Get ready for RFID in the cloud, says VDC's Drew Nathanson.

Intermec, Inc. has appointed Peter Fausel vice president of North America Sales. Reporting to Jim McDonnell, Intermec sr. vice president of Global Sales, Fausel will be responsible for driving continued growth and improving the consistency, transparency and predictability of doing business with Intermec.

The Voice Picking Blog will feature regular posts on emerging technology for voice directed picking; trends and insights regarding voice picking system selection, implementation, and integration; and commentary on timely topics and industry news.

Vocollect says a fundamental shift is underway in distribution processes as we move from paper to RF to the voice-enabled warehouse.

While the effects of the global recession took its toll on enterprise software markets to a large degree in the form of a double-digit revenue reduction, it does not appear that damage to the Transportation Management System (TMS) market was nearly as severe, according to research from ARC Advisory Group.

Conventional wisdom is that most companies today, particularly the larger ones, have adopted the practices associated with sound supply chain management. But that may not always be the case. New research reveals a clear gap between adopters and the laggards—or the “sophisticated” and “less sophisticated” practitioners. This article explains what differentiates the two groups on key dimensions, and tells what you can do enhance your level of sophistication.

Business prospects are improving. However, companies are still under terrific pressure to hold down costs. Many have done an admirable job, but continue to be daunted by one of our time’s most-vexing cost-management challenges: wildly fluctuating oil prices.

Although sales and operations planning (S&OP) has been practiced for several decades now, many companies still struggle to succeed with their programs. A big part of the problem is that the requisite building blocks to success are either faulty or lacking. The five success principles described here can get an S&OP program on the right track and delivering the kind of results expected.

A new market data report released by ABI Research (http://www.abiresearch.com)) predicts the overall RFID market to reach $5.35 billion

Experts agree: The materials handling industry may bump along the bottom a little longer, but optimism is slowly replacing pessimism