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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.
Employers have become much more sophisticated about how they work with their labor forces to improve productivity. But the pressure to step up productivity will only increase in the not-too-distant future, when we aging baby boomers begin to retire and the next, smaller wave of workers takes over.
With millions of muggles waiting for the latest Harry Potter volume to hit the bookstores (or their doorsteps), the people charged with its distribution relied not on magic, but on careful planning and painstaking execution.
For Chiquita Brands, moving 60 million boxes of pineapples and bananas from Central America to U.S. grocers each year is the easy part. The challenge is making sure its refrigerated ships and containers don't return without a payload.