Getting products to market faster and cheaper on a global scale is the main goal of supply chain management. MH&L covers the latest supply chain trends and technologies companies are using to compete and win in the global marketplace.
In this special eBook, we look at the typical salaries for supply chain professionals in various roles, the unique challenges they face in their jobs, and how they deal with them.
News Wal-Mart sells its suppliers on RFID Speculation that retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (www.walmart.com) would slow down its plans to implement radio frequency identification (RFID) tags because of adverse publicity were clearly wrong...
News After the honeymoon When two or more companies combine, how do logistics professionals discern best practices and implement them across the new organization? Experience certainly helps. When $1.3 billion food company Del Monte Foods Co...
The move is an aggressive pricing strategy aimed at gaining market share, especially in its critical domestic German market. The cargo carrier said the pricing offensive would be combined with "wide-ranging measures to sharpen the focus on the...
Cross-company collaboration. Companies are starting to talk about sharing assets in the supply chain outside of manufacturing. For example, look at railcar fleets. The average utilization of hopper cars and tanker cars in the chemical industry is...
China, Korea and other Asian locations are now a major source for manufacturing - and particularly for the high tech/electronics industry. Here's a look at some of the offering now available...
Distribution Sweet dreams of EDI David’s Cookies has found sweet success through its association with Home Shopping Network (HSN). “We’re not a typical retail company,” explains Oliver Tress, the cookie company’s sales and marketing...
News Heard & overheard Rebecca Jasper, president of the consulting firm JASPERsolutions (www.jaspersolutions.net), has identified 10 fallacies of supply chain management — misconceptions about SCM that far too many people accept as gospel...
Site Selector Get the order there, now It’s part of Walgreens’ corporate lore that when founder Charles R. Walgreen, Sr. took a telephone order from a customer in his South Side Chicago neighborhood, he’d repeat the customer’s name, address...
Distribution Return to Sender Wiith product returns costing U.S. suppliers more than $100 billion each year, there’s small wonder shippers are increasingly looking for ways to gain greater control of the process. No industry segment...
News Horrors of service Transportation professionals are finding little comfort in the new hours of service (HOS) regulations issued earlier this year by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (www.fmcsa.dot.gov). On one hand...
