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O2 to Launch Toshiba TG01 with Nimbuzz Pre-Installed

Nimbuzz recently announced that O2 is launching the Toshiba TG01 handset throughout Germany with Nimbuzz software pre-installed. "The TG01 employs a 1GHz Snapdragon chipset and it has a 4.1-inch screen," writes TMCnet's Bob Emmerson . "The spin is that the ability...

China's supply chain challenge: Mitigating supply risk

AMR Research, supply chain analyst firm recently published a report on countries' risk profile and interestingly, in a survey of 130 global companies China was the top contributing region for nine of 15 risks examined, including supplier and internal product quality failure, security breache...

AMR Research gets new hires for its supply chain group

AMR Research, the research firm focused on the supply chain management and its supporting technologies, announced recently that it is expanding its research team with the addition of three new analysts, Paul Lord, Steve Steutermann, and Allen Johnson. According to PR Newswire , this announceme...

DHL makes exansion in China

Some months ago I published a post about DHL operations in the U.S. which had some problems because of the economic downturn. Apparently such problems still don't exist in China becuase the company is even expanding there: According to WallStreet Journal , DHL Supply Chain, the logistics ...

Logistics cost in the U.S. is dropping

American transportation and logistics cost is dropping for the first time in a long time; to be exact after six years. According to a report published by Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), total spending on U.S. logistics dropped to $1.3 trillion last year, a decrease of...

Siemens becomes a recommended partner for F-35 supply chain

Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. announced last week that after extensive testing and evaluation, Northrop Grumman Corporation Aerospace Systems is strongly encouraging its supply chain to explore the use of Siemens Sinumerik 840D solution line CNC for parts design and manufactuing in the F...

Swisslog introduces new solution for medication supply chain

PRWeb reported that Swisslog has released its next generation of Inventory Management Software (IMS) for the hospital pharmacy. The software controls inventory costs, improves workflow efficiency and enhances patient safety. The software optimizes pharmacy inventory and provides a "per...

Boeing remains loyal to its supply chain procedures despite angry Wallstreet analysts' reports

It seems the wave of the anouncements from Boeing related to delays is not going to end; in this post comes another one! but I liked the detail analysis of the issues presented in this blog as the author Lisa Reisman describes in detail how the issue of supplier component integration has...

How biotech companies can reduce supply chain risk?

I don't think I have written any post on biotech supply chain management in this blog (at least I don't remember any), but seeing this nice piece in ICIS website became a motivation to write one. The author of this article which is titled "Biotechs can reduce supply chain risk&q...

Improving working capital through effective supply chain management

Aberdeen Group has responded to companies' needs in today's uncertain environment regarding tight credit situation and released a report titled "Inventory Management: 3 Keys for freeing working capital". The report highlights that today is the right time for financial innovation ...

Supply chain education ranking: Penn State becomes No. 1

Probably the question of "Which program to choose?" is what many potential supply chain students are facing: Different programs have popped up here and there and many reputable universities are offering supply chain education programs. So AMR Research recently conducted a research to prepa...

Social Entrepreneurship using Facebook

... initiative to get donation from interested people to help the poor, create awareness regaring some topics, and create new networking opportunities for people who want to be active in social fields. ...

Study Anticipates Increasing Use of Linux on Mainframes

© scriptingnews A new study commissioned by CA (and executed by TheInfoPro ) has found that large enterprises are increasingly deploying Linux on mainframes to maximize value and minimize costs. "Linux on the mainframe is clearly a very attractive platform choice for IT organizat...

Hard times for logistics and transportation companies...

The economic downturn has given the logistics and transportation a hard time. To give some examples of the reasons: - As people are buying less, there are less requests to transport products to retail stores. - Manufacturing sector, especially parts and component manufacturers see a dramatic ...

Chiquita receives 2009 Circle of Excellence award by the Distribution Business Management Association

Chiquita Brands International, the banana producer, recently announced that it has been awarded the 2009 Circle of Excellence award by the Distribution Business Management Association. According to Environmental Leader , Chiquita has worked with MIT to address the carbon footprint of its suppl...

Sipgate vs. Skype

VoIP provider sipgate launched in the U.S. this week, with the intention of competing directly with landline telephone services - and with Skype . "Sipgate, which has operated a successful VoIP business in Europe since 2004, launched a new free VoIP calling play in the U.S. that aims...

Global Rejection of Genetically Engineered Wheat

Farmers, consumers and civil society organizations in Australia, Canada and the U.S. released a joint statement confirming their collective commitment to stop commercialization of genetically engineered (GE) wheat . Here's the summary statement: In light of our existing experience with ge...

