 | From Routing Guides to Advanced Inbound Transportation and PO Management; Features a case study detailing how one leading retailer is saving millions of dollars and improving overall supply chain performance from a strategic inbound management program.
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| WalMart has the Scale to Gain Huge Competitive Advantage from the New Appoach; Logistics Costs, Inventory Reduction, Store Replenishment and More all can be Improved |
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| A Fabulous Tactic Supporting Multiple Strategies or a Fabulous Strategy Spawning Multiple Tactics? Understanding What is Behind WalMart's New Initiative to Control ALL Inbound Logistics |
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| Guest columnist David Schneider analyzes what is really behind WalMart's plan to take control over vendor's inbound freight. |
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| One Retailer Finds Big Savings from Varying Store Delivery Times, but Others May Find Trade-Offs not Worth It |
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| Slides from Part 2 of our Smarter Retail Supply Chains Videocast, focused on how network design and supply chain optimization can reduce logistics costs. Featuring Dr. Michael Watson of IBM. Appropriate for consumer goods companies as well. To view the full broadcast, go to www.scdigest.com/supply_chain_videocasts.php |
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| Beyond Dynamic Inbound Routing, WalMart will bring its Trucks to Vendor Docks; How much Leverage will be Lost? |
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| Will Importers be Ready? Pilot Proposal Rejected; Test Bed Available from Customer Department
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| Differences in Costs for Container Movement Can Often Overwhelm Differences in Land or Lease Prices; One Retailer Learns the Hard Way
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| While web-based tools to enable suppliers to send Advance Ship Notices (ASNs) have now been available for several years, adoption has been slow. SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore sees signs of improvement, however, sharing several examples he's seen in the past year, and wonders if the real driver is now supply chain visibility as much as improved inbound receiving processes. |
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