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by ehsan on November 30, 2008
Two thirds of North American Supply Chain Executives will maintain or increase their investment in technology solutions and services next year, according to the 2008 eyefortransport North American...
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by ehsan on November 27, 2008
Manhattan Associates, announced this week that Global Shipping & Logistics (GSL), one of the Middle East's leading logistics service providers, has made key improvements in the service it...
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by ehsan on October 31, 2008
According to Supply & Demand Chain Executive, Manhattan Associates has announced that the purchasing and procurement arm of Weldom, the home improvement brand, has selected several components of...
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by ehsan on October 18, 2008
In the recent market share report prepared by Gartner regarding supply chain software applications in Russia, Manhattan Associates has been ranked No. 1. Manhattan, which according to Globenewswire,...
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by ehsan on September 30, 2008
Traditionally the market for consulting services in supply chain was focusing on the control, operations harmonization and logistics cost cutting efforts. In other words, the traditional focus supply...
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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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I just read somewhere that SAP has reached the record of more than 10,000 clients using its late version ERP software. That's a great success and has already put SAP as the dominant leader in the...
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In the light of the rising energy costs, P&G has started re-thinking its supply chain management model. In a recent article by Financial Times (you can read the article here), Keith Harrison, head...
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It seems that Supply Chain Vendors are having a good time because revenues at the supply chain vendors increased 17.6 percent from 2006 to 2007, from $5.1 billion to $6 billion, according to CIO...
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It's common knowledge that the price of Diesel in the U.S. has been rising like crazy. For example, average price per gallon of diesel is currently $4.143 per gallon-representing an 8.4 cent spike...
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Even though the diesel prices are quite high these days, American truck companies are willing to spend even more taxes for building road and other infrastructure. Bill Graves, president and CEO of the...
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Supply Chain Management Review recently released its outlook for supply chain technology in 2008. According to the magazine, companies are buying more collaborative technologies this year (internal...
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I don't know whether you heard about it or not but apparently Dell is closing down its Texas plant and moves into contract manufacturing. After a number of not very satisfactory financial...
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A recent research done by CAPS Center for Strategic Supply Research found that purchased services averaged 39% of total purchasing spending. However, about 69% of the supply chain management...
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by ehsan on February 13, 2008
You have definitely heard of the existing hype on the "Software as a Service". The current market which started by companies such as Siebel or Workforce.com in CRM area, now constitutes 5%...
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by ehsan on January 29, 2008
On interesting blog which I read recently was on the topic risk management in supply chains which highlighted the increasing importance of this issue, especially in sectors which cost factor and has a...
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by ehsan on January 17, 2008
Manufacturing Insights, a research company of IDC, recently published a report containing top 10 trends in SCM for the year 2008: 1- Large manufacturing firms will move toward a globally integrated...
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by ehsan on December 13, 2007
Surprisingly, traffic in October at United States-based retail container ports was down compared to the same timeframe last year for the third consecutive month, according to Logistics Management...
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by ehsan on December 05, 2007
ERP has been around for quite a bit but beside the consolidation which is happening, there is still a significant growth rate in the market. This is good news for the implementation consultants such...
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