Supply Chain Management News


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 There are many challenges in effectively managing a Supply Chain. Management is under constant pressure to lower costs and to increase service levels. The best way to do this is to keep up with the latest Supply Chain advances.
  Do you want to keep up with the latest Supply Chain Stories? We are working on a website that will give links to various Supply Chain News stories. News stories will cover Supply Chain Management, Software, Logistics & Processes.
 If you have any Supply Chain news stories that you would like published, please email them to us.
 Updates will be posted periodically.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SupplyChainManagementNews.com - links to Supply Chain Management news stories from around the world.

There a quite a few Supply Chain websites on the internet. This website will eventually carry updated news stories that are Supply Chain related. I will attempt to do this via a direct news feed. Unfortunately, it's not currently working. In the mean time, if you have a supply chain related story or link, please email it to me. I will post it, free of charge, on this website.

 example of older news stories:

8/31/06: DHL Exel Supply Chain Gets Agile with SOA: AMR Research
A Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) case study.
"SOA will still fundamentally change the way companies need to develop, deploy, and manage that software..."

8/31/06: Dell upgrades local Supply Chain: ferret.com.au
An article about Dell Computers upgrading their Supply Chain in Australia

8/31/06: Meet your new host: CIO.com
"Supply chain software has been considered too risky and important to be hosted by outsiders. That is, until you consider the risks and expense of installing and supporting it yourself...."

8/30/06: How to Solve Supply Chain Related Issues: webpronews.com
Article about using RFID to reduce inefficiencies.

8/30/06: Fashion retailer Schild outsources it's Supply Chain. just-style.com
Swiss fashion retailer Schild has outsourced its entire supply-chain management to....

8/29/06: Navigating the Global Supply Chain : RILA
A Chart that shows from factory to shelf. Make sure you place your curser above each icon.
Here's the article that goes along with it.

8/28/06: The Quest for Supply Chain Riches: Redmond Channel Partner
"Microsoft's share of the supply chain market may be tiny now, but the company sees massive promise on the horizon"...

8/28/06: Business intelligence set to be the next big supply chain enabler – again? MC Solutions

8/27/06: A Unified Supply Chain: Forbes.com
Forbes interview with Sue Welch, CEO of TradeStone Software, of Boston, who is "a veteran of the global supply-chain business".

8/27/06: Supply chain eggs need more than one basket: ShanghaiDaily.com.
"MULTINATIONAL corporations have been changing their strategies to manage the globalization process since the beginning of last century"....

8/26/06: RFID: Maturing at a Natural Pace in the Supply Chain: RFID Update
Two years ago, Wal-Mart's RFID mandate sent industry watchers into a frenzy. The buzz surrounding RFID was similar to the enthusiasm elicited by a new fashion trend or a hot holiday toy...

8/26/06: The Case for Supply Chain Audits :Supply & Demand Chain Executive
A Call to Action - Quantify vulnerabilities, prescribe options to mitigate risks; how to audit, analyze and deal with supply chain vulnerability...

8/26/06: Legacy replacements drive supply chain software market : Computer Weekly.com
Worldwide supply chain management software revenues will reach $2.5bn (£1.3bn) in manufacturing industry alone by 2010, according to a new study by industry analyst Datamonitor...

8/25/06: Manufacturing ups investment in SCM software: Biz Community.com

LONDON: According to independent market analyst Datamonitor research "Streamlining Production", manufacturers in batch, process and discrete industries are turning to technology such as SCM (supply chain management) to support lean production strategies with increasing vigour...

8/25/06: Supply Chain Majors get the Retail Edge: Business Standard.
The imminent high-voltage entry of Reliance Industries and the AV Birla group into the retail sector has accentuated the need for better supply chain management (SCM) solutions....

8/24/06: Aligning Supply Chain and the Business: Supply Chain Digest 
Clearly, one of the increasingly common themes in supply chain in the last 2-3 years has been better alignment between the supply chain function and the corporation....

8/24/06: Dell Cites Supply Chain Hiccups in Disappointing Financial Results: Supply Chain Digest         

"Latest financial miss blamed in part on overestimating demand, procurement problems; can even robust S&OP processes overcome the pressure to forecast to goal? Supply-demand matching is tough even for Dell..."

 

8/24/06: Supply Chain Specialty 14th in Nation: University of Arkansas
The U.S. News & World Report's annual guide, America's Best Colleges 2007, has rated the supply chain management and logistics specialty in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas in a tie for 14th place...

 


Archived Supply Chain Management News Stories

September 2006

August 2006