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	<title>Logistics Viewpoints: A Blog for Logistics, Supply Chain, and 3PL Executives &#187; Steve Banker</title>
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	<description>Providing logistics professionals with clear and concise analyses of Logistics Trends, Technologies, and Services</description>
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		<title>Labor Management at DSC Logistics</title>
		<link>http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2010/07/28/labor-management-at-dsc-logistics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Banker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logistics Service Providers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warehouse Management Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warehousing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DSC Logistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor management system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LMS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RedPrairie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[warehouse management system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WMS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently spoke with Jim Chamberlain, the Director of Engineering at DSC Logistics about their rollout of RedPrairie&#8217;s Labor Management System (LMS) solution. Jim began his career at Kraft where he worked to develop labor standards. Based on that experience, he knew this was a big opportunity for DSC when he joined them. In 2005, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions You Should Ask Before Implementing a Supply Chain Solution</title>
		<link>http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2010/07/26/questions-you-should-ask-before-implementing-a-supply-chain-solution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Banker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Logistics Technologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[logistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software selection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you implement a supply chain planning or execution solution, you should talk to other companies that have implemented the solution (ideally, about 20 companies), as well as consultants and analysts familiar with the technology. If you are a busy executive and don’t have the time to conduct these interviews, someone on your staff can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Defines a Mature Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Application?</title>
		<link>http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2010/07/21/what-defines-a-mature-software-as-a-service-saas-application/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Banker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software-as-a-Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transportation Management Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile resource management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MRM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Institute of Standards and Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NIST]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SaaS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TMS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is researching how software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions and cloud computing are being used and deployed today and how these technologies will evolve in the future. Because SaaS is so prevalent in the transportation management systems (TMS) and mobile resource management (MRM) markets, I thought it would be worthwhile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highly-Automated DCs Need an Asset Performance Management Program</title>
		<link>http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2010/07/19/highly-automated-dcs-need-an-asset-performance-management-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Banker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Material Handling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warehousing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ARC Advisory Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EAM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enterprise Asset Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OEE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Overall Equipment Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spare parts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ARC recently published a strategic report called Asset Performance Management: An IT Perspective (available to ARC clients only). As I read through the report, I started thinking about a distribution center (DC) I recently visited. This 750,000 sq. ft. warehouse, which cost $250 million to build, made extensive use of conveyors and sorters directing jobs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Kindle: The Counterfeiting Risks of Offshore Sourcing</title>
		<link>http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2010/07/14/amazon-kindle-the-counterfeiting-risks-of-offshore-sourcing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Banker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Procurement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supply Chain Risk Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brand protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[counterfeiting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kindle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When companies construct supply chains around new products, they often decide to engage with partners in China or other low-wage nations for manufacturing. However, this choice comes with the risk of counterfeiting.  ARC recently published a strategic report titled “Global Strategies for Anti-Counterfeiting and Brand Protection” by Janice Abel and John Blanchard (available to ARC [...]]]></description>
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