Washington University launches new master in supply chain from September 2009

Washington University's Olin Business School in St. Louis will launch a Master of Science in Supply Chain Management (MS/SCM) program in September 2009. According to Olin, the new, one-year program is "designed to appeal to students with undergraduate degrees in business, engineering...

Questions which should be answered when buying a mid-size ERP

Supply Chain Management Review ha published a new whitepaper sponsored by Inside-ERP highlighting important questions which should be answered when choosing a mid-size ERP solution. It's worth taking a look at this piece and you can download it here . The document tries to create a balanced...

Fujitsu expands to Australian ERP market

Fujitsu, a leading provider of business, information technology and communications solutions announced that it has expanded its SAP and Oracle portfolio through the acquisition of the Australia and South East Asia operations of Supply Chain Consulting Pty Ltd, a market leader of SAP and Oracle e...

AMR announces top 25 supply chains for 2009

I have been covering annual ranking of the best supply chains by AMR Research for some years now and apparently this year Apple is still on the top of the list. Companies like Unilever and Intel are now back again in Top 25 as this year was a very tense period for them in terms of credit and o...

Time Warner Inc. Announces Plan to Separate AOL

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GM or Chrysler: Which one is a better option for Fiat?

I am sure you have heard about the rumors related to the merger of Fiat with two American auto-makes Chrysler and GM (Opel part). Besides economy of scale and other motivations, I believe Opel option is a better candidate from supply chain point of view. The Opel merger in essence woul be a supp...

Sony to reduce the number of suppliers to half

In a short piece from Kenji Hall written in BusinessWeek , he talks about the recent plans of Sony, giant Japanese electronics company, to cut supply chain costs. According to Kenji, the tech giant has about 2,500 suppliers, but will reduce that number to 1,200 by March 2011. This effort in t...

New report on supply chain cost reduction in India

Aqua MCG has announced the release of a new report "Supply Chain Cost Reduction in India" to their offering; this is a comprehensive report for companies facing the complex process of Sales & Operation Planning, and Cost Management. If you are interested in India's supply chai...

VHA Selects Eight Health Care Organizations for Supply Chain Excellence

VHA Inc. , a national network of not-for-profit hospitals based in Irving, Texas, has recognized eight health care organizations for supply chain management excellence and named them as winners of the 2009 VHA Leadership Award for Supply Chain Management Excellence. According to Earth Times ,...

Orientalische Spinatsuppe

Ich finde es ist mal wieder Zeit für ein Rezept . Heute gab es bei mir eine echt leckere Suppe und das Rezept möchte ich Euch nicht vorenthalten. Ich liebe Suppen . Man kann wunderbar größere Mengen kochen und muss sich somit nicht jeden Tag überlegen was es den zum Essen geben könnte. Außerdem h...

New survey launched to identify the current state of supply chain education

I have written several posts so far on the subject of suply chain education and the efforts some of the American schools and other International institutions are making to introduce more specialized programs. Supply Chain Management Review Magazine has taken the lead in this area and launched a ...

CostPlus supply chain chief steps down

Cost Plus, a specialty retailer of casual home living and entertaining products, has announced that Ray Whitley, senior vice president of supply chain, has left the company. According to Trading Markets , Mr Whitley's position will not be replaced and his responsibilities have been assign...

Ariba organizes spend management event in Sweden

Ariba, the provider of spend management solutions has launched a series of live events all around the world to share the lessons learned and best practices in the area of procurement, contract management and spend management in general. For those of you who live in Northern Europe, I came acro...

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Smart Software becomes SCM best practice company for the third year

Niche SCM company, Smart Software, which is a provider of demand forecasting, planning, and inventory optimization solutions, announced recently that two supply chain industry publications,Supply & Demand Chain Executive and Inbound Logistics,have chosen the company to be on their "Top ...

Mamapedia: A Hot New Website For Moms

...ee. Mamapedia is a one-stop-shop where moms can tap into the wisdom of other moms on an array of topics - everything from potty training to weight loss. This amazing tool gives moms the power to a...

Free “Digital Camera World” And Other eBooks

...ced Photography, actual eBooks. This is a fantastic and free opportunity to read about many of the topics you are interested in other than photography; check out the headings in the left column. No...

Healthcare Suppliers Honored at MedAssets Healthcare Business Event

MedAssets last week recognized its top MedAssets Supply Chain Systems suppliers for leading the way in making healthcare more affordable through competitive contracts and innovative Group Buy solutions, according to Trading Markets . Every year, MedAssets honors its vendors and suppliers at i...

