Supply chain planning - Articles - Page 47

From the S.F. Roundtable, Another Peek Into the Future

November 24, 2014

The future of supply-chain management doesn't rest within a crystal ball or psychic's parlor. It can be found each fall, at a dinner and panel hosted by the San Francisco Roundtable of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals.

SAP Offers BILT Mobile App With Voice-Guided Instructions

November 21, 2014

SAP AG

SAP AG has made generally available the BILT mobile app, which provides interactive, 3D, voice-guided assembly, repair and instructions in an application for iOS and Android tablets.

Intelligent Transportation Planning

November 21, 2014

SupplyChainBrain

The goal of intelligent transportation planning is to enable decisions based on what is happening across the entire supply chain, from upstream demand to downstream constraints, in order to create both value and resiliency, says Fabrizio Brasca, vice president of solutions strategy at JDA Software.

Visual Mapping of Supply Chain Risks Improves Response

November 21, 2014

SupplyChainBrain

Having a visual map that overlays a company's key facilities, suppliers and lanes with actual or potential risks helps enable faster reaction to supply chain disruptions, says Chris Kushmaul, director of supply chain solutions at IDV Solutions.

What Companies Get Wrong About Cyber Risk

November 21, 2014

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Face it: There's no such thing as a supply-chain information-technology system that's completely invulnerable to cyber attack.

Making the Most of Retail Product Liquidation

November 20, 2014

SupplyChainBrain

Retailers are moving away from liquidating outdated inventory for a set price of pennies on the dollar, says Jeremy Witte, COO of Genco Marketplace. Instead they are looking to partners to maximize liquidation returns through a network of secondary merchants.

RFID: On the Rise Again

November 20, 2014

SupplyChainBrain

The focus of RFID in the supply chain has shifted from case tagging to item tagging, says Ann Grackin, CEO of ChainLink Research. Grackin explains why this is so and details other areas of the supply chain where RFID is being embraced.

Redefining Supply Chain Management for Today's Reality

November 20, 2014

SupplyChainBrain

Managing the multiple relationships in today's supply chains requires a new level of cross-functional business processes, says Doug Lambert, director of the Global Supply Chain Forum at Ohio State. He identifies eight critical processes and explains methods for implementing them.

Barriers to Implementing Supply Chain Innovation

November 18, 2014

SupplyChainBrain

The biggest barrier to innovation in global supply chains is the inability of companies to identify and then quickly react to opportunities, says Corey Rhodes, vice president-Americas at Amber Road. He discusses the reasons behind these shortcomings and steps to remedy them.

New Tenets of Transportation Revealed in Annual Study

November 18, 2014

SupplyChainBrain

Presidents Tommy Barnes and Joel Clum of Con-way Multimodal and Carrier Direct, corporate partners with the University of Tennessee and Georgia Southern in this year's Study of Trends and Issues in Transportation and Logistics, discuss new transportation tenets distilled from survey responses.