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i2 And HCL Technologies Partner To Bring i2 Business Content Library To Customers
Recently i2 Technologies, Inc., the supply chain company, announced an agreement with HCL Technologies, one of India's leading global IT services companies. The companies will leverage HCL's strength in IT services and vast experience in system integration and implementation, with i2's deep supply chain management domain knowledge, to create innovative solutions for companies in the [...]
Webinar on Inventory Optimization at P&G
One of the recent wins of Optiant in the area of inventory optimization has been P&G. In fact the company is using P&G brand here and there as a marketing strategy , well not bad at all… I noticed today they are going to organize a webinar too: The Supply Chain Management Review is going [...]
How to improve the quality of data for Transportation Management System?
One of the interesting issues which I saw in a new research report from Aberdeen Group was that, most of the companies that want to implement International Transportation Management Systems (TMS) find it very difficult to have accurate data regarding the logistics activities in their supply chains. In fact, they ranked this as their biggest [...]
Renault opens up new supply chain deprtment
Renault SA has announced the creation of a new department covering supply chain and logistics, with responsibilities including managing production and transport capacities, and organizing transport routes. The company said the department is to be headed by Michel Faivre-Duboz, who will take up his position as senior vice president, supply chain and logistics, on Jan [...]
Everybody is happy in Christmas days except logistics guy in the retail
Christmas is coming; everybody is happy: The kids are happy because they are going to get lots of presents, parents are happy coz they can rest a bit after that or go on a trip, marketing and sales guys are happy because they are going to sell more! BUT… It will be a nightmare for [...]
The 2007 winners of CHaINA award for superior achievement in logistics were selected
Couple of weeks ago, the China Supply Chain Council presented its CHaINA Awards for the third times to celebrate superior achievements that are enabled by supply chain management in China. Over 150 supply chain senior executives gathered to give recognition and compliments to five outstanding winners at a prestigious gala dinner held at the Shanghai [...]
Online supply chain benchmarking tool for the hospitals
If we take a look at the cost structure of hospitals, we can easily see two big chunks (I mean main cost categories!): Personnel and supply. If we focus on the second one which constitutes 25-30 percent of the hospital`s operating expenses, there are lots of opportunities for cost saving even at the first glance. [...]
The partnership between Andlor and FreeFlow to enhance reverse logistics capabilities
Among the partnership news from last week, one notable one was between FreeFlow, a provider of inventory asset management services, and Andlor, a provider of reverse logistics software for manufacturers, distributors and third party logistics providers. The partnership pairs FreeFlow's award-winning solution for dispositioning returned, excess and obsolete inventory with Andlor's growing roster of customers [...]
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