inventory in comment and analysis
Minority Report: The 3G iPhone has landed
Comment Jobs said six million iPhones had already been sold and although it now faces a month with low inventory until 11 July, the demand for iPhone remains high. Some Apple watchers got themselves overexcited in the run-up to this week's announcements. [13 Jun 2008]
Minority Report: What's in store for the iPhone?
Comment Just enough time between Jobs announcing the 3G iPhone during the 9 June keynote and the 15 June AT&T-enforced holiday hiatus to flood the channels with inventory. Whether it's a rather deft bit of marketing by Apple to remove devices from the... [23 May 2008]
How to stop "runaway" ERP projects
Comment That's where it starts to break down because many times companies identify themselves by some unique business processes or some unique way they do pricing or purchasing or manage their inventory. Big complicated and expensive enterprise resource... [01 Oct 2007]
Supply chains go on-demand
Comment And the parts that make up our cars are timed to arrive in the factory on the day of assembly, minimising excess inventory that has to be stored and managed, keeping manufacturing costs as low as possible. [04 Apr 2007]
Information overload
Comment The company provides online CRM, shipping, inventory management and financial services, among others. This means no rushing around to see if you have the inventory to hand when someone calls up with a large order, for example. [30 Mar 2007]
Learn to love your network again
Comment It's a bold claim and obviously monthly auditing is only possible once inventory and asset management are up to date and the process has been streamlined to ensure the only changes being measured are those which have occurred during the previous... [26 Mar 2007]
Go real-time with your data
Comment These are areas where users can access and act upon timely and accurate information, in a way that helps them to manage day-to-day business activities which impact operational efficiency such as inventory control. [15 Mar 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: An overlooked way to save money
Comment MFPs offer network printing, copying, faxing and scanning in a single device, reducing inventory and operating costs. With security, software licences and wireless rollouts taking up IT chiefs' time, it may be easy to overlook a more mundane area... [13 Jul 2006]
How to avoid an ERP disaster
Comment Examples include MFI, which was thrown £46m into the red as a result of technical problems with the rollout of a SAP-based supply chain system, which led to inventory shortages and incomplete orders being sent out, and more recently chocolate... [12 Jul 2006]
Beating software piracy is easier than you think
Comment The ISO 19770-1 standard was ratified in May and includes guidance on how to develop a software inventory, assess suppliers' service-level agreements (SLAs) and manage assets throughout their lifecycle. [21 Jun 2006]
Word For Word: Google Analyst Day
Comment This gives them a way to sell inventory that they couldn't sell before. The fourth area is more inventory. The event, its second annual Analyst Day, was in the spotlight because of comments made by the company's CFO earlier this week that resulted... [03 Mar 2006]
Inside Amazon.co.uk: More than just a boy wizard
Comment Since last Christmas, however, the company has opened second and third distribution centres, both north of the border on the outskirts of Edinburgh and Glasgow, showing the rate at which the company is growing in terms of orders and inventory. [31 Aug 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Are we heading towards a new dark age?
Comment In short, much of our past inventory of innovation and invention has been crude compared to what we see today. Written from the BA lounge with free Wi-Fi, Miami Airport, Florida I have just picked up on a series of articles and projections that... [14 Jul 2005]
Leader: Is the iPod love affair over?
Leader Reports from the US claim that Apple is struggling to shift its new Shuffle range and is sitting on a significant amount of inventory. The first signs have started to emerge this week that Apple's super-cool must-have iPod music players are, well... [20 Jun 2005]
Devil's Advocate: The e-auction game
Comment Specifically, build to order is the only way to avoid the huge costs of redundant inventory. A lot has been made of the public sector making big savings on procurement by purchasing items such as PCs through electronic auctions. [26 Apr 2005]
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