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AB&R
MARCH 15, 2022
This article originally appeared on RFID Journal. With first Walmart and now Nordstrom telling suppliers to tag goods, the RFID industry as a whole will benefit—and other companies will hopefully follow suit. Two decades ago, the retailer required that suppliers add tags to all goods supplied to stores throughout its chain.
MIT Supply Chain
FEBRUARY 27, 2014
Does Google’s entry into the robotics industry mark the beginning of a renaissance in manufacturing automation? An article titled Can Google’s Robots Build a New Future for US Manufacturing? Moreover, the online giant is collaborating with Taiwan-based contract manufacturer Foxconn on the