Companies are increasingly looking closer to home for their components, meaning that for their US or European operations they are more likely to use Mexico and eastern Europe than China, as previously.

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America's dependence on fossil fuels is a choke-chain that threatens our economy, our national security, and our environment, but some businesses, including Subway, didn't wait for the government to get wise, they took the lead. Over the last three years, the quick-serve leader' …

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Logistics doesn't get bigger than Wal-Mart (except maybe the U.S. Military), and so anything they can do to reduce even by a few % is going to have a pretty big impact when measured in barrels of oil or tons of CO2.

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A Lean adaptation of the famous story of Charles Dickens. Maybe a wise lesson for the Detroit Three in it?

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"Our Common Vision outlines an ambitious but realistic path toward sustainable seafood that businesses can follow to safeguard the future viability of their industry," said Dierk Peters, director of the WWF Sustainable Seafood Initiative.

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Qatar Airways said today that it intended to seek compensation from Boeing over delays in delivering its first 787 Dreamliner aircraft, part of a $13.5 billion order.

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Truckers' protests have ramifications far beyond the owner-operators' plight--first, because trucking is hardly a marginal business... 70 percent of the nation's goods--from Cheerios to Chapstick--travel by truck.

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A deadly tornado tore through the Hickory Hill area causing the roof of the DSC Logistics warehouse to collapse, killing two men, 27 and 38, as well as a 60...

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SustainCommWorld is the first international conference and exhibition where all of the key stakeholders groups responsible for enterprise communication and media supply chain decisions will be assembled.

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A report which talks about the current stage of the logistics industry in Hong Kong and its challenges. A nice example in the video is a logistics company to deliver cooked rice for an extra cost to a fast food chain.

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Renault SA has announced the creation of a new department covering supply chain and logistics. The responsibilities which includes managing production and transport capacities, and organizing transport routes.

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Olaf Tauschke, Agility's Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific, collected the prestigious award in front of more than 300 senior industry professionals gathered at the Bauhinia Room at the Hong Kong Conference and Exhibition Centre. The Agility brand was just launched a year ago.

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This idea has been employed by a number of consulting firms and research institutes. One is SCMMetrix is basically a benchmarking tool developed by W. P. Carey School of Business in Arizona State University.

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The case study is kind of commercial but it`s good to take a look at it, the company presented in the video is Boekhandels Groep Nederland (BGN).

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The standard is designed to minimize the risk of failure in complex IT projects involving third-party suppliers. General Motors looked at how teenagers communicate using Web 2.0 technologies and the way open source projects are managed.

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The countries have been evaluated in criteria such as customs, infrastructure, international shipments, logistics competence, tracking and tracing, etc. Singapore now stands in first position.

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RFID technology in pallets for the purpose of asset tracking is usually used for expensive equipments. The technology sill has not found its way to the cheaper products and sectors like food industry.

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Some of the design responsibilities of the plane have been assumed by Boeing in order to ensure the highest standard. Some of the produced sections of the jets failed to measure to their standards.

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The software giant disclosed a $6.7 billion unsolicited offer to buy BEA Systems Inc., a Silicon Valley company that helped build the market for Web-services software. Buying BEA would make Oracle the No. 2 middleware vendor after IBM.

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WalMart, from now on, is going to focus only on three lines of initiatives in respect to RFID. Pallet tagging for a Sam's Club DC to test RFID-based putaway as one example.

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Carly Fiorina talked about her choice to focus on the total customer experience and satisfaction. Which she said is the leading indicator of how well a company will do in the future.

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From peanut butter to bikes, product recalls are breaking records. Will your supply chain be ready when you have to run it backward in order to track, trace and collect a recalled product?

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Boeing has recently signed a contract with Honeywell Aerospace that will allow them to significantly reduce an airline's maintenance costs by providing expendable parts. The companies partnered as part of Boeing's Integrated Materials Management (IMM) initiative.

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Charles Dominick defined contract management as a tool to ensure that both supplier and buyer are doing what is written in the contract and for procuring organization. Also, it is to see whether the organization is realing the estimated benefits in the contract.

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Based on a report about the current market overview of Business Performance Solutions (BPS) and specifically SAP´s strategic movements. SAP traditionally has had a tendency toward inhouse development of the applications.

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