THE CASE FOR PLM By Serhat Cicekoglu, Accenture Products fail an average of nine out of 10 times; even a small decrease in failure rates can greatly affect a company’s bottom line. Consumer goods manufacturers should look closely at product life cycle management to realize possible profit gains.
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CREATING OPERATING SOLUTIONS THROUGH REAL ESTATE ASSET STRATEGY ACROSS THE SUPPLY CHAIN In today’s rapidly evolving and competitive business environment, corporate America is looking at its industrial real estate in a whole new way.

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Industrial Real Estate Strategies To Increase Operating Profitability

The Return of Sales and Operations Planning
Colin Snow, Ventana Research

SUPPLY CHAIN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE   ClearMomentum is your resource for Supply Chain Business solutions. Companies that compete in Distribution, Service and Manufacturing industries can rely on ClearMomentum to help improve free cash flow and profit. ClearMomentum delivers cutting edge strategies that uncover value, and, create more profit without necessarily going to the bank or shareholders for additional capital.

The Smart, Sensor-Based RFID Network
Items tagged with sensor-based RFID coupled with new software technology are poised to connect, integrate and expand tracking information across the supply chain network.

Interview: Tom Hostetler, CEO, Cardinal Logistics
Tom Hostetler, Cardinal Logistics

Subaru Defies the Directed Parts Industry Status Quo
At Subaru of New England, collaborative inventory management partnerships yield impressive inventory efficiency gains and suggest a new industry standard for automotive manufacturers.

THE LEADING TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT NETWORK   Nistevo is the leading Collaborative Logistics Network for transportation management, a hosted software service that enables manufacturers, retailers, distributors and logistics service providers to view, plan, execute, settle and analyze their inbound and outbound transportation.

Adoption of RFID across industries has avoided the lowest points of the typical hype/ disillusionment curve that most new technologies experience. Now that implementation is under way, the next step is to perform the thorough analyses required to achieve full value.
THE RFID ADVANTAGE

Supply Chain Strategy Supply chain strategies, including optimization, integration, automation, and implementation.
Planning and Forecasting Understanding customer buying patterns and developing aggregate, collaborative forecasts. Demand planning feeds into the supply planning process, and subsequently the demand fulfillment process. Long-term, intermediate-term and short-term time horizons are considered in the demand planning process.
Logistics Logistic functions.

Can RFID Enable Supply Chain Visibility?
RFID goes beyond the traditional bar code product identification, helping fortify visibility with better data granularity and more timely updates.
ASCET - Supply ChainVolume 6, 6/15/2004