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The customers gleefully checking out 300-watt home theater systems and 42-inch plasma TV screens at the local Best Buy store probably aren't giving much thought to how that stuff got there. But for the record, they have Chas Scheiderer to thank.
It's Murphy's Law your equipment's going to break down just when you're in the midst of processing your biggest customer's order. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Many supply chain managers think their forecasting problems would be solved if they could only get good point-of-sale (POS) data. But it's not that simple.
The crackle of walkie-talkies and the boom of overhead DC loudspeakers may soon be a thing of the past. Who needs that stuff when you can give workers detailed instructions silently (and instantly) over wireless LANs?
In a crunch a space crunch, that is a high-rise automated storage and retrieval system can work wonders, freeing up acres of DC floor space. And you'd be astonished to learn just what today's systems can handle.
If the order is the heart of a company's success, the order management system is its circulatory system, delivering vital information across the enterprise.
In the heady days of the Internet boom, a number of venture capitalists invested in Internet logistics startups, while others chose more traditional logistics service providers.