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- Appleton Papers Likes Flexibility, Hates ... Paper
- With net sales of more than $1bn in 2005, Appleton is an old-line company with at least one big advantage. Formed in 1907 in Appleton, Wis., the company is the world's largest producer of carbonless paper, used in business forms. Although it is nearly a century old, Appleton hasn't been...
- Case studies 2006-10-01
- Supply Chains Enter the World of Wireless
- Liaison draws on mobile computing technology, including active and passive RFID tags, from Psion Teklogix Inc. To integrate disparate systems and make full use of the data, it utilizes an RFID infrastructure from middleware provider Ship2Save. Most of Psion's applications are geared to Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN), which work...
- Case studies 2006-10-01
- Western 3PLs Flock to China's Big and Bustling Logistics Market
- Like most things in China, the logistics market is big, bustling and bursting with potential - and Western third-party logistics providers are getting in on the action. Aggressively positioning themselves to take advantage of China's economic boom and huge logistics market, these providers aren't coming to the party empty-handed. They...
- White papers 2006-10-01
- How Is Your Supply Chain Performing?
- It's getting harder and harder to track the performance of suppliers, carriers and processes that make up a global supply chain. This paper discusses how a few successful companies are addressing the problem. While many companies are running away from inventory, or at least trying to minimize their exposure to...
- White papers 2006-09-01
- 'True' Collaboration: It's in the Eye of the Beholder
- Nearly everyone agrees that a synchronized supply chain requires effective collaboration between trading partners, but when it comes to defining what collaboration actually is and how to accomplish it, opinions are all over the map. Some describe automated communications between partners as collaboration, even if the information being exchanged is...
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Low-Margin Products, High-Service Demands Drive Innovene's Supply Chain Choices
- Operating in the highly competitive petrochemical market, INEOS subsidiary Innovene needed a supply chain solution that would help it produce at low cost and keep inventories in check while meeting all of its customers' needs. After doing research on different systems, Innovene decided to implement the Zemeter supply chain suite...
- Case studies 2006-09-01
- WMS Throws Yoke Off Czech Manufacturer
- A private company, Agrostroj Pelhrimov's product line includes rotary mowers, mulchers, forage harvesters, milking machinery and manure spreaders. With its sales opportunities continuing to expand, not the least of which with buyers in the emerging Central and Eastern European nations, in 2004 Agrostroj built a 25,000-square-meter warehousing and manufacturing facility....
- Case studies 2006-08-01
- Supply Chain Management: The Perils of Going Global
- For most of its life, IBM has had operations in various parts of the world. Whether or not they were managed in a coherent, centralized fashion is another matter. Indeed, for the many companies that are now outsourcing their manufacturing and procurement to foreign locations, that's the crux of the...
- White papers 2006-08-01
- Kenco Logistics Helps Parksite Build Its Business
- Parksite's management realized that it needed a more dedicated model to overcome existing service issues and to handle the steady growth going forward. Underwood investigated numerous 3PLs and solicited bids based on a performance prospectus the company developed. A good plan is one thing, but the general manage says that...
- Case studies 2006-07-01
- Logistics Providers Adapt Services to Shifting Demand
- Changing market dynamics, particularly globalization of manufacturing and sourcing, are impacting the types of value-added services customers want from third-party logistics providers. The definition of "Value-added" can be a moving target, however. Many services that used to fall into that category - things like kitting, sequencing and repackaging - have...
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Agistix's On-Demand Solution Gives Maxim Centralized Logistics Control
- Nearly all high-tech companies these days seek competitive advantage through far-reaching global supply chains, but they can only achieve this edge with tight, centralized control over their logistics. Maxim Integrated Products, a semiconductor manufacturer, understands this mandate perfectly. The company selected Agistix to control shipping and distribution and to maintain...
- Case studies 2006-07-01
- MCA Solutions Puts KLA-Tencor Service Supply Chain in the Chips
- As the world's leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor industry, KLA-Tencor serves every major semiconductor manufacturer. Each customer's wafer fabrication facility typically costs $3bn, so these integrated circuit manufacturers rely on KLA-Tencor to ensure maximum uptime. To leverage the advanced forecasting and risk management...
- Case studies 2006-07-01
- Terra Technology Provides Campbell Soup With a Recipe for Supply Chain Success
- Campbell Soup Company is a $7.5bn leader in the consumer packaged goods industry producing familiar brands such as Campbell's, Prego etc. Campbell adopted a strategy to improve customer satisfaction by aggressively introducing new products to market, introducing a slew of successful products such as Campbell's Soup at Hand. As the...
- Case studies 2006-07-01
- TradeBeam Hits a Home Run for Stryker Instruments~ Supply Chain
- Faced with the challenge of sharing real-time forecast and consumption rate data information with suppliers, Stryker Instruments suffered inflated inventory levels, stock-outs and a variety of time-consuming supply chain administrative issues and costs. Stryker needed to give its U.S. and overseas suppliers a window into the division's data without administering...
- Case studies 2006-07-01
- Supply Chain Consultants Grows Process Improvement for Sunsweet Growers
- For Sunsweet Growers in Yuba City, Calif., the implementation of Supply Chain Consultants' Zemeter software has allowed the marketing cooperative to bring its supply chain improvement plans to fruition. According to vice president of strategic business processes for the world's largest dried fruit company, the Zemeter supply chain management software...
- Case studies 2006-07-01
- 100 Great Supply Chain Partners Secrets to Success
- Whether the company is a supplier, manufacturer or retailer, the supply chains a person participates in are increasingly interdependent. No single company can succeed unless all supply chain participants operate as one seamless entity. In fact, the key to global business success today is all about strengthening the supply chain...
- Case studies 2006-07-01
- Globalization, New Customer Demands Drive Logistics Outsourcing to the Next Level
- Every business faces periodic moments of truth, when it must redefine itself to face the future. For IBM, the latest turning point came about 13 years ago. Challenged by younger and nimbler rivals, the company was hemorrhaging money, people and market share. Then the former chief executive officer of RJR...
- Case studies 2006-06-01
- Take a Comprehensive Approach to Boosting Warehouse Productivity
- Ravery part of the corporate supply chain is tasked with improving operations and increasing efficiency and the warehouse or distribution center is not excepted. There, in the pursuit of greater productivity, managers want to get more from the labor force, more from their IT systems, more from the facilities themselves....
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Home Depot Turns Its Attention to Supplier Performance Management
- Home Depot's information systems were not near where they needed to be to support the business of a Fortune 500 company. The Atlanta-based home-improvement chain, outranked in sales only by Wal-Mart Stores and France's Carrefour, had been sailing along with a hodgepodge of systems. To stay on the course of...
- Case studies 2006-06-01
- Looking Backward: Sony Ericsson Takes on Challenge of Reverse Logistics
- It takes huge amounts of creativity and flexibility to succeed in the mobile-phone business - and maybe a touch of masochism as well. The joint venture between Japan's Sony Corp. and Sweden's Ericsson AB has had its share of ups and downs in the four and a half years since...
- Case studies 2006-05-01
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