Robyn Meredith, who's Senior Editor, Asia for Forbes Magazine recently published a book called "The Elephant and the Dragon" which is about the rise of India and China in the Global...
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by ehsan on November 30, 2007
Broadlane announced that Lodi Memorial Hospital in Lodi, California, has selected the company to provide an array of supply chain services under an exclusive agreement. Under the agreement, Broadlane...
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by ehsan on November 29, 2007
Recently i2 Technologies, Inc., the supply chain company, announced an agreement with HCL Technologies, one of India's leading global IT services companies. The companies will leverage HCL's...
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by ehsan on November 29, 2007
The specialist imaging procurement team at NHS Supply Chain is to support a Birmingham foundation trust in equipping a new hospital. The University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is to...
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by ehsan on November 28, 2007
One of the recent wins of Optiant in the area of inventory optimization has been P&G. In fact the company is using P&G brand here and there as a marketing strategy :), well not bad at all... I...
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by ehsan on November 28, 2007
One of the interesting issues which I saw in a new research report from Aberdeen Group was that, most of the companies that want to implement International Transportation Management Systems (TMS) find...
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The video in this post is part of a T.V. report which talks about the current stage of the logistics industry in Hong Kong and its challenges. Right Now, as it is mentioned in the video as well, HK...
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by ehsan on November 26, 2007
Renault SA has announced the creation of a new department covering supply chain and logistics, with responsibilities including managing production and transport capacities, and organizing transport...
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by ehsan on November 26, 2007
Agility was the winner of the Best Airfreight Forwarder Award at the inaugural Supply Chain Asia Awards at a glittering ceremony in Hong Kong. According to AME Info., Olaf Tauschke, Agility's...
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by ehsan on November 22, 2007
LLamasoft Inc., the provider of supply chain network design software, announced the opening of an office in Singapore to support Asian market demand. LLamasoft's Singapore office will provide...
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by ehsan on November 21, 2007
Rolls-Royce, the manufacturer of gas turbines and engines, has been testing RFID for use in tracking its internal supply chain. Ultimately, the company hopes to determine whether the technology can be...
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by ehsan on November 21, 2007
The wave of acquisition is now moving from integrated solution providers such as SAP or Oracle to pure-player companies and a recent example of that is Sterling Commerce. Sterling Commerce has...
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by ehsan on November 19, 2007
Christmas is coming; everybody is happy: The kids are happy because they are going to get lots of presents, parents are happy coz they can rest a bit after that or go on a trip, marketing and sales...
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by ehsan on November 19, 2007
Couple of weeks ago, the China Supply Chain Council presented its CHaINA Awards for the third times to celebrate superior achievements that are enabled by supply chain management in China. Over 150...
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by ehsan on November 17, 2007
If we take a look at the cost structure of hospitals, we can easily see two big chunks (I mean main cost categories!): Personnel and supply. If we focus on the second one which constitutes 25-30...
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by ehsan on November 15, 2007
General Motors has developed a set of best practices based on social networking and open source projects to specify how IT suppliers and users companies communicate. The standard is designed to...
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by ehsan on November 15, 2007
I think a while ago I had a post about the World Bank`s recent ranking of the countries in respect to trade logistics and the situation in Africa. Well, here you can see the full ranking. The...
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I found this cool video about the simulation of the process of using RFID in the warehouse. It`s very interesting to see that especially if you want to show or teach someone how the technology might...
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