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Taken alone, transportation management systems can do a lot to make shipping more efficient. But combine them with other software in a supply chain execution system and the software becomes truly formidable.
Today's notoriously unforgiving consumers don't care why a product isn't available this minute. They'll just go elsewhere. Two industry giants have come up with breakthrough strategies to keep that from happening.
Though IT spending in general remains in the doldrums, spending on logistics management software continues to show robust growth, according to a recent study by ARC Advisory Group.
U.S. Customs has showed it was serious about enforcing new rules requiring 24 hours' notice before goods bound for the United States were loaded aboard ships in foreign ports.
Constant vibration from forklift trucks and the need to fit more product in a limited space often challenge the integrity of racks and shelving in distribution centers.
According to recent research by the packaging machinery manufacturers' trade association, quick changeover capabilities, flexibility and fast speeds are the top three machine attributes most often requested by companies.
A newly independent International Foodservice Distributors Association plans to focus its efforts on federal government relations, industry relations and education, research, and standards and bar coding in the foodservice channel.
Only days after the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced that 95 percent of its voting members had voted to authorize a strike, the union and the nation's largest unionized motor carriers averted the threatened stoppage and agreed on a new five-year contract.
Symbol Technologies Inc. has countersued a major competitor in the data capture industry, claiming Hand Held Products Inc. infringed on 12 Symbol patents.
In its first report of the year, the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute's Business Conditions Index contains some good news for those anxiously watching the economy.
Vocollect, a Pittsburgh-based provider of voice-directed distribution systems, achieved record sales in 2002, more than doubling its revenues over the previous year.
Supply chain execution software provider Provia has reported 80 client installations over the past 12 months, resulting in one of the company's most profitable years ever.
Distribution professionals are invited to attend one of 25 free Distribution Technology Seminars, sponsored by Prophet 21 and held throughout the United States and Canada this spring.
Efficient distribution centers are clean and well-ordered, and they have written standard operating procedures that reflect the DC's actual operation, according to ARC Advisory Group.
Many industry observers see auto ID as the breakthrough technology to watch the one that will forever change the way in which our supply chains operate.
The evolution of distribution logistics is such that we no longer take shipments that are late or incomplete as part of the ordinary course of business.