the a video discussion video on supply chain and visibility (See the first part and second part by clicking on the links). In this part, the discussion is about the role of d...
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Point of view
by ehsan on February 5, 2009
I think consumer goods sector was one of the few industries where some companies gained from economic crisis (companies in food sector e.g. GENERAL MILLS) and some companies ended up with lots of inve...
