Finally last week, AMR Research released the result of its ranking for 2008 best supply chains. The top 5 include: 1. Apple 2. Nokia 3. Dell 4. Procter & Gamble 5. IBM It's surprising to me...

Every supply chain software has a beta client; the question is whether at the time of implementation, they know they are Beta client or not. I think in the international firms at Fortune 500 level,...

U.S. congressman John P. Murtha has announced that Lockheed Martin Corporation, the world's largest defense contractor, will establish a new Global Supply Chain Services business in Johnstown that...

Global logistics carrier DHL has opened a €300 million new distribution hub in Leipzig, Germany, to offer a faster service to its clients, Managing Automation reported. The move reflects the...

Recent trends in the logistics market such as rising price of fuel, tougher regulations on transport (e.g. in Europe) and different service level requirements by clients have caused some new...

Companies can get recognition in many ways: By spending a lot of bucks on advertising, by doing CSR-related activities or simply by offering good products. Increasingly, supply chain is also becoming...

A new platform called China eHealthcare Exchange has been established via a partnership between GXS and Shanghai Agile Supply Chain Information System Company Limited. According to China Supply Chain...

Infor recently announced that it has donated software licenses for Infor SCM Network Design, supply chain planning and analysis software to the University of Arkansas. According to PR-Canada, Infor...

IBM's Research and IBM Global Business Services have recently created the Carbon Tradeoff Modeler, a tool that recommends best practices to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by analyzing packaging...

SDCE reported that the Polish Ministry of Defense (PMD) is deploying a RFID solution provided by Savi, to automate tracking and management of military supplies. This marks the second largest...

Many companies treat purchasing function as backwater as McKinsey says and don't assign the best talent to it. However, this function is of great importance and if we look closely, in many...

Some while ago MIT organized a very interesting event on Auto-ID and how it can be used to improve supply chain. The lectures were all great and covered many industries and organizations: From...

Yes! Finally Supplychainer.com reached the level of 1000 posts in its website. I wanted to take this as an opportunity to thank all the supporters of Supplychainer; especially Erci Joiner, Jeff...

Solution provider Enporion announced that it has done a successful SAS 70 audit, an independent auditor's review of its e-commerce supply chain management hosted solutions, Supply and Demand Chain...

One of the issues many supply chain managers are facing, especially when designing or changing the supply chain network is where to locate the facilities. Well, I was thinking of creating a sample and...

Dr Patrick Dixon, the futurist and management professional, recently gave a keynote speech on how to speed up supply chain and logistics. My evaluation of his talk: IT'S VERY INTERESTING... I...

Supply chain and operational efficiency and synergy is the motivation for many of the M&A deals today. However many of such benefit estimation don't materialize after the deal. There are a...

Aldata Solution announced at the FMI Show/Marketechnics that Price Chopper has selected the Aldata G.O.L.D. Retail Supply Chain Suite to centralize merchandising and procurement and to improve...

The 10th Annual European Supply Chain & Logistics Summit, is going to host a number of big names this year. The ones which are already confirmed include: - Head of Manufacturing - Pirelli - VP of...