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Red Prairie Routing Portal from RedPrairie Corp. is a Web-based solution for coordinating inbound shipments and reverse logistics. The software enables personnel throughout an enterprise to manage transport delivery requests […]

JDA Software Group has released JDA Fleet Management 7.4.1 a transportation and logistics management software application powered by Manugistics. The solution is designed to provide integrated enterprise transportation planning, asset […]

RapidResponse for Demand Management service from Kinaxis Inc. provides visibility across fulfillment networks. It is designed to enable demand management and fulfillment staff to more effectively respond to unexpected demand […]

Flow Management from Manhattan Associates is a cross-suite solution that enables companies to synchronize all of product distribution, from forecasting and inventory planning to allocation and distribution. Flow Management is […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The latest release of SAP Supply Chain Management from SAP includes enhanced functionality for supplier collaborationwhich enables suppliers to create Web-based invoices. Enhanced capabilities for outsourced manufacturing is […]

When it comes to implementing supply chain management (SCM) solutions, most companies to date have adopted a patchwork approach, using numerous solutions from a variety of software vendors. Thanks to […]

ProLogis, a global developer and manager of distribution facilities, has launched a sustainability initiative requiring all of its new development in the United States to comply with environmental standards developed […]

Manufacturing lost 28,000 jobs in January 2008 and 269,000 jobs over the previous 12 months, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). David Huether, chief economist for the […]

With 2008 being an election year, you're going to be hearing a lot about what the various political office-seekers will "do for you" if you'll vote them into office. Depending […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To achieve a culture of continuous improvement sometimes requires getting past seemingly insurmountable hurdles. Blue Bird North Georgia, a manufacturer of school buses, experienced its defining moment when […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Shortly after acquiring an existing airbag initiator facility in Tremonton, Utah, in 2001, automotive supplier Autoliv launched a kaizen suggestion program designed to encourage continuous improvement ideas from […]

I've always felt that politicians really don't understand those of us who live and work I outside of the Beltway, and now I realize exactly why that is. It turns […]

All politics is local, which probably explains why the national pundits didn't have much punditry to offer following the recent odd-year elections. Even though we live in a world of […]

I've got a whole stack of books, research studies and analyst reports here on my desk, each one analyzing the emergence of China as an economic powerhouse, and purporting to […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A pair of aerospace giants--Boeing and Honeywell Aerospace--are teaming up on a supply chain project aimed at significantly reducing airlines' maintenance costs by providing expendable parts. As part […]

As chairman and CEO of Cleveland-based Eaton Corp., Alexander M. (Sandy) Cutler oversees a $12.4 billion industrial manufacturer subject to the whims of a fickle buying public. Thanks to its […]

MANUFACTURERS WHO rely on the railroads for relatively inexpensive freight transportation should prepare themselves for an expected increase of 5.4% in rates in 2008, according to the Freight Pulse survey […]

Will environmental issues force supply chain managers to think the unthinkable? That topic was debated at a recent conference hosted by consulting firm SCALA Logistics Consulting. For instance, John Perry, […]

1. When maintaining internal capabilities is challenged, and limited only to the ability to find and retain personnel with expertise on process, engineering and technology. 2. When internal resources, no […]

A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO, WHEN I WAS YOUNG enough in my career that I still thought it was possible to know it all, I met somebody who probably did […]

There's something deeply ingrained in our human nature that makes us want to know where the next "hot spot" is, and to make that discovery before everybody else. That curiosity […]

The idea behind third-party logistics providers (3PLs) is as basic as wanting to have somebody else do the work for you. Rather than employing and managing a staff of transportation […]

VISION WITHOUT EXECUTION IS A HALLUCINATION." Albert Einstein probably didn't have supply chain management in mind when he uttered those words, but no matter--they still serve as an apt metaphor […]

The University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business will begin offering a Master of Supply Chain Management (MSCM) program beginning January 2008. The admission deadline for the inaugural […]

There's a simple premise behind our annual profile of the country's biggest and best manufacturers--in fact, it's so simple an idea that it's one of the very first things we […]

