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Managing People and Systems Is Key to Proper Inventory Management

Managing inventory requires skillfully balancing a variety of complicated and competing objectives. Supply management professionals responsible for inventory have to control inventory holding costs, such as warehousing and financial opportunity costs, while pursuing cost savings that may be obtained with larger purchases. They also simultaneously support ambitious customer service levels for a constantly expanding product portfolio. Of course, supply managers who focus on inventory know these pressures well.

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In 2013, E-Commerce Keeps Powering U.S. Industrial Market Fundamentals

Positive momentum continued in U.S. industrial markets through the first quarter of 2013 as e-commerce maintained its influence on reshaping industrial distribution strategies and facilities across the U.S., according to statistics released by commercial real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield Inc.

By the Holidays, Amazon Will Have DC Within 5 Miles of Every Major U.S. City

Amazon will open eight new U.S. distribution centers between now and the holiday selling season, bringing the total to 54. The result of the ferocious building spree is that Amazon will then have a DC within five miles of most major U.S. cities. That means Amazon will very likely have a DC closer to your customers than many of your stores.

Accellos Launches Mobile Transportation Tracking Tool

Accellos, a vendor of supply-chain execution software, has released AccellosOne SkyTrack Mobile.

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How to Derive Value from Applications in the Cloud

The cloud is here to stay. Tom French, chief executive officer of Supply Chain Coach, outlines the benefits and opportunities contained within this means of conveying key software applications to global supply chains.

Damco Develops Cambodian Freight Operation

Damco has opened a second CFS warehouse facility in Cambodia, in a bid to further enhance and support its customers' growth in Cambodia's emerging markets.

Corporate PC Spending Declining

Worldwide corporate PC spending is falling dramatically with new data revealing a 11.2 percent decline in shipments from quarter one in 2012.

High-Efficiency Yard Management Solutions Save Time and Money

An automated yard management system gets drivers in and out of facilities quickly by using electronic gate readers and providing exact trailer locations. Aleks Gollu, CTO and founder of PINC Solutions, discusses these and other benefits.

Solving Replenishment Challenges Within 1.25 Million Square Feet

Challenge: Imagine a warehouse operation that handles more than 50,000 SKUs housed under 1.25 million square feet of space. Most of those SKUs can be ordered and picked as eaches and needed to be stored on forward picklines. The challenges faced when managing how those pick locations are replenished is enormous.

Aljex Software Integrates With Mobile Apps Smartphone Application

Aljex Software has integrated with Mobile Apps, a smartphone application from uFollowit Inc.

Though Traditional Supply Chain Collaboration Is Dead, Technology Can Help

A recent Deloitte survey of 600 executives at manufacturing and retail companies found that 63 percent were highly concerned about risks within the extended supply chain comprising vendors and customers, ranking it among their top-two concerns. The executives surveyed also cited "lack of acceptable cross-functional collaboration" as the number one obstacle to managing risk effectively. While these survey results indicating a serious lack of collaboration and coordination among trading partners are certainly worrisome, should they really come as a surprise?

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