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This Demand Signal Is Crystal Clear: Less Push, More Pull

October 1, 2004

Jean V. Murphy, Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies

The pressure is on for companies to employ demand-driven strategies - technologies and processes that can "sense" and communicate real-time demand across customers, suppliers and employees.

It's Mid-Year Supply-Chain and Logistics Checkup Time. Let's See How You're Doing.

July 1, 2004

Scott Elliff, Capital Consulting & Management Inc.

MIT Professor Sees Promise In Supply-Chain Modeling

May 1, 2004

Jean V. Murphy- Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies

A conversation with Jeremy Shapiro, professor of operations research and management emeritus in the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology.

Seeing Is Managing:Maintaining Visibility in the Supply Chain

May 1, 2004

Here's what the best companies are doing, in making sure they retain visibility over products and information in the chain. • Third in the Best Practices series.

Loading Dock Visibility Gives Retailers View of Inventory at All Times

April 1, 2004

Ira Breskin

A real-time view into inbound shipments helps retailers avoid stock-outs and other nightmares at a critical juncture - the point of sale.

Managing Merchandise 'Flows' Straight to the Corporate Top Line

December 1, 2003

Jim Brownell, Escalate

Now Playing: MGM's Home Video VMI Program

October 1, 2003

Russell W. Goodman, Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies

Hollywood studios know that box-office receipts are greatest in the first weeks of a film's release, and the same is true for their video sales divisions. MGM Home Entertainment's VMI initiative ensure that its retailers are stocked (and replenished) with the latest videos.

Special Issue: Collaborative Commerce - Forecasting Tool Lowers Coke Bottler's Inventory

November 1, 2002

Jean V. Murphy

Enabling its field sales managers to collaborate on forecasts allowed Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated to slash inventories in half while absorbing 150 new products.

IKEA let's Verticalnet assemble its private exchange

May 1, 2002

Thomas A. Foster, Editor-in-Chief

True Value Battles Adversity With Supply-chain Efficiency

December 1, 2001

Serving the nation's largest cooperative of independent hardware stores, struggling True Value aims to secure member loyalty through a world-class supply chain.