Consumer Packaged Goods

Use of RFID Has Risen Dramatically in Last Four Years, Survey Finds

August 1, 2012

Cybra, a barcode and RFID software provider, has announced the results of a survey illustrating that the use of radio frequency identification has increased significantly during the past four years. Specifically, the number of responding companies that indicated they were using the technology rose by 157 percent since a similar survey carried out in 2008. The study was conducted with 153 businesses, about half of which were Cybra customers.

Dealing with Reduced Budgets Is Top IT Priority of Asia/Pacific Companies, Survey Finds

August 1, 2012

IDC

Dealing with lower/reduced budgets was the top IT priority over the next 12 months of 25 percent Asia/Pacific companies responding to IDC's "Continuum" End-User Survey 2012. That's followed by 18 stating aligning IT to changing business landscape was their top priority, and 12 percent saying their chief concern was building better tools that help management make better business decisions.

Criteria for Make vs. Buy Decisions

July 31, 2012

Brian McClure, Director of Global Procurement and Supply Chain, MeadWestvaco

How J&J Is Introducing "Lean" into the Supply Chain

July 31, 2012

Rick Desmarais, Director of the Supply Chain, MD&D, Johnson & Johnson

Office Depot Debuts Nation's First EPEAT Consumer Labels for Electronics

July 30, 2012

Environmental Leader

A newly-designed Office Depot store in Portland, Ore., will be the country's first to offer products bearing the EcoSense label for electronic merchandise.

JCPenney Plans to Use RFID to go Cash-Wrap Free by 2014

July 30, 2012

RIS News

JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson is going all in with his bid to remake the customer experience at the century-old department store retailer. A mobile POS deployment beginning this fall is just the first step in an ambitious plan involving storewide use of RFID to eliminate traditional cash wrap stations, allowing anywhere, anytime checkout, including self-checkout, by 2014.

Advocates for Disabled Sue Walmart, Alleging Poor Access to PIN Pads

July 27, 2012

Storefront Backtalk

Walmart was sued July 25 by a California advocacy group for the disabled, who complained that the retail giant isn't meeting federal or state laws because its PIN pads are too high for customers in wheelchairs to use.

Five Factors Driving U.S. Industrial Real Estate Market's Resurgence

July 26, 2012

Jones Lang LaSalle

Low U.S. interest rates, positive economic indicators and an increasing demand for prime, well-located logistics property are some of the elements bringing focus to U.S. industrial assets such as warehouses and distribution centers, according to Tim O'Rourke, executive vice president at Jones Lang LaSalle.

Growing Talent Crisis Seen in Finance, IT, Other Areas

July 26, 2012

Hackett Group

Finance, IT, procurement and other business services areas are in the midst of a growing talent crisis, and the failure of HR and business services leaders to effectively collaborate is in large part to blame, according to new research from The Hackett Group.

Retailers Encouraged Congress Will Enact E-Fairness Legislation This Year

July 26, 2012

RILA

Congress has moved one step closer to closing a decades-old loophole that has given online retailers an artificial competitive advantage over their brick and mortar competitors with hearings on the Marketplace Equity Act (HR 3179).

Consumer Packaged Goods

The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the consumer packaged goods industry. Learn how consumer packaged goods companies and their suppliers around the world are managing the flow of products across all channels of the enterprise. Experts sound off on forecasting and demand planning, supply-chain visibility, logistics outsourcing, inventory optimization, transportation management, warehouse management, supply-chain security, corporate social responsibility and more.