Archive for April 2011

Prince William and Kate Middleton were married this morning. I wasn’t on the invite list, but that’s understandable since I don’t know the couple or their families. And besides, the stress of figuring out what to buy them for a wedding gift would have worn me out.

I did a quick search this morning to see if there were any logistics-related news linked to the wedding, and all I… Continue reading

You can’t change the price of fuel, but you can optimize your supply chain to eliminate empty miles, require fewer trucks and ensure productive use of all resources.

“Supply chain uncertainty has been sited by many as a prime cause of increased costs,” according to a recent study by Tompkins Associates (Uncertainty Is Certain, Perceptions of Future Risk on the Rise, The Supply Chain Consortium, December 17, 2010). The… Continue reading

Every day on Facebook, I can tell you where many of my friends are having lunch, dinner, or coffee, or where they are shopping or simply hanging out, thanks to location-based apps like Foursquare. So, while part me of understands the concern that has flared up this week by the news that Apple and Google collect location information from computers and mobile phones (the data is supposedly anonymous… Continue reading

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Kichler Lighting is a family-owned company that designs, engineers, markets and distributes lighting solutions. Kichler does not sell directly to consumers. While the company does sell products through the large home improvement retailers, the bulk of its products are distributed to other retail customers, such as showrooms, electrical distributors, landscape lighting distributors, and catalogue and online retailers. In the US and Canada, the company fulfills orders out of… Continue reading

With Passover starting this week and Easter coming up, this was a very quiet week for news. So, we’ll keep it short and sweet today.

Manhattan Associates posted mixed financial results this past quarter. Adjusted diluted earnings per… Continue reading