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An Untapped Source of Savings in a Warehouse Environment
A logistics or plant manager is constantly under pressure to reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction. By reducing picking times and maximizing space utilization through the use of a slotting application, pick per item costs are reduced, customer satisfaction is increased, orders are fulfilled faster and there are fewer stock...
Achieving Substantial Productivity Gains and Rapid Time to Value
While a variety of operational strategies and distribution technologies can play a role in driving out costs and improving performance, a relatively new category of application, typically referred to as a Labor Management System LMS, offers powerful tools that enable companies to achieve substantial operating cost reduction and improved service...
Direction in Integrated RFID Solutions: From Compliance to Performance
Radio frequency identification RFID is the most rapidly growing segment in today's automatic identification industry. The use of RFID and the adoption of the EPCglobal Electronic Product Code EPC Standard will ultimately provide data about products delivered to the market never available before. With EPC, each and every good produced...
Optimizing Your Warehouse Operations With SAP R/3 TRM
This white paper is designed to give warehouse operations managers and IT managers a useful framework for understanding SAP's Task and Resource Management TRM application. It presents an overview of TRM and its unique capabilities and benefits, provides key insight into which organizations will reap the highest value from TRM...
Why Accuracy Is Important?
"Most businesses require a continuing flow of materials and supplies. To avoid disruption Of that flow, most make an effort to keep track of the amounts of each item on hand. In Small businesses with small amounts of inventory, it is often sufficient for a human to ...
Simulation In The Warehouse
"This white paper is intended as an introduction to the technology of computer simulation for Senior management in the logistics, distribution and warehousing industries. It outlines Capabilities and potentials at several levels and may also be of use to sales and marketing Personnel. Hardware and software requirements...
How Inventories Go Wrong
"Even small errors in data measurement and operational processes compound to cause inaccurate inventory Paper-driven batch computer systems have been the most common form of inventory recordkeeping for nearly two decades. Common inventory systems of years past involved manual Recording of information on paper and key entry after the...
Inventories in Different Industries
"Modern, on-line inventory systems receive most of their input from and direct most of They’re output to the hourly workforce. These systems control and direct a significant Number of people, representing a significant labor cost. Therefore, to be successful, they Must be designed to achieve high levels...
In-Plant Operations
"The control of material movement within an inventory facility is as critical to inventory accuracy as the control of receipts and shipments. The movement of a pallet from point A to point B will not, in itself, affect the four-wall on-hand balance of the product. But if the wrong material...
Outbound Operations
The outbound side of an inventory facility is often the most complex part because material tends to be received in bulk and shipped in smaller quantities. Shipment in small quantities means relatively high picking, packing, and shipping cost and, therefore, justification for sophisticated material handling equipment. Because inventory accuracy is...
Material Handling Considerations
Inventory accuracy results from accuracy in individual material movements. The simultaneous achievement of both accuracy and productivity requires a system that fits the methods and procedures used in the business. These methods and procedures, in turn, are often dictated by material handling and storage equipment. Inventory systems, therefore, must be...
Inventory Management
Like "The best laid schemes o' mice and men..." Robert Burns, even the best-designed inventory systems will fail to produce accuracy and high levels of productivity unless they are well managed. The system designer builds for the present and for the future, to the extent it can be anticipated. The...
Commitment Of New Inventory Management System
"The functional design defines what it is that should be done. The decision to commit funds to the project depends on the cost-benefit analysis that logically occurs after the functional design has been completed. Ideally, the cost analysis will result in a single figure representing the new costs that the...
Delivery Plan For Inventory System
The completion of the functional design and the cost-benefit analysis are almost always necessary precursors to a commitment to build or buy an inventory system. Once that commitment is made, much work remains to be done. The next step is the technical design of the system. Following the commitment to...
How to Measure Accuracy
"Publicly owned companies are required to keep financial records in a relatively standard Way so stockholders can read financial reports with reasonable assurance that profits are profits and losses are losses. Further, it is required that an independent auditing firm review the bookkeeping methods and testify annually to the...
Inbound Operations
"At first glance, accurate inventories appear easy to achieve. Material movements are the key. Control them, validate that they are done properly so errors cannot enter the inventory balances, and the result is accuracy. While the concept is simple, its application is not. Special considerations and requirements abound. Many...
Case Study: Sony Music Distribution
A company with diverse products and customers, Sony needed a system that could handle finished goods destined for the consumer and other Sony facilities as well as raw materials to support manufacturing. This includes manufacturing support, retail distribution, fulfillment products and promotional items. After a lengthy selection process Sony purchased...
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CDC Software Completes Acquisition of Catalyst International
ATLANTA -- CDC Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation (NASDAQ: CHINA) and a provider of industry-specific enterprise software applications and business services, announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Milwaukee-based Catalyst International, a leading provider of supply chain execution solutions and services. As previously...
CDC Software Enters Pact to Acquire Catalyst International
Wireless News09-05-2007CDC Software Enters Pact to Acquire Catalyst InternationalWIRELESS NEWS-September 5, 2007-CDC Software Enters Pact to Acquire Catalyst International C2007 10Meters - http:// www.10meters.com CDC Software, a subsidiary of CDC Corp. and a provider of enterprise software applications and business services, announced that it has entered into a definitive...
CDC Software Enters Agreement to Acquire Catalyst International
Acquisition Will Expand CDC Software's IMI Supply Chain Product Line and CDC Global Services Portfolio with Expertise in Large, Multi-National Businesses ATLANTA -- CDC Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation (NASDAQ: CHINA) and a provider of industry-specific enterprise software applications and business services, announced today that...
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