S&OP in high tech companies should incorporates measures of risk

According to a recent article from Logistics Management based on this month's analyst reports, supply chain risk management has got new dimensions for high tech companies operating globally. Sourcing from low-wage countries like China seemed like such a logical idea before the world's ...

Walmart Canada extends its supply chain contract

Walmart Canada has signed a five-year extension, until 2013, to its contract withSupply Chain Management (SCM), an Exel company. In Canada, SCM provides dedicated transportation, logistics and value-added services to Walmart's 312 stores and Super Centers across the country. According to M...

Supply chain consultants introduce new inventory reduction analytic tool

Supply Chain Consultants announced last week a new inventory management module for its Zemeter family of supply chain management software tools. Reducing inventories and conserving working capital is the number one issue in the supply chain today. According to Business Wire , Supply Chain C...

Future structural changes in supply chains

Bob Ferrari of Supply Chain Matters Blog recently had a Q&A with Kinaxis which he has published on his blog (Read it here ). The topic of the discussion was around the new trends in supply chain space and the structural changes which are coming. I liked Bob's point of view a lot in th...

Ceva contracts Aston Martin to manage inbound logistics

Ceva Logistics has signed an agreement with UK-based luxury car manufacturer Aston martin to manage the full inbound supply chain, including manufacturing support on behalf of Aston Martin. According to Automotive Business Review , Ceva has said that its solution incorporates domestic, Eu...

Director at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center becomes supply chain "Pro to know" of the year

Michael DeLuca, Director, Supply Chain Systems & Consulting Services at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), was named a Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine "Pro to Know" for his work in transforming the supply chains at two leading organizations. The Supply &a...

New Agricultural Biotechnology Blog

...specifics on their presentations and their contact information. In addition to covering the panel topics and presenters at the Convention the site will feature "from-the-field" updates on ...

Using mobile technology to improve medicine supply chain in Africa

Zaragoza Logistics Center, a research institute dedicated to logistics and supply chain management in Spain, recently published the overview of an ongoing research about the use of mobile devices to improve medicine SCM in Africa. One of the many challenges in delivering medicines and health...

Celestica receives a supply chain award

Celestica recently received the Innovation in Technology Award at Aberdeen Group's Third Annual Supply Chain Management (SCM) Summit. According to PR Newswire , The SCM Summit, which took place April 2 and April 3 in San Francisco, provides executives from blue chip and industry-leading co...

Henkel wins supply chain excellence award

A jury of twelve experts from industry, academia, specialist magazines, and business consultants honored Henkel's Laundry & Home Care business sector on April 3 in Germany with the "Supply Chain Management Award 2009" for the successful global reorganization of its supply cha...

New partnership to offer supply chain network design services

It seems like, beside IBM and i2, new niche players are jumping into network optimization services: ChemLogix, a provider of logistics services, announced recently that it has formed a strategic alliance with Automated Decisions, to provide a Supply Chain Network Optimization Service to the chem...

How popular performance based supply chain contracts are?

During the last month I had to work on a cost reduction engagement in a client and had to go to client's main factory everyday. I tried to enjoy having a lot of time in the train and used my iPod to listen to a Wharton podcast series on logistics. One of them which I liked the most was an ...

Seattle TechExecs CIO Panel Forum

...tment and the CIO. To be sure, the forum was front-loaded in some respects to address some of these topics; two of the presentations were on virtualization and social networking, and the panel questio...

Some emission reduction strategies

If you remember, I had a post somewhile ago on a new report from World Economic Forum which was talking about supply chain de-carbonization (Link here ). I went through that report again yesterday and found out some interesting proposed actions which companies can start with to reduce their emi...

Pistachios: Which Brands are Safe?

© √oхέƒx™ Don't let the recent pistachio recalls due to Salmonella contamination scare you into completely avoiding ALL pistachios and pistachio-containing recipes. Although there were numerous pistachio and pistachio-containing products affected , the fact is that only those with pistac...

Cool comedy video on supply chain...

I saw the new episode of this supply chain comedy thing on a situation where the people in the company were using Excel files instead of a solid inventory management system..very cool, I laughed for almost a minute (well not because the scene was very funny but the way they were acting...) The link ...

Training institutions launch low cost supply chain education programs

The crisis hasn't had negative effects only on the companies and normal people. Academic institutions are also affected, especially the ones which have focused a lot on executive or professional education. Therefore it's not surprising to see marketing innovations in professional educa...

Strategies for improving retail supply chain

John Roach, Editor of Retail Solutions Online has written a nice piece titled "Four Must-Do Supply Chain Boosters" on the new requirements of the retail companies in this recession times from supply chain perspectives. As the name of his article shows, he has proposed 4 main strate...

