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• Varian Puts Its Supply Chain Under the Scope Ahead of RoHS 2.0

  
  GreenBiz.com Green Business News — Authority: 613
  With just three years available to squeeze lead, mercury, cadmium and other toxic materials from their products, manufacturers like Varian Medical Systems are scrambling to ensure compliance with the new rules.
  2 days ago

• How a Warehouse Can Reduce Costs and Increase Service Level

  
  shmula — Authority: 101
  In Lean, inventory is often viewed in a negative light. Indeed, inventory is one of the 7 deadly wastes . Is the traditional position of Lean justified in thinking so negatively against inventory and the warehousing that goes along with it? Free SigmaXL Download Single Piece Flow, while an ideal state for a ...
  5 days ago

• Disasters within supply chains

  
  Manenough — Authority: 118
  Given the globalised nature of the world economy, many companies, in particular large multinationals, rely on a global supply chain with components coming from all corners of the world.  In addition to the potential problems caused by natural disasters, such as earthquakes, floods and the like, there is also the ...
  5 days ago

• Supply chain: Rotacaster

  
  Business Excellence — Authority: 117
  Thomas R. Cutler describes the advantages of the omniwheel, the revolutionary alternative to the swivel caster, and heralds the entry of Rotacaster into the next dictionary.   The Kleenex brand is synonymous with tissues. Other brands, like Hoover, have dominated the market to such an extent at times that they ...
  6 days ago

• How many slaves work for you?

  
  chai kadai benches — Authority: 412
  How many slaves work for you? There are 27 million slaves in the world today. Many of them contribute to the supply chains that end up in the products we use every day. Find out how many slaves work for
  6 days ago

• Apple Inc. released the names and information of 229 supply chain audits the company has conducted. These audits covered environment, health and safety related aspects

  
  Sustainability and Green Initiatives — Authority: 130
  Apple Inc. released the names and information of 229 supply chain audits the company has conducted. These audits covered environment, health and safety related aspects. They also released the names of its suppliers and manufacturing partners. About 112 facilities were not handling hazardous materials as per standards, ...
  1 week ago

• The Wiseguys Are Stealing Fewer Pharmaceuticals

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 582
  Are those Sopranos wanna-bees meeting stiffer resistance from the pharmaceutical industry security experts? A new report shows that the number of thefts of pharmaceutical shipments declined significantly last year - there were fewer incidents and a much lower average value per theft, according to the latest report ...
  1 week ago

• Adexen Jobs in Nigeria- Head of Supply Chain

  
  New Jobs in Nigeria — Authority: 126
  Job Title: Head of Supply Chain Finance Job reference n°: NGA0736 Sector: Distribution & FMCG - Nigeria - Western Africa Function: Accounting & finance Our client Adexen Recruitment Agency is mandated by a leading FMCG Group with multiple operations in Africa, Middle East, Asia & Europe. The Group is ...
  1 week ago

• How SAPs Software Benefits Poor Rural Women In Ghana

  
  GreenBiz.com Green Business News — Authority: 613
  As part of its CSR initiatives, SAP has partnered with PlaNet Finance to help fund, and make more efficient, the work of rural shea harvesters in Africa -- improving lives and helping to improve the environment in one fell swoop.
  1 week ago

• Pockets of Innovative Manufacturing- ETM Manufacturing

  
  Supply Chain Matters — Authority: 108
  Earlier this week I had the opportunity to partake of my favorite activity, actually visiting a manufacturing facility with a unique value proposition. This facility is demonstrating leading-edge techniques for both lean and flexible manufacturing in an area not necessarily known for practicing these advanced ...
  1 week ago

• MobileDemand Rugged Tablet PC Provider Announces Partnership with Barcoding, Inc.

  
  Get Credit Cards — Authority: 128
  Leading Rugged Tablet PC provider teams with leading supply chain and mobility systems integrator to help more businesses increase productivity, improve efficiency and reduce operational costs. MobileDemand also announces software certification on one of Barcoding, Inc.s partner offerings, Rutherford and Associates ...
  1 week ago

• Various Green improvement initiatives

  
  Sustainability and Green Initiatives — Authority: 130
  Various Green improvement initiatives: Impact of ‘green’ product innovations to costs and capacities, e.g. changes in packaging material to recyclable or reuse material Incorporate environmental costs such as material and waste disposal and carbon emission rate Improve short-term forecast accuracy and ...
  1 week ago

• Apple Shines the Light on Its Supply Chain, Warts and All

  
  ClimateBiz.com — Authority: 92
  Apple released its 2012 supplier progress report Friday, the same day Apple made public its leading supplier list and joined the Fair Labor Association, effective immediately.
  1 week ago

• VRP Analyst & Coordinator Job at Michael Page International, Auckland

  
  Find Job NZ — Authority: 139
  Location:    Auckland Salary:    $60,000 plus benefits Work type:    Full Time Classification:    Manufacturing, Transport & Logistics    Production, Planning & Scheduling   ... ... VRP Analyst & Coordinator Job at Michael Page International, Auckland is a post ...
  1 week ago

• One More Step And We Get Supply Chain Cake

  
  CSRHUB Blog — Authority: 95
  By Bahar Gidwani Apple released details of its supply chain performance, via an extensive “Progress Report.”  Our friends at Supply Chain Matters provided a link to the report , and to a list of all of Apple’s suppliers .   Bob Ferrari of Supply Chain Matters has written a great analysis of the ...
  1 week ago

• How Boeing’s Customer’s Customers Inspire Their Success

  
  The Celtrino blog — Authority: 103
  For manufacturers it is often tempting to think in terms of satisfying our immediate customers’ needs – after all they are the ones paying the bills. But what if we considered the needs of our customer’s customers? Source: Boeing This is precisely what Boeing did in the run up to the release of their new ...
  1 week ago

• US import shipments down in December

  
  Business Excellence — Authority: 117
  Trade intelligence company Zepol Corporation reports that US import shipment volume for December, measured in TEUs, decreased 8.2 percent from November, but increased 1.5 percent from December of 2010. The total number of inbound shipments decreased 6.5 percent from November and increased 2.3 percent from December ...
  1 week ago

• Control Tower Concepts: Supplier collaboration - Beware of the information dead zone!

  
  The 21st Century Supply Chain — Authority: 102
  Im one of those people that has a stack of opened and unopened mail sitting on a desk near the front door. I hate paper-based mail because it takes so much work to open and read and then I have to do something with it which usually means it ends up in an ever-growing pile. Maybe once every couple of months the stack ...
  1 week ago

• Thoughts on outsourcing

  
  Uba Kontrovasie — Authority: 85
  I’ve increasingly become interested in supply chains and the outsourcing of product manufacture (note: I’m only referring to product manufacturing and nothing else). The latter is shrouded in positive and negative opinions from everyone including economists, the government and environmentalists. The detractors ...
  1 week ago

• Illinois Farmers Receive New Guidebook and Online Tool to Improve Local Food System

  
  Seedstock - Sustainable Agriculture News: Business, Startups, Food Security, Biofuels, etc. — Authority: 111
  Illinois farmers will now have access to a new guidebook and Web site designed to boost local food hub activity in the state, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) announced. Warren Ribley, the department’s director, announced the new tools at the annual Illinois Specialty Growers ...
  1 week ago

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