Supply-chain management is critical to the way most small businesses operate. Keep too much inventory on hand, and you could be driven out of business for tying up too much cash in products you fail to sell. Keep too little, and you could doom your business because you can't supply your own customers with product.
And if you produce for a large retailer, it'll demand you have a supply-chain management system so it can create its own forecasts.
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 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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
The worldwide supply chain management (SCM) software market totaled $7.7 billion in 2011, a 12.3 percent increase from ...
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...
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...
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, 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 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 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...
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...
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 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 Inc. said Thursday it has promoted Robert Wahl to managing director of...
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...
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 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...
RFID Journal Live's 10th anniversary conference and exhibition was held in early April. I've attended them all and have...
While working at several health clubs, Steven Molewyk had observed how much money they often lost due to discarded or...
In 1999, British technology pioneer Kevin Ashton co-founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT, a global standard system for RFID and other sensors....
DHL Supply Chain has won a £75.0 million contract extension from BP to manage warehousing and distribution for its UK...
NOL Group, the Singapore-based container shipping and logistics company, today reported a first quarter 2012 net loss of US$254 million...
Due to increased pressure from both government and customers, commercial vehicle operators must face the challenge of reducing carbon emissions...
With the debut of AmazonSupply, e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. finally made its move into the B2B marketplace on April 23....
The European Commission recently published its paper Strategy for e-procurement. The publication followed the recent proposed revised procurement directives, in...
Airedale Chemicals Co. Ltd., West Yorkshire, won a contract award from Thames Water Utilities Ltd. for the supply of orthophosphoric...
The cost of fuel has added significantly to the price buyers and consumers pay for produce. While people may not have...
Attendees at ServiceNow's Knowledge12 user conference here this week were abuzz about the promise of social collaboration and mobile enablement...
In addition to in-house transportation cost management services, Source Consulting now offers innovative, cloud-based transportation management systems, Intelliship and HALO....
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