If you don't already know, the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference ? the must-attend event for supply chain professionals ? is taking place May 21-23 at the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa, Palm Desert, California.
While you can find lots of information on the conference site, here's what we think are the top 5 [...]
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5 things about Kinaxis at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference (Hint… #1 could benefit you)
In one respect, simplifying supply chain costs by using single source, road-based suppliers has not found much adoption by household-name retailers but that is changing and should give a fillip to the now 20-year old pallet exchange networks. This, at least, is the experience of Pall-Ex, who for the last five years have been responsible
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PALLET NETWORKS – EU regulation threatens pallet networks
Cirrus Logistics, provider of decision support software for the supply chain industry, is proud to have received the Queen’s Award for ‘Outstanding Performance in International Trade’. The accolade is designed to honour exceptional companies in the UK for innovation, international trade and sustainable development. Cirrus Logistics won the award ...
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CLASS and SEABERTH win the Queen’s Award for Cirrus Logistics
The ever-fecund Apple supply chain this week fed the iOSphere with rumors of times and features. Imagination did the rest.
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iPhone 5 Rumor Rollup for the Week Ending May 11
Earlier this year, World Trade identified the following seven trends for 2012. The question is, how many are taking shape and, of the ones taking shape, how many are relevant for your supply chain. And are any missing? Let's start by examining the seven trends WT identified. 3PLs are the new Jack-of-all-Trades Apparently, demand for ...
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World Trade 100's Logistics Trends for 2012 -- Do They Have Weight? Part I
Over the past two days, Supply Chain Matters joined over three hundred attendees for the The Future of U.S. Manufacturing Conference, jointly sponsored by the MIT Leaders for Global Operations, MIT Industrial Liaison Program, and MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. In our Dispatch One commentary, we provided some initial impressions from the ...
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The MIT Future of Manufacturing in the U.S. Conference- Observations and Takeaways
Supply Chain Matters joined over three hundred attendees for the The Future of U.S. Manufacturing Conference, jointly sponsored by the MIT Leaders for Global Operations, MIT Industrial Liaison Program, and MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. In our previous Dispatch One commentary, we provided some initial impressions from the first day of the ...
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The MIT Future of U.S. Manufacturing in the U.S. Conference- Dispatch Two
TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp expects to treble its operating profit this year to more than $12.5 billion - still less than half what it earned before the global financial crisis - as Japan's top automaker recovers lost ground in markets from the United States to China. Operating profit jumped more than five-fold in January-March to $3 ...
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Toyota to treble profit this year, trim costs
In today's world, supply chains are no longer localized to an organization's four walls. As companies go more global for their demand and supply markets, there comes with it a spider-web of partners and dependencies. The situation gets more complex as partners may have their own processes, systems and work in their own time zones. This easily has ...
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Supply Chain Visibility: The need & qualities of an effective system
Toyota's January-March profit more than quadrupled to 121 billion yen ($1.5 billion), and the automaker gave upbeat forecasts, marking a solid recovery from a sales plunge caused by a tsunami in Japan.
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Toyota quarterly profit quadruples on recovery
