Supply chain management in all industries is being asked to reduce costs and the expenditure involved in storing products is constantly under review. This week I read an interesting paper ... Read More

Last month in China, Wal-Mart told a group of over a 1000 vendors and government officials of their plans for a more environmentally and socially responsible global supply chain. The ... Read More

Another company has announced issues with the implementation of their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. In a letter to its shareholders, Overstock.com reported problems with the implementation of Oracle’s ERP ... Read More

Shipping decisions suddenly became easier this week as DHL announced the end of their domestic US parcel operations at the end of January 2009. Shipping departments across the nation were ... Read More

As corporations grapple with understanding how Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) can reduce technology costs in their supply chain, the company with probably the most complex supply chain in the world has taken ... Read More

Transportation companies are beginning to feel the downturn in the economy based on the latest survey from Longbow Research. A September survey of transportation professionals indicated a reduction in the ... Read More

A significant percentage of items you find in your local supermarket are imported; lamb from New Zealand, bananas from Ecuador, shrimp from Thailand, etc. The transportation of these items from ... Read More

In the latest Warehousing and Transportation update from the Aberdeen Group I was surprised to read that in a survey nearly 60% of respondents were likely to implement new warehouse ... Read More

This week my inbox has seen an unusual amount of e-mails with the words green collar in the title. The use of the term green collar has become extremely popular ... Read More