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There's high-density storage and there's narrow-aisle storage, but Schenker's gone one better: no-aisle storage. Its ultra-dense system stores pallets 24 deep and requires no human intervention.
You no longer have to be a Wal-Mart to afford supply chain execution (SCE) systems. Even small companies can trade in their old paper-based systems for these powerful hypernetworked tools.
High-tech forklifts come with sophisticated RFID readers. The ultra-high-tech models feature both readers and active RFID tags that tell manage ment where they are and where they've been.
Obtaining—and keeping—C-TPAT certification got harder last March, when the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection introduced new and stiffer standards, which apply to new applicants and current C-TPAT members alike.
Thomas Moore believes he's come up with something that will differentiate his organization from the competition and bring customers flocking to his doors. That something? Supply chain management.
Practically non-existent 25 years ago, Greece's logistics service provider industry received a boost from the elimination of customs taxes in 1993, which sent demand for warehouse space soaring. But the market for outsourced services still lags well behind the rest of the European Union.
With the country struggling with issues like war and terrorism, a record-setting deficit, and skyrocketing health care costs, transportation is not high on the national agenda. But that hasn't deterred leaders of the National Industrial Transportation League from undertaking what may prove a quixotic quest: the development of a national transportation policy.
To most everyone in the supply chain world, inventory management essentially comes down to choosing between a couple of unattractive alternatives: keeping a lot of inventory on hand to hide problems or reducing the inventory in order to expose and fix them.