After months of planning, we finally held our seminar on performance-based outsourcing (PBO) in Orlando this week. Great presentations from Kate Vitasek (whose book “Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules that Will Transform Outsourcing” was just published) and representatives from Whirlpool, Del Monte, Penske Logistics, Transplace, and Unipart Logistics. Equally informative were the discussions the attendees had during the think tank sessions. In the days and weeks ahead, Steve Banker… Continue reading
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I’ve been researching the ROI associated with consumer goods (CG) companies using downstream data (e.g., POS, store level inventories, and DC-to-store shipments). As part of this research, I recently spoke with a supply chain director at a very large CG company who asked, “Why can’t my supply chain team think like my category managers?”
A little background will help you understand his lament. Large CG manufacturers generally have account teams… Continue reading
Last week, the U.S. Commerce Secretary, Gary Locke, unveiled details of the National Export Initiative (NEI), a new effort by President Obama aimed at doubling U.S. exports over the next five years to support 2 million jobs in America. According to the press release, NEI is focused on three key areas:
- A more robust effort by this administration to expand its trade advocacy in all its forms
Financial results keep coming in from software vendors and 3PLs, confirming what we already knew: 2009 was a challenging year.
Here is some of the news that caught our attention this week:
At the end of January, two RFID suppliers announced that the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus will be using RFID tags to track thousands of components and parts for the A350 XWB aircraft models. Airbus had previously announced that if a part is serialized, repairable, and replaceable, it would require either an RFID tag or a contact memory button (CMB). In pressurized areas of the aircraft, RFID tags will be… Continue reading
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