U.S. Army has prepared a really nice video about the implementation of ERP in their organization. The video serves as a good introduction to the history of ERP systems from MRP to MRP2 and then ERP...

Global Supply Chain Council, one of our oldest partners, published a piece recently about the situation of WMS software in China. The author of the piece which its title is "The WMS industry...

Tompkins Associates, the supply chain solutions and integration firm, has named Mark Buffum as its new Chief Operating Officer. Buffum will play a key role in continuing Tompkins' expansion to...

Iconic glue producer Elmer's Products has tapped a solution from Kewill as part of an initiative to streamline its order to fulfillment process and to fully automate the company's four...

Oracle has introduced its latest version of Oracle Strategic Network Optimization with some risk management features which are aimed at helping customers design and implement flexible, risk-tolerant...

Having the right number of SKUs with the right quantity has always been a challenge in the service centers. Many SKUs are slow moving and keeping them is a waste of money: Well, everybody knows that...

Britain's largest UK- farmer-owned business First Milk says it expects to optimize production across its cheese division sites nation-wide and to integrate all key business processes when it goes...

There are three typical strategies for increasing profitability of a company: (1) To increase the sales of the same product in the existing market (Usually by taking share of competitors) (2) Selling...

As the companies grow and become global, their supply chains also become more complex and thus they face more risks compared to the past. So, what should they do? Well, we can not say that they...

If you are a supply chain specialist in High-tech industry or offering supply chain consulting services to this sector, there exist a good opportunity for networking at the end of this month. Second...

The term Resilient has become really popular these days and refers to companies which are good at dealing with challenges of disruption in their supply chains. Yossi Sheffi of MIT also wrote a book...

One of the new areas in supply chain management (which I´m working in :)) in product lifecycle Management (PLM). This field covers almost all the things in the value chain of the product from the...

There are a number of solutions available in the market for forecasting and inventory management. In this post, I decided to introduce one which provide decent functionality with rather cheap price...

If you remember couple of months ago Jet Blue, American airline company, had many problems making money after a long run of bad lucks. Since then the company as taken many initiatives to cut costs and...

It is difficult for large multi-billion dollar markets to grow rapidly, but the supply chain execution (SCE) market will achieve that feat, according to a new study from analyst firm ARC Advisory...

Many logistics professionals who find it hard to enroll in MBA programs or Master programs in logistics, in order to keep themselves up-to-date, choose short term executive programs instead. There are...

I think managing logistics processes in formula 1 races would be one of the most interesting (and at the same time challenging) supply chain related tasks because of the attractiveness of the project...

Xterprise, a provider in RFID supply chain solutions, announced earlier this week that it has joined the Microsoft camp by choosing Microsoft's process server as its preferred SOA/BPM platform....

This might be the question in the minds of many logistics managers: "Which one should I go for: MBA or Master in supply chain?" The answer is the first one if you are shooting for a C-level...