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Automate and manage customer requirements By Bob Trebilcock, Editor at Large, 7/15/2008
Here are a few examples of how automated materials handling equipment and technology systems can work together to automate and manage some of the most common customer requirements. More
Best practices: 5 ways to meet customer requirements By Bob Trebilcock, Editor at Large - 07/01/2008
Whether it's customized picking, value-added services, or meeting tough service-level and order accuracy agreements, customer requirements are a fact of life. Most facilities cope by adding labor and chalking it up to the price of doing business. That works fine when the volumes are low. But as volumes rise, along with the number of customer requirements, those additional labor costs can be...
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Who’s your customer? By John M. Hill, principal, TranSystems | ESYNC - 07/16/2008
Factoring the diverse demands of customers into the profitability equation can be daunting, particularly when those demands do not fit your model for order fulfillment and delivery cost containment.
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How CDW customizes products By Bob Trebilcock, Editor at Large - 07/15/2008
CDW’s Western Distribution Center not only increased speed and productivity, it also efficiently meets the need for customized products.
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Car makers to cut costs with RTLS/RFID combo By Staff - 07/11/2008
Ubisense and Alien Technology combined RTLS and RFID in an automotive application to reduce the cost and error rate of mounting critical components in a car as it is assembled.
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Top 20 supply chain management software suppliers By Bob Trebilcock, Editor at Large - 07/01/2008
Even with a slowing economy, all of the SCM categories showed solid growth. Those categories include supply chain planning and network design (SCP) applications as well as supply chain execution solutions like warehouse management (WMS), manufacturing execution (MES) and transportation management (TMS).
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Where's the 5-cent RFID tag? By Staff - 07/01/2008
Remember when everyone predicted RFID in the supply chain would become a reality when the price of a smart label came down to a nickel? Why doesn't anyone talk about the 5-cent RFID tag today? “The 5-cent tag was relevant when people were talking about item-level tagging in the retail supply chain,” says Michael Liard of ABI Research
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Takeaways Tom Andel, Editor-In-Chief, Modern Materials Handling July 14, 2008 Warming and salmonella crises hyped?
Supply chains are being sullied by our dirty carbon footprints. That’s what the... More
Company Briefings Bob Trebilcock, Editor at Large, Modern Materials Handling July 3, 2008 NetSuite targets manufacturers
The first time I was contacted by NetSuite, about five years ago, they had an intrigu... More
On Your Worst Behavior Frank, Modern's resident expert on imperfection, July 1, 2008 Wall-E is one of us
Hollywood has done it again! Another big box office blockbuster features materials ha... More
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