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Top 20 supply chain management software suppliers By Bob Trebilcock, Editor at Large, 7/1/2008
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). More
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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Voice keeps Dunkin' Donuts rolling By Corinne Kator, Associate Editor - 07/01/2008
The Dunkin' Donuts Mid-Atlantic DC in Westampton, N.J., is designed to keep people and products moving efficiently: Receiving: Bags of doughnut mix, boxes of coffee cups and other Dunkin' Donuts products arrive at the DC's receiving docks 24 hours a day. Receivers use handheld RF devices to record “use by” dates and quantities, label the loads with a unique pallet label, and then sc...
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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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Voice technology: A slam dunk for Dunkin' Donuts By Corinne Kator, Associate Editor - 07/01/2008
The New Jersey Dunkin' Donuts DC switched from paper-based systems to voice technology and a warehouse management system (WMS) several years ago. When the new systems helped the DC rack up double-digit productivity gains, the facility's managers knew they had to share their success.
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Web-based tool will facilitate product recalls By Corinne Kator, Associate Editor - 06/30/2008
The Food Marketing Institute is planning to launch the Product Recall Collaboration Zone, a tool designed to standardize recall announcements.
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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
Company Briefings Bob Trebilcock, Editor at Large, Modern Materials Handling June 26, 2008 The view from VDC
A year ago, I attended a panel discussion on the state of the RFID industry at RFID J... More
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