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RSS supplyTesco.com vans cut fuel bills with telematics tech
News Tesco.com has struck a multimillion-pound deal with supply chain specialists Microlise to deliver a telematics system that provides real-time information on van routes, fuel consumption, engine revs, speed and odometer reading. [25 Jul 2008]
Take stock for tough times
Comment Reducing range complexity can improve all other parts of the business - from forecasting through to supply chain - and can unlock working capital. Retailers should be looking to balance their supply portfolio to achieve the best results. [24 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! profits dip - yet claims 'strong' Q2
News a deal under which top rival Google will supply search ads and as much as $800m in new revenue, a major reorganisation, and settling its differences with activist investor Carl Icahn. Yahoo! s earnings for its second quarter came in one cent lower... [23 Jul 2008]
The Visible Supply Chain: Ensuring End-to-End Optimization
White Paper Today's supply chain is the primary processing mechanism of every manufacturing company. Supply chain visibility is a tall order, but some of today's IT systems can meet it. This Ventana Research paper describes the characteristics of a visible... [23 Jul 2008]
Strategies to Run a Lean Supply Chain: How Principles of Lean Manufacturing Transfer Benefits to Operations
White Paper The blurring of the line between manufacturing and supply chain logistics provides the opportunity to move efficient manufacturing management concepts to supply chain management. This paper from Ventana Research describes lean manufacturing and how... [23 Jul 2008]
SSL International Is Forecasting Success With PeopleSoft 8 Demand Planning
White Paper SSL selected PeopleSoft's integrated, best-of-breed applications-including Supply Chain Management, Financials, and Human Resource Management-as its enterprise-wide solution and implemented Demand Planning first. [23 Jul 2008]
Record Mac sales give Apple stellar quarter
News The company said to expect $7.8bn in revenue and earnings per share of $1, while analysts were looking for $8.3bn in revenue and $1.24 in profits per share.iPhone sales were 717,000 during the quarter, which was in line with expectations.iPhone... [22 Jul 2008]
Major Food Retail Chain Choose Allied Telesis for Network Expansion in Italy
White Paper All the features that make it stand out, from its Quality of Service (QoS) and high-density Gigabit Ethernet ports to its non-blocking architecture and redundant power supply units, provide a competitive advantage. [18 Jul 2008]
Supply Chain Cost-Cutting Strategies: How Top Process Industry Performers Take Radically Different Actions
White Paper To avoid an average 7.96% increase in logistics costs (what the average company has experienced in the past two years), companies should follow the roadmap of Best in Class companies, which have been able to reduce costs or keep them flat via... [17 Jul 2008]
Understanding and Managing Supply Chain Risk
White Paper Explore new thinking on potential risk to global supply chains and how companies are adopting the statistical methods more commonly associated with finance and insurance. Identifying and profiling risk variables, quantifying risk, and using IT... [17 Jul 2008]
Talent Supply Chain Management: An Alarming Look at the Mismatch Between Talent Strategies, Processes, and Corporate Objectives
White Paper The nature of these trends seems to suggest that service firms are beginning to identify a need to treat the talent inventory with supply chain-like discipline, but are poorly prepared to optimize day-to-day operations of the talent inventory that... [17 Jul 2008]
Pricing and Revenue Optimization: A Manufacturing Perspective
White Paper Pricing and revenue optimization is the process of intelligently using a combination of market, customer, product, promotion, and supply-and-demand data to improve business margins by either increasing unit prices or increasing gross revenues. [17 Jul 2008]
Defra to ditch desktops and PDAs
News She said the department was also looking at sourcing machines through sustainable supply chains and achieving CO2 savings by measures such as turning off over-complicated screensavers and introducing automatic standby on more machines. [16 Jul 2008]
Take part in the silicon.com skills survey
News Nearly half of the 2007 survey respondents agreed or strongly agreed there is a skills crisis - and 45 per cent said there are IT jobs in their business they are unable to fill, and project management rated as the non-IT skill in shortest supply... [16 Jul 2008]
'Greedy' appliances to power one million homes
News But as fuel prices rise, commodities become scarcer, and families are feeling the pinch, it becomes ever more important for businesses to use resources more efficiently throughout the supply chain, those that don't will miss out on potential... [14 Jul 2008]
