This was a relatively quiet week, but here are some items that caught our attention:
As you might recall, this past February we held a seminar on performance-based outsourcing (aka vested outsourcing). We had a great lineup of speakers, including folks from Whirlpool, Del Monte Foods, Penske Logistics, Transplace, Unipart Logistics, and a former executive from Thermadyne Holdings. Kate Vitasek, author of Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules that Will Transform Outsourcing was the keynote speaker.
Well, thanks to the folks at SupplyChainBrain, we… Continue reading
I was recently briefed by the executive leadership team of the GENERIX Group, a leading supply chain execution software vendor headquartered in France. One of its customers is Carrefour, the second largest retailer in the world. Carrefour is ramping up consolidation centers (CC) in Europe. The retailer currently has eight centers operating in France with twelve more in development. Carrefour is also conducting a network design study to… Continue reading
Last week, P&G launched its Supplier Environmental Sustainability Scorecard. You can download the scorecard and supporting materials here. In an overview document, P&G explains the scorecard and its purpose as follows:
We are launching the scorecard to measure the sustainability of our suppliers in four key areas: energy use, water use, waste disposal and greenhouse gas emissions—as well as their contributions to key P&G sustainability activities. Developed by… Continue reading
RedPrairie, an ARC client, held its annual user conference, RedShift 2010, in Orlando last week. It was the company’s largest user conference ever. The two biggest news items from the event were the CEO’s explanation for why RedPrairie was acquired earlier this year by New Mountain Group and RedPrairie’s acquisition of SmartTurn, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) multitenant WMS solution.
RedPrairie had been owned by Francisco Partners, a… Continue reading
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