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- Planning for disaster:Keeping your supply chain safe
- September 11th sounded a wake-up call for global enterprises caught with kinks in their supply chain. There may be no sure way to plan for a disaster of that magnitude, but for business continuity, companies need to work on the things they can control. Now, a year later, companies around...
- White papers 2002-10-28
- Inventory Management And Purchasing: Often Overlooked As A Profit Center
- The most important step to success is to establish the policy that will convert and treat the purchasing function as a profit asset center. Informing your business partners that you manage your purchasing/inventory functions as a profit center will further increase their respect for your dealership and offer another...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Inventory Management, Just-in-Time, And Backflush Costing
- Inventory management is an important activity towards ensuring smooth production process. Accounting information plays a key role in inventory management. Just-in-Time JIT manufacturing involves purchasing the raw materials and going ahead with the production process as and when the demand arises. JIT is an approach towards minimizing waste and maximizing...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Current Asset Management
- Current asset management involves managing cash, accounts receivable, and inventories in an organization. Accounts receivable is the net monetary value realized by an organization through sales. An efficient inventory management framework seeks to optimize the available resources towards enhancing the productivity levels. The paper examines the dynamics of current asset...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- The Relative Efficacy of Distribution System Inventory Management Across Auto Manufacturers
- Given the size of the automobile industry, and the high per-unit cost of a car in inventory, it would seem that inventory management is an important issue in the automotive industry. Indeed, there has been tremendous anecdotal coverage in the business press regarding automakers' consistent efforts to reduce inventory. Most...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Industry Spotlight: Logistics and Supply Chain Management
- Gaze down the aisles of the local Wal-Mart or scan the listings at Amazon, and a person can easily imagine the technical expertise and wizardry demanded by logistics and supply-chain management. From Radio Frequency IDentification RFID chips to inventory management systems, IT professionals work behind the scenes to ensure Elmo...
- White papers
- The Art of Supply Chain Optimization
- This paper explains crafting of supply chain processes that updates logistics and inventory management. It explains the case of the growing retail chain Michaels Stores Inc who called a logistics team to do this crafting. The new supply chain and inventory management plan was designed to streamline product flows to...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Integrated Capacity And Inventory Management With Capacity Acquisition Lead Times
- In this paper we consider a make-to-stock production system whose permanent production capacity can be increased temporarily by making use of some contingent resources, while this capacity acquisition has a constant lead time associated with it. We present a model where the capacity management problem is handled in an integrated...
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Integrating The Inventory Management And Vehicle Routing Problems
- Consider a congested urban logistics network with one depot and many geographically dispersed retailers facing demands at constant and deterministic rate over a period of planning horizon, but the lead time is variable due to traffic congestion. All stock enters the logistics network through the depot and from where it...
- White papers 2005-06-10
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- Jeff Green, CFO, Assumes Additional Duties As VP of Operations for Airliance Materials
- Business Editors CHICAGO--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 3, 2000 Jeff Green, Chief Financial Officer for AirLiance Materials, has assumed additional duties as VP of Operations. In this role, he will oversee the warehouse operations at the worldwide headquarters of AirLiance Materials in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Green will report to David...
- Research articles 2000-08-03
- Year 2000 Wire/Unisys Announces Key Role in Readying United Airlines' Airport Hub Operations And Aircraft Maintenance Systems For Year 2000
- BLUE BELL, Pa.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 23, 1998-- Carrier Turns to Unisys for Year 2000 inventory and assessment services, and vendor management for Embedded Systems Unisys Monday announced that it is providing consulting services to United Airlines for Year 2000 readiness of embedded systems that control airport hub operations,...
- Research articles 1998-11-23
- Daisytek Names Dale Booth Chief Operations Officer; Booth to Manage Global Operations, Strategic Planning and Technology Infrastructure
- Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ALLEN, Texas--BUSINESS WIRE--March 31, 2003 Daisytek International Corp. (Nasdaq:DZTK) announced today it has named Dale Booth as chief operations officer to oversee worldwide operations (except for ISA International plc in Europe, headed by Bruce Robinson). Booth's responsibilities will include directing Daisytek's U.S. and international operations...
- Research articles 2003-03-31
- Flexible, Innovative POS And Store Inventory Management Solution
- Retek Integrated Store Operations ISO can improve Point-Of-Sale POS systems as well as cash, store labor, and store inventory management. Based on open-technology standards and native Web architecture, the Retek ISO applications are entirely Java-based and are optimized for deployment on Intel processor-based systems, to deliver high-performance, flexibility, and reliability...
- Case studies 2005-03-11
- Modernizing Inventory Management
- The original Cole Hardware was founded in 1959 by Dave Karp. Today, his son, Rick Karp has four stores throughout the city of San Francisco. Technology is at the heart of operations for this small business. Karp currently spends 50,000 to 100,000 dollars annually on IT to help optimize and...
- Videos 2009-01-27
- Warehouse Management Systems Technologies: Transforming Customer Satisfaction Through Better Inventory Management
- This paper is a powerful aid that provides insight into warehouse, labor, and transportation management technologies and their impact on supply chain visibility. As such, the information may be used to synthesize warehouse operations, customer satisfaction, and information quality. It can change an organization from reactive to proactive. Managing the...
- White papers 2002-07-30
- Increasing Operational Efficiency Through Improved Customer Service - A Case From The Process Maintenance Business
- In this paper we illustrate how new service concepts in which product suppliers get more involved in their customers' operations enable suppliers to arrange their own supply chains more efficiently, while simultaneously providing better service to the customer. Through a case study of a process equipment supplier and one of...
- White papers 2003-11-21
- Merisel's Rittenmeyer takes next step to improve operations; appoints Kris Rogers to vice president, product and inventory management
- EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 22, 1996--Merisel's President and Chief Operating Officer, Ron Rittenmeyer, Monday announced initiatives to continue driving higher levels of customer satisfaction, improve efficiencies and better align the U.S. company's resources.
- Research articles 1996-01-22
- How Operations Research Drives Success at P&G
- Operations research isn't just geek science at P&G. It's an integral part of the company's marketing, sales and supply chain. ...
- Articles 2008-02-13
- Wolseley plc Interim Management Statement Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. The question-and-answer session will be conducted electronically. [Operators Instructions]. We will take now our first question from Tim [inaudible]. Please go ahead. Unidentified Analyst Hey, guys. This is Tim [inaudible] in Dublin. My first question is in relation to the stock...
- Earnings calls 2007-11-30
- Planning and Implementing an E-commerce Strategy
- E-commerce essentially means selling products and services online—but it's not as simple as it may sound. E-commerce requires a sophisticated content management system and a strategy that combines many separate elements. To begin with, e-commerce demands dedicated purchase, payment, and support systems along with customer relationship management procedures. A quality...
- Articles 2007-10-25
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