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• Buying Power Is Not Always Enough

  
  Commitment Matters — Authority: 124
  Wal-Mart is determined to offer low prices and instant availability. And so, it seems, is Amazon. Hence the two are increasingly locked in a batttle. An article in the New York Times describes the nature of the price war that has emerged, with Wal-Mart’s enormous buying power pitched against Amazon’s low-cost ...
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• FedEx Unveils Rocking Tracking Device For Packages – Senseaware !

  
  vhxn.com — Authority: 442
  This morning FedEx has released its Senseaware, it is nothing but a drop-in sensor. They can provide real time temperature, light exposure, accelerometer data to detect drops and GPS location data for the packages. This works within a few feet distance and they will be used for transport medical packages comprising ...
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• RedPrairie Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering

  
  Your Story — Authority: 570
  MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- RedPrairie Holding, Inc. today announced that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, relating to a pro
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• A Challenge For Contracting Experts

  
  Commitment Matters — Authority: 124
  Earlier this week I was invited by TPI to participate in a small discussion group for a feature in CIO magazine . The conversation was based around recent research conducted by TPI that looked at today’s major challenges for IT service management and governance. I am not about to reveal the details of the ...
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• Front Line Forces Say Support Us At Christmas – But Not By Sending Parcels

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  Generous members of the public who show their support for Armed Forces personnel by sending welfare parcels to Afghanistan are being urged to stop and think – and consider alternative and better ways they can back the troops. There are many different ways in which people in the UK can thank forces deployed overseas ...
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• Incident Highlights Supply Chain Management Issues

  
  The New New Internet — Authority: 431
  One of the central worries for cyber security professionals is the issue of supply chain management, namely ensuring that hardware and software produced abroad is not pre-infected with added features to allow future access by a foreign power. This issue was highlighted recently when a California man plead guilty to ...
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• The Social Supply Chain, An Interview with Jeff Ashcroft

  
  SupplyChainNetwork.com — Authority: 118
  Some may call this shameless self-promotion however it’s actually social media I want to promote and I just happen to be the vehicle in this case. With this in mind, I’m sharing with you all the interview I did recently with Constance Korol of the Institute for Business Forecasting, hope you enjoy it… ” I have ...
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• Remote Logistics

  
  husdal.com — Authority: 466
  Yesterday I was talking about emergency logistics , today it is remote logistics . The other day I came across a very interesting post on Logistics Planning for Projects in Remote environments , a post that highlighted the importance of planning ahead and preparing for the worst when undertaking a  ...
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• Are You a "Cyber Monday" or "Black Friday" Type?

  
  BNET Intercom — Authority: 425
  "Black Friday," that infamous day after Thanksgiving, isnt the only major shopping day in the coming week anymore. 87.1 percent of retailers will also run promotions on "Cyber Monday" for all those bargain hunters who shop around online right after the Thanksgiving weekend.
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• A Response to Fried’s Observation on Cargo Security & the Business Community

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 531
  By Ann BeauchesneVice President, National Security & Emergency Preparedness DepartmentI wanted to take the opportunity to respond to Brandon Frieds blog post on Cargo Security and the Business Community. While I respect his opinion, he could not be more incorrect. Mr. Fried is gathering his opinion from one speech ...
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• Supply chain becomes key to efficiency

  
  The Biz Beat — Authority: 134
  Supply chain. Logistics. I know, they’re words that sound arcane or boring or both. Craig Menear But before you roll your eyes and move on to the next article, please realize how important they’re becoming in the business world. That was made clear to me recently by three unrelated events. First, when I was ...
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• Why Does It Take So Long?

  
  Commitment Matters — Authority: 124
  Why does it take so long from the inception of a deal to getting it signed? And why is it that final negotiations always seem to be rushed, leaving many open items still to be resolved by the implementation team? This was the gist of questions raised by IACCM member Mark Hope in a recent note. He went on to say: “I ...
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• HOTTEST VACANCY IN NAIJA AT IITA FOR HEAD, SUPPLY CHAIN, TUESDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2009

  
  NIGERIA TOP JOBS and CAREERS BLOG WEBSITE — Authority: 448
  HEAD, SUPPLY CHAIN (REF: DDG-R4D/HSC/09/09)   BACKGROUND: THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE (IITA) INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR THE POSITION OF HEAD, SUPPLY CHAIN .   IITA IS AN INTERNATIONAL NONPROFIT RESEARCH-FOR-DEVELOPMENT (R4D) ORGANIZATION CREATED IN 1967, GOVERNED BY A BOARD OF ...
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• Emergency Logistics

  
  husdal.com — Authority: 466
  Can commercial logistics’ ideas and solutions work in humanitarian supply chains? No. Why? Well, perhaps they could work, but in most cases they won’t, simply because there is a profound lack of technical logistics knowledge in many aid agencies and even more so, very few experienced logisticians working in the ...
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• i2 prospects and customers: is it time to consider something different?

  
  The 21st Century Supply Chain — Authority: 490
  I, like many others, have been reading about the pending i2 acquisition, and I feel the same way now as I did when JDA Software was first going to buy them last year.  As we proposed then, our suggestion to i2 customers is to turn this time of uncertainty into a time of opportunity… to do something different ...
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• CommScope, Inc. Selects Datalliance VMI

  
  Your Story — Authority: 570
  CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Datalliance, the leading independent supplier of Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) services, today announced that CommScope Inc. (CommScope), a world lea
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• Wal-Mart Benefits Chinese Farmers

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 432
  Barry Friedman, the vice president of Wal-Mart China, has stated that Wal-Mart will actively push forward the "Connecting Agriculture With Supermarkets" program in China, benefiting one million Chinese farmers over the next three years.According to local media reports, Barry Friedman says that in recent years Wal-Mart ...
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• New bridge opens between New Brunswick, U.S.

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 531
  New bridge opens between New Brunswick, U.S. - CBC NewsA new border bridge opened between St. Stephen, N.B., and Calais, Maine, on Monday, with assurances from border officials that it will end long lineups. There are three lanes to process commercial trucks with drive-through cargo-scanning technology, as well as six ...
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• Kraft Rolls Up 50M Miles Saved Through Transportation Efficiency

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 635
  Since 2005, Kraft has saved more than 50 million miles in its transportation and distribution processes globally.The savings came from a variety of initiatives, according to a press release.By shifting to barge shipments of wheat to its Toledo, Ohio, flour Mill, Kraft knocked out 10,000 truck shipments and reduced ...
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• Sony’s Supply Chain Challenges Continue

  
  Supply Chain Matters — Authority: 124
  A posting penned by Anthony Zumpano on the Brandchannel blog does a great job of articulating the latest holiday supply snafu involving Sony .  The consumer electronics producer who recently announced its Reader Daily Edition e-reader device is warning consumers that component shortages will delay shipment ...
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