Recent Warehousing and Storage Business White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studi...
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How to Choose the Best Data Capture Technology
In 1974 when Intermec invented Code 39, data capture technology was pretty simple: Print out a linear bar-code label and read it with a batch laser scanner. As bar codes became commonplace, companies realized the advantage of carrying more data, leading to new symbologies such as PDF417 and matrix codes that convey far more information, and now radio frequency identification (RFID), which can serve as a portable, dynamic database attached to a pallet, case, or single item.
Do You Know Where Your Assets Are? Maximizing ROI with RFID Asset Management
Companies today are making millions of dollars' worth of decisions based on data that is only about 70% accurate. They may have an existing procedure for how assets move through their internal or external supply chains. But when they get an opportunity to look at actual data about that process, it usually doesn't match their perceptions. RFID technology can provide visibility into that unknown, and it can do this automatically.
Fulfilling the promise: The right product, at the right time
Overcome the challenges of retail inventory management. Watch this IBM ForwardView webshow to learn about affordable tools that enable more precise, more responsive assortment planning and category management. See how they can help you prevent unsold products and out-of-stock merchandise, so you can deliver better customer service. This webshow was featured in ForwardView, the premier IBM eMagazine that provides growing businesses with the latest news and trends at the nexus of business and IT. It's full of thought leadership and marketplace insight applied to real business problems.
Manage Your Operations for Greater Profitability with Retail Chain Manager fo...
Midsize retailers face the same inventory planning and control challenges as their larger competitors, though they typically do so with far fewer resources and less-developed technology infrastructures. Midsize retailers also have a harder time understanding customer buying and behavior trends, and recruiting and retaining skilled and desirable employees. To learn about a solution that's helping midsized retailers meet these challenges and more, download this white paper on Microsoft Dynamics AX.
Smarter Supply Chain Utilization for the Retailer
This paper introduces various supply chain concepts and explains their importance. It describes initiatives being undertaken by the largest retailers and reviews what small and mid-size firms need to do to compete. Very few small and mid-size retailers can compete with companies like Wal-Mart on price. However, while some go to the wall, many smaller retailers prosper alongside Wal-Mart exploiting the traffic that they generate and managing their own supply chains and customer propositions well. Download this white paper to learn more.
Receiving Report
Use this template to document what you received, when you received it, and the condition of goods shipped to you from vendors. This template is primarily designed to be filled in manually. You may fill in heading data such as the name and address of the vendor, your PO number, and so forth, at the time a PO is cut and file a copy of the partially completed template in a tickler file for transmission to the receiving department when the shipment is due.
Receipt For Goods
Use this template to record goods shipped to you by vendors. Any problems with or damage to the shipment should be recorded on this template so that adjustments or credits can be documented when the invoice arrives. This template is designed to be completed by hand. Shaded cells are data entry areas.
Achieving Sourcing Excellence: A Three-Year Plan for Success
Learn how you can respond to challenging market conditions and add value to your organization by attaining sourcing excellence. Explore the stages of development, and see how you can create a three-year plan to achieve sourcing excellence.
Charting a new course: The retail merchandising-supply network
A new model for merchandising and supply chain management is emerging; it is about to transform the way in which retailers do business and deliver the customer experience. Many retailers see the supply chain simply as a means of moving goods from one place to another. In fact, a fully integrated merchandising-supply network can help companies achieve greater, sustainable growth by becoming more innovative and differentiating themselves in the marketplace.
Location Modeling In Logistics; A Decision Maker Defined Approach
The location of factories and warehouses has always been considered an important part of many disciplines (geography, regional science, transport studies, operations management, industrial economics and, nowadays, logistics. Logistics texts usually treat this as a transshipment problem or transportation problem where there are fixed locations of supplies and customers and it is desired to optimally locate a facility to minimize some combination of production and transport costs between the origins and destinations. This paper uses a more general heuristic framework of distance minimization combined with a doubly constrained gravity model. The model developed is spreadsheet based and allows the user to set customer service level requirements to determine optimal locations.
Internal Markets For Supply Chain Capacity Allocation
This paper explores the possibility of solving supply chain capacity allocation problems using internal markets among employees of the same company. Unlike earlier forms of transfer pricing, IT now makes it easier for such markets to involve many employees, fine-grained transactions, and frequently varying prices. The paper develops a formal mode of such markets, proves their optimality in a baseline condition, and then analyzes various potential market problems and solutions. Interestingly, these proposed solutions are not possible in a conventional market because they rely on the firm's ability to pay mark participants based on factors other than just the profitability of their market transactions.
Facility Location In Supply Chain Design
In this paper we outline the importance of facility location decisions in supply chain design. We begin with a review of classical models including the traditional fixed charge facility location problem. We then summarize more recent research aimed at expanding the context of facility location decisions to incorporate additional features of a supply chain including Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) vehicle routing, inventory management, robustness, and reliability.
Supply Chain Execution Technology
In the past two years, the markets for supply chain execution software applications such as warehouse management has been roiled by the increasingly aggressive efforts of ERP providers, especially SAP and Oracle, into application areas that have been traditionally dominated by "Best-of breed" providers. This paper explains eight-step approach that offers a solid model for making software decision. If followed, it will enable companies to make an improved evaluations between Enterprise Planning Resource (ERP) and best-of-breed alternatives by including a cross-functional perspective, focusing on true business objectives and actual ROI and TCI, using a more objective, fast-based approach, and having a bias towards vendors that have proven proof points of the capabilities and results you need.
Preparing Today For Your RFID Future
Before implementing a Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) system, companies are wise to take the time to undertake three important steps: Determine what you want to accomplish; investigate the components that will be needed; and Research vendors and costs (not only the investment in capital equipment, but also the changes being made to your processes and their impact). Whether you are contemplating implementing RFID technology in the next few months or few years - now is the time to begin assessing the changes you will need to make throughout your organization. Your future success of RFID will hinge upon how well you prepare now. This white paper presents four steps you can take to be RFID.
Pre Pack Optimization: Increasing Supply Chain Efficiency
Pre packing refers to packing of individual Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) of merchandise into bigger cases for easier handling in the supply chain. The pre packs consist of varying quantities of different SKUs clubbed together to form the lowest level of packaging hierarchy and are designed to flow through from the vendor to the retail stores. Handling of these larger pre packs rather than individual SKUs proves to be cheaper and faster at all touch points in the vendor to retail store supply chain. We have developed an approach to pre pack optimization that balances the trade-offs at different points in the supply chain using data intensive models.

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