Business News
Charting a different course - Chicago Tribune
Getting an MBA is still the logical step toward the corner office, but more students are veering off the beaten path. Business schools increasingly are offering a wide range...
Vodafone Ghana's 'Healthline' wins international award - Vibe Ghana
Vodafone Ghana’s groundbreaking initiative, ‘Healthline’ has been awarded the Best Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Initiative at the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), UK, Awards Ceremony in...
Gaining In-Demand Skills in Today's Top Fields May Be the Best Investment You ... - eReleases (press release)
Invest in yourself! That’s the key message emphasized in the new spring 2012 Executive Education Online catalog, which supplies course and enrollment information for 100% online certificate programs....
Electrolux rolls out supply chain management program in Asia - The Asset
As the Asia-Pacific region becomes more and more important for global appliance company Electrolux, regional tax and treasury head Vipul Gupta is in the midst of rolling out...
Global supply chain management software market grows - ChannelBiz
The worldwide supply chain management (SCM) software market has increased in revenue by 12.3 percent since 2010. According to a report by Gartner, this market totalled $7.7 billion in...
Supply Chain Management as a Service (SCMaaS) – Is it Real? - The 21st Century Supply Chain - Perspectives on
As the old song goes, “the times are-a-changing”. I was captivated this weekend by a blog post from Lora Cecere who went to great pains to highlight the revolution (versus...
GARTNER, INC. : Gartner Says Worldwide Supply Chain Management Software Market ... - 4-traders
The worldwide supply chain management (SCM) software market totaled $7.7 billion in 2011, a 12.3 percent increase from ...
IBM experts present recommendations to Ministry of Health - GhanaWeb
A team of IBM experts has presented to the Ministry of Health (MOH) a forward-looking blueprint to provide Ghanaians access to health care, while improving the availability of...
10 Practices to Secure the Supply Chain - GovInfoSecurity.com
Guidance that identifies 10 overarching practices to mitigate supply chain risks is being developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Supply chain risks can occur when organizations...
Infosys Targets US Manufacturing Resurgence Factors - Supply & Demand Chain Executive
While in the past manufacturing leveraged labor arbitrage (which ultimately moved U.S. work to lower-cost countries such as China or India), now key factors—including low U.S. energy costs,...
E FUN Announces Distribution Partnership With SED International - Exec Digital (press release)
E FUN, a consumer electronics designer and manufacturer of fun, easy-to-use lifestyle products, announced today a partnership with SED International Holdings, Inc., (SED), a multinational supply chain management...
Ryder Executives to Speak at the 2012 Alternative Clean Transportation Expo - SunHerald.com
Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE:R), a leader in commercial transportation and supply chain management solutions, announced today that Scott Perry, Vice President of Supply Management for Ryder, will be...
IQNavigator Wins SIIA CODiE Award for Best Supply Chain Management Solution - Virtual-Strategy Magazine
IQNavigator Inc., the leading provider of services e-procurement solutions to Global 2000 companies, today announced it has won the SIIA CODiE Award for the Best Supply Chain Management...
ITC, NCSL Holds First Trainers of Trainees Workshop - AllAfrica.com
National Consultancy Services Limited (NCSL) a local organization in collaboration with International Trade Center (ITC) offer training session the first of its kind for trainees with an intention...
Darden names new supply chain chief - Orlando Sentinel
Moullet said in a news release that he will "transition to new opportunities in academia and consulting following some time with family this summer." Darden said that will...
Japanese interested infood processing, logistics - The Hindu
Japanese investors are looking at the food processing and logistics sectors for investments in the State, Shinya Fuji, director-general, Japan External Trade Organisation, and Masanori Nakano, Consul-General, have...
Micrel promotes Robert Wahl to managing director
Micrel Inc. said Thursday it has promoted Robert Wahl to managing director of...
GSU offers new online MBA supply chain management program - nwitimes.com
Beginning in the spring 2013 semester, the College of Business and Public Administration at Governors State University will offer a fully online, accelerated Master of Business Administration with...
Center for Supply Chain Management to conduct key healthcare survey - PressZoom (press release)
The Center for Supply Chain Management in Marquette University’s College of Business Administration and the Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management, in collaboration with Jamie C. Kowalski...
Land O' Lakes CIO Says Software Saved Him $2 Million - Wall Street Journal (blog)
Land O’Lakes CIO Barry Libenson this year overhauled an internal software system for handling employee complaints and learned he could save $2 million dollars by training employees better. When...
Technology
Retail RFID: When and How, not Why or If - LP Portal
RFID Journal Live's 10th anniversary conference and exhibition was held in early April. I've attended them all and have...
RFID Captures Each Time Guests Throw in the Towel - RFID Journal
While working at several health clubs, Steven Molewyk had observed how much money they often lost due to discarded or...
Electric Imp promises to connect all consumer electronics wirelessly - Ubergizmo
In 1999, British technology pioneer Kevin Ashton co-founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT, a global standard system for RFID and other sensors....
Logistics & Manufacturing
DHL award logistics contract extension by BP - Analytiqa
DHL Supply Chain has won a £75.0 million contract extension from BP to manage warehousing and distribution for its UK...
NOL Group Reports US$254 Million First Quarter Net Loss - LogisticsWeek
NOL Group, the Singapore-based container shipping and logistics company, today reported a first quarter 2012 net loss of US$254 million...
Face the logistics carbon reduction challenge says FTA - HGV UK
Due to increased pressure from both government and customers, commercial vehicle operators must face the challenge of reducing carbon emissions...
Procurement
What Does AmazonSupply Mean to the Business Supply Chain? - Supply & Demand Chain Executive
With the debut of AmazonSupply, e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. finally made its move into the B2B marketplace on April 23....
Examining the EC strategy for e-procurement - Supply Management
The European Commission recently published its paper Strategy for e-procurement. The publication followed the recent proposed revised procurement directives, in...
UK Contract Awards: Airedale Chemicals Wins Contract for Supplying ... - Water World
Airedale Chemicals Co. Ltd., West Yorkshire, won a contract award from Thames Water Utilities Ltd. for the supply of orthophosphoric...
Transportation & Warehousing
Transportation costs hound Minnesota fresh produce industry - The Packer
The cost of fuel has added significantly to the price buyers and consumers pay for produce. While people may not have...
Consumerization trends hit IT service management - ITworld.com
Attendees at ServiceNow's Knowledge12 user conference here this week were abuzz about the promise of social collaboration and mobile enablement...
Logistics Solutions Provider, Source Consulting, Now Offers Transportation ... - Seattle Post Intelligencer
In addition to in-house transportation cost management services, Source Consulting now offers innovative, cloud-based transportation management systems, Intelliship and HALO....
