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Transportation & Distribution: From Local and Tactical to Global and Strategic

Analyst Insight: As the economic recovery proceeds, companies should be changing their sights from mere tactical cost-cutting measures to more strategic improvement initiatives. Productivity increases and cost containment are now considered a given at the leading companies. The bigger benefits are coming from companies that are integrating logistics and distribution more broadly into innovative supply chain improvement strategies.

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Retail: The Supply Chain Shopping List for Next-Generation Retailing

Analyst Insight: With online retail sales projected to reach 17 percent of total company sales in 2010 and double-digit growth expected each year through 2012, retailers must take measures to offer next-generation retail. That would create a model that focuses on consumers and their experiences up to and through the purchase, or moment of truth. While most retailers have invested in some form of online capabilities, few (7 percent) have built the appropriate supply chain infrastructure to support a true, seamless, cross-channel experience for the customer.

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SaaS & On-Demand Systems: Will SaaS Save the Supply Chain?

Analyst Insight: Last year's economic pressures were among the most severe ever exerted on the modern supply chain. In response, many organizations are searching for ways to cut costs from their operations, either by reevaluating their IT infrastructure or by reengineering their business processes.

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Honeywell Extends Line of Dolphin Mobile Computers

Panasonic Unveils New Rugged Handheld Tablet Computer

Inventory Planning & Optimization: Management Is Key to Unlocking Working Capital

Analyst Insight: Optimizing inventory safety-stock policies without considering capacity and material constraints is not enough. Inventory management should be viewed within the context of a supply and demand balancing process associated with S&OP. Rough-cut capacity planning within the S&OP process should be augmented with inventory analysis.

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Warehouse Management: Which WMS Is Perfect for You?

Analyst Insight: If an organization fails to accurately manage its warehouse, it runs the risk of selling stock it doesn't have or retaining stock it should have sold. Both of these situations result in lost revenue and potentially unhappy customers.

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Motorola Introduces New Series of Rugged Bar Code Scanners

RedPrairie Drops IPO Plans, Agrees To Be Acquired by Equity Firm

Third-Party Logistics: Warehousing Adds Value . . . and Complexity

Analyst Insight: Simply handling storage and order fulfillment more efficiently than their clients could in-house is not enough. In difficult economic times, 3PLs are being called upon-and are uniquely situated-to take on additional tasks such as kitting, light assembly, and custom labeling, that will ease the burden on their clients' operations.

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Global Logistics: Customers Demand Stronger 3PL Service Support

Analyst Insight: Any 3PL that wishes to increase its market share in 2010 must provide higher levels of customer-focused service offerings in this competitive marketplace. Client companies want to have their 3PL contract partners provide better support to their current service offerings.

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Inventory Planning & Optimization: The Business Case

Analyst Insight: Inventory optimization technology has increasingly become an important tool to aide manufacturers in either managing their overall supply chain inventories more efficiently, or having the capability to support decision-making processes with what-if quantification of the impact of certain business decisions on overall inventory investment.

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