Over the past five years Best Buy Co. has developed a world-class supply chain that supports the company's position as one of the nation's top retailers, while saving millions of dollars in costs.
The pressure is on for companies to employ demand-driven strategies - technologies and processes that can "sense" and communicate real-time demand across customers, suppliers and employees.
Greater attention and respect come to returns management as companies learn to exploit its potential for saving money and generating a positive customer experience.
Every company in the hyper-competitive automotive sector is challenged to continuously reduce costs and add value without decimating razor-thin margins. The supply-chain is a target in all of their sights.
Great vision inspires great effort, sometimes turning the improbable into life-changing reality. This is the story of one man's desire to bring reliable and inexpensive phone service to the people of India and the supply-chain effort that helped make it happen.
Despite lingering concerns over standards, reliability and cost, Wal-Mart, DOD and other major retailers are pushing ahead on first-stage mandates that will eventually lead to RFID-enabled supply chains.