UPS delivery intercept is a new automated service that allows customers to intercept and reroute packages before they're delivered. Using this web-enabled service, a customer would use a UPS package […]

A transportation management system (TMS) is a software program that automates a company's shipping process, from carrier selection to routing and scheduling. TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY PRIORITIES % OF respondents Advanced […]

Global logistics provider DHL has teamed up with technology giants IBM Corp., Intel Corp. and SAP to establish the DHL Innovation Center in Germany, headquarters of DHL parent Deutsche Post […]

Every year, U.S. companies spend more than $600 billion on transportation. Not included in that amount is another $1 billion, more or less, that companies are spending on transportation management […]

OUR COVER STORY THIS MONTH LOOKS AT THE dirty little secret of globalization--the likelihood that somebody in another part of the world is getting rich off of your product, and […]

1. Hewlett-Packard 2. Nokia 3. Dell 4. Samsung 5. Sony 6. Motorola 7. Siemens 8. Toshiba 9. LG 10. Apple Source: Gartner […]

THE TOP 10 HIGH-TECH MANUFACTURERS consumed roughly one-third of all semiconductor chips in 2006, accounting for $84 billion of the semiconductor market, according to analyst firm Gartner Inc. This represents […]

ARE YOU A LEADER OR A FOLLOWER WHEN IT COMES TO SETTING YOUR COMPANY'S supply chain agenda? In its annual trends report, consulting firm PRTM identifies the differences between the […]

Reverse logistics is the process of moving returned goods from their consumer destination for the purpose of capturing value or proper disposal. It includes processing returned merchandise due to damage, […]

WHILE THE LATEST CONVENTIONAL wisdom in manufacturing is to adopt lean production techniques, sometimes it's better not to run lean, suggests Marshall Fisher, professor of operations and information management at […]

By The Numbers: Best-in-Class Reverse Logistics 64.3 Percentage of initial value reclaimed from returned products or parts at "best-in-class" companies. 9.0 Overall reverse logistics costs as a percent of sales. […]

IT HAPPENS EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY day--a product is returned by a customer, for any number of reasons. Maybe the product was defective, or it didn't come as advertised (blue […]

DID YOU EVER WONDER WHY KIDS JUST DON'T seem to be interested in manufacturing jobs? Oh sure, we've all heard the reasons the pundits trot out to explain this lack […]

Stryker Instruments, a manufacturer of surgical instruments, had a classic inventory problem: it wasn't able to share real-time information with its key suppliers. While its inventory levels were too high, […]

STANLEY CHEW, DIRECTOR OF international operations with HighJump Software, offers these "little-known secrets" of warehouse management systems (WMS): 1. The WMS business is not about products--it's about services. While in […]

M&A Scorecard The following mergers, acquisitions and launches scorecard highlights corporate moves in the supply chain technology sector since the last update in the January 2007 INDUSTRYWEEK. Company/Product Parent Company […]

TOO MANY COMPANIES ARE UNDERUTILIZING their investment in warehouse management systems (WMS), according to a best practices survey conducted by the Supply Chain Consortium, which represents consumer goods manufacturers and […]

WHEN JOHN JONES WAS promoted to chairman of Air Products and Chemicals Inc. back in 2000, he set out to transform the company to higher levels of growth and profitability. […]

THEY SAY YOU SHOULDN'T ASK A PERSONAL question if you don't want to hear the answer. Well, we very much wanted to hear your answers to all of the questions […]

THERE'S A FINE LINE BETWEEN BEING SKEPTICAL and being downright cynical, and when it comes to the idea that the U.S. government will somehow solve all--or even some--of the manufacturing […]

THE BUZZ AT LAST MONTH'S ProMat show in Chicago was on a type of material handling innovation that doesn't actually exist yet: fuel cell-powered lift trucks. At least two major […]

IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE WE'VE HEARD FROM Michael Porter, the Harvard professor who back in the mid-1980s wrote Competitive Advantage, which not only got people in the United States […]