Asetek appoints new supply chain lead

Asetek, the provider of system thermal and acoustic management solutions, announced last week that it has appointed Electronics Industry veteran Alex Tang Vice President of Supply Chain to lead its worldwide manufacturing effort. According to Business Wire , Mr. Tang brings extensive know...

Lockheed Martin opens supply chain command center

Last week, Lockheed Martin opened a state-of-the-art command center to support the Fleet Automotive Support Initiative-Global (FASI-G) program. FASI-G is a Defense Logistics Agency program intended to provide automotive parts support for military vehicles. According to a news release in PR...

The questions you should ask before going to implementation of SCM solutions?

One of the questions many people have asked me is: "How should we approach implementation of a SCM initiative, avoiding failure?". Well, I think we should even start from before the implementation: We should ask ourselves some questions to ensure we have all the readiness and necessary...

Verizon Wireless Plans Subsidized Netbook Offering

© dougbelshaw TheStreet's Scott Moritz this week broke the news that Verizon Wireless is considering a plan to offer subsidized netbooks for $100 with a two-year contract. "Analysts see the move as an answer to rival AT&T's recent netbook efforts," Moritz writes. ...

Rite Aid for Allergies

...lor Allergy Health Guide will also be available online and in Rite Aid stores. The guide will cover topics including: * The tell-tale differences between allergies and the common cold or flu, both o...

Fedex announces the quarter earnings are down 75 percent

Economic downturn has had a dramatic effect on the transportation sector, especially the sales of logistics service provider as there is less freight to be relocated. The new quarterly earnings of Fedex is one evidence of this: Net income for the Memphis -based company was down sharply at $...

Booz & Company's online working capital profiler

In these tough times, cash is in short supply, yet there is up to $950 billion of excess working capital on corporate balance sheets that could be converted to cash. That's the belief promoted by Booz & Company. They have recently introduced a simple online tool in which you can int...

Pharma CI Conference & Exhibition 2009

...a world-class line up of speakers and panelists offering their unique insights and expertise on the topics you care about most! The Pharma CI Conference & Exhibition is THE INDUSTRY'S GOLD ST...

Baker Hughes appoints new VP for supply chain

Baker Hughes announced later this week that Arthur (Art) L. Soucy, 46, will be appointed Vice President Supply Chain. In this position, he will report to Martin Craighead, Vice President and Group President Drilling and Evaluation. According to PR Newswire , , Mr. Craighead will become Senior...

Supply chains need to be intelligent: IBM's new supply chain research finds

I just took a look at the webpage for the IBM's new chief supply chain management officers in 2009 and noticed that they have done a great job of capturing an structuring of the future supply chain needs. IBM work has found that beside the elements such as risk management and collaboration which...

Eqos launches new version of its software oriented at private label management

Eqos, a provider of on-demand global sourcing and retail supply chain management, announced last week the commercial availability of Eqos Enterprise 5.0. According to CRM Today , this latest release reduces the costs associated with global sourcing by further streamlining processes and improv...

Oracle launches new SaaS Sourcing solution

Oracle Corp. has launched a new on-demand sourcing service comprising its Oracle Sourcing and Oracle Sourcing Optimization products. According to Managing Automation , the new solution is based on the sourcing functionality available in the company's E-Business Suite Release 12 ERP softwar...

Verizon Business Launches Hosted OCS Offering

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 8082736 At VoIP Planet , I published an article this week looking at Verizon Business ' launch of a new managed service which offers a hosted version of Microsoft's Office Communications Server (OCS) R2 . As Michael Marcellin, Verizon's ...

The key themes in the supply chain of tomorrow

According to a Deloitte paper published recently, the one size fits all approaches of the past doesn't satisfy the needs of today's and tomorrow's supply chain. Some of the factors which in Deloitt's point of view are making a paradigm shift include (they are U.S. centric): ...

New emerging risks of the Chinese supply chains

I read a very interesting article in International Herald Tribune on the new risks associated with chinese supply chains (full article here ). The main discussion line of the article is that, the period of recession and falling demand in the Western countries, has created a serious challenge ...

Rohm and Haas selects Profit Point software

Profit Point announced early this week that it has been selected by Rohm and Haas to integrate its scheduling processes with the company's ERP data warehouse, Trading Markets reported. The company, which last reported nearly $9 billion in annual sales, produces innovative products for n...

MontaVista Software Launches Meld Developer Community

...eld's People Map to find others who share similar interests in architectures, host OS and other topics; and identify subject matter experts and leverage their knowledge and experience to solve the...