Trade Matters
You might think that the top Internet retailers ranging from Amazon, Staples and Apple to daily-deal purveyors like Ideeli or Groupon have turned Orwellian as they serve up shoes, watches, printer ink, HDMI cables and restaurant offers as if they can read your minds. Well it is likely that they are just executing a meticulously orchestrated Next [...]
Read More»APICS The Association for Operations Management recently published results of a comprehensive study they undertook to analyze the role Supply Chain Risk Management currently plays within organizations. This report titled “APICS 2011 Supply Chain Risk Challenges and Practices” involved over 9,000 professionals mostly representing production and manufacturing organizations invited to participate in this research. I [...]
Read More»Today we announced several exciting enhancements to GXS Catalogue, the industry-leading SaaS solution that enables retailers and suppliers to synchronize over 550 product data attributes including price, color, size, style and GTIN. With over 140 million unique retail items, the industry’s largest database of product information plays a pivotal role in helping merchandise suppliers and [...]
Read More»I had the opportunity to serve alongside Marianne Timmons and Bob Engel on a keynote panel yesterday at an event called ”Supply Chain Vision 2020″, organized by Resources Global Professionals, here in the Washington DC area. Participants at the round table included supply chain practitioners and thought leaders from a diverse set of organizations ranging from retail, [...]
Read More»For those of us in Product Management, there aren’t many things that are more fulfilling than new product introductions. It gives me great pleasure to share details around an exciting product launch! GXS today announces general availability of the next-generation Data Quality and Compliance service (DQC) for the GXS Trading Grid, the world’s [...]
Read More»Japan marches ahead as its citizens, families, businesses, economy and society start to emerge from disastrous, deadly and destructive impacts of the March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. A uniquely Japanese institution that will also need to emerge from scathing and in my view unfair criticisms leveled on it in recent days is the Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing and inventory management [...]
Read More»2011 will witness the emergence of supply chains that distinguish themselves from their peers by being always aware. Manufacturers, retailers and logistics providers in the past decade have invested in technologies and processes to gain better visibility into consumer demand, supply chain assets and goods in-transit. This paradigm of enhanced supply chain visibility has equipped organizations [...]
Read More»2010 has witnessed the emergence of several regulations that are bound to have a lasting impact on global supply chains – specifically in areas such as logistics, transportation and security. Here are ten such regulations (introduced, expanded or started being enforced in 2010) that I believe have already started leaving their marks on retailers, manufacturers, suppliers, [...]
Read More»Supply Chains are front and center as US Federal prosecutors turn their attention to the practice known as “Channel Check” among the financial analyst community. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has in recent days started to focus on insider trading cases, that according to published reports – revolve around “routinely published information about public-company supply chains”. While the [...]
Read More»The timely detection of two packages containing explosive devices disguised as printer cartridges air shipped to the US this past week has shined the light on supply chain security. These shipments originated in Yemen; one was on an UPS plane that was seized in the UK while the other was sequestered in a FedEx facility [...]
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