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Simon says, "Stick RFID tags on your products," and America's biggest consumer products companies promptly fall in line? That's precisely what happened when Simon (Langford) issued Wal-Mart's now famous RFID mandate. So what will Wal- Mart want next?
In the "here today, obsolete tomorrow" world of electronics, no supply chain partner wants to get stuck with mountains of parts for yesterday's hot-selling cell phone or PC. But running a lean operation doesn't have to mean pushing your inventory problems onto someone else. Solectron found a better way.
Move over, RFID. A feisty Israeli company wants to make an information-rich little symbol called the Visidot America's identification technology of choice.
Deregulators may have won the election, but that doesn't mean Washington isn't cooking up lots of new rules that will have a direct effect on your business.
The reason there wasn't an awful lot of merchandise left over after the holiday shopping blitz was that the amount of goods stocked by the stores pretty evenly matched what consumers wanted to buy.
Rubbing shoulders with members of a middlemen's trade group may seem an unlikely way to get an insider's view of the political process, but the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, or NAW, isn't just any trade association.
As a long-time political junkie, i was delighted to receive an invitation to the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors? annual executive summit in Washington, D.C., this year.