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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 seen the cycle of interest and enthusiasm rise...
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 stolen towels. To address this problem, Molewyk founded...
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 gotten used to it, “we know what to...
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 convenience retail business. BP has achieved impressive cost...
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...
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. And being the huge fan that I am,...
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 which the Commission proposed the wholesale adoption of...
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. His vision – to create the “Internet of...
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 compared to a net loss of US$10 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 from transport. The Freight Transport Association’s Logistics Carbon Reduction...
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 within their service-management tools. But many organizations are...
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. Both SAAS (Software As A Service) solutions are...
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...
Alexandria District Tackles 3-Year ERP Project - T.H.E. Journal
Alexandria City Public Schools has gone public with a June 2011 decision to implement a new set of enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications at the same time the...
TrackIT launches Cloud-based asset tracking system - RFID News
TrackIT Solutions, an RFID solutions provider based in the Middle East, announced the launch of EnTrackAsset, a Web-enabled RFID tracking solution designed to streamline and automate corporate asset...
2012 Polk Inventory Efficiency Award Winners Honored at Global Automotive ... - Sacramento Bee
Polk honored The Timken Company and Aftermarket Auto Parts Alliance, Inc. with the 2012 Polk Inventory Efficiency Award during a ceremony held today at the Global Automotive Aftermarket...
Ask 1000 freight forwarders a question? Goodluck with that - The Loadstar
What to make of the World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index, snappily sub-titled: Connecting to Compete? First things first: it’s a dull read. The Loadstar has spent a few...
IMPERIAL's North East carriers goes the extra mile with "green" transport ... - Bizcommunity.com
NEC MD Johann Schreuder says that the new trailer design - which mimics the perfect aerodynamic lines of a natural teardrop - is expected to achieve fuel saving...
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....
CEVA Inaugurates First Control Tower In Turkey - LogisticsWeek
CEVA Logistics, a leading global supply chain management company, today announced the opening of a new Control Tower in Istanbul, an innovative information hub which enables the monitoring of...
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...
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 acid. No contract amount was specified (Contract Award...
Lean Supply Chain and Logistics Workshop Set for Lean Transportation Center - PR Web (press release)
The Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) and Third Party Logistics Provider (3PL) LeanCor Supply Chain Group will offer a two-day workshop, June 6-7, 2012, on how to apply lean...
Land O'Lakes to use NetSuite OneWorld - DM News
Land O'Lakes is using the enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution OneWorld, NetSuite announced May 16 at SuiteWorld 2012 in San Francisco, the business software provider's annual conference. Land O'Lakes,...
AFN Is Growing - LogisticsWeek
AFN, a rapidly expanding logistics and supply chain company, is actively hiring to fill more than 70 positions at its headquarters in Niles, just outside of Chicago. The...
Jaguar Land Rover to commit £1 billion in UK supply contracts - Rush Lane
In coming four years Jaguar Land Rover has planned an additional £1 billion which will be spent on UK supply contracts. The company had already initiated a £2...
Successful Lean & Green Conference at drupa - What They Think
Over 80 industry professionals attended the Lean & Green International Environmental Conference jointly organised at drupa by the World Print & Communication Forum (WPCF) and the PrintCity Alliance. The conference addressed...
Manhattan Associates Carving Niche In The Warehouse - Investor's Business Daily
Manhattan Associates (MANH) didn't write the book on warehouse management software, but it's added its own chapters. The company's year-over-year sales growth rate has risen each of the past...
Navizon's Cloud-based RTLS Service Tracks Wi-Fi Tags, Devices - RFID Journal
Navizon, a real-time location system (RTLS) technology provider based in Miami, Fla., has begun marketing a service to track the locations of Wi-Fi-based active RFID tags, or any...
Clugston Distribution celebrates 75 years in business - Shrewdd News (blog)
Clugston Distribution Services is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2012 - as part of the Clugston Group - by raising £75,000 for a number of charities. Employees from...
Global Packaging Survey 2012-2013: Market Trends, Buyer Spend and Procurement ... - SBWire (press release)
NaGlobal Packaging Survey 2012–2013: Market Trends, Buyer Spend and Procurement Strategies in the Global Packaging Industry is a new report that analyzes how global packaging industry companies’ procurement...
Packaging innovation to fight food waste: ILIP joins the save food initiative - Packaging Europe
The leading company in the food packaging sector has joined the initiative launched by Messe Dϋsseldorf and FAO, which is aimed at optimizing the supply chain and...
Get ready for Commerce-as-a-Service: NetSuite takes selling to the cloud - BetaNews
You've heard of Platform-as-a-Service, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service; maybe even Gaming-as-a-Service, too, from BetaNews' reporting on Tuesday. Get ready for the latest X-as-a-Service, thanks to a new Commerce-as-a-Service (CaaS) initiative...
Hilton, BSR Launch Sustainable Procurement Center - Environmental Leader
Hilton Worldwide and sustainability consultants BSR have launched a three-year initiative to help procurement professionals make more informed purchasing decisions based on the best available sustainability data and...
ERP software by SAP helps McLaren in F1 fight - Codestone
McLaren's bid to dominate Formula 1 in 2012 will be given a helping hand by leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provider SAP. The technology company has announced...
Supply Chain Management as a Service (SCMaaS) – Is it Real? - The 21st Century Supply Chain - Perspectives on Innovative (blog)
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...
Stem the losses. Take a look at your own supply chains - The Loadstar
There seem to have been fewer complaints from the airline industry about low rates recently. It’s almost as if everyone is so busy cost-cutting, they’ve forgotten about the...
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 ...
Toll sells part of its Automotive business in Australia - Analytiqa
Selling to establish a more sustainable and competitive business model Toll Global Logistics, a division of Toll Group, has announced a restructure that will combine its finished vehicle distribution...
EU: 18 DGs, EU Agencies and Institutions adopt eInvoicing using e-PRIOR - EEI Platform
18 Directorate-Generals of the European Commission, Executive Agencies and Institutions recently replaced the paper invoicing process by e-PRIOR. This is the first wave of the eInvoicing roll-out in...
SAP Sapphire: Intuitive SRM? Finally! SAP's User Interface Add-On for ... - Spend Matters
Have you ever wanted to buy a set of color toner cartridges and a drum unit and compared the number of clicks necessary to research, find, analyze and...
Double Digit Top-Line Growth at DecisionPoint Systems, Inc. - Analyst Blog - NASDAQ
On May 15, 2012, DecisionPoint Systems, Inc. ( DPSI ), the Foothill Ranch, California based enterprise mobility and RFID systems integrator, reported financial results for its fiscal...
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...
Accuride Corporation Holds Global Supplier Summit - Autochannel (press release)
EVANSVILLE, IN--May 15, 2012: Accuride Corporation , a leading supplier of components to the commercial vehicle industry, recently held its annual...
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...
The Consumerization of ERP Software - Software Advice (blog)
At this year's Microsoft Convergence event, I had the chance to sit down with Christian Pedersen, Microsoft's General Manager of Enterprise Applications and Services. I asked Pedersen about...
Oman Consolidates Logistics Across Military - DefenseNews.com (subscription)
Oman is consolidating all of its military logistics under a single umbrella, contracting with Miro Technologies of La Jolla, Calif., to deliver a single system for managing assets...
Business
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...
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...
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...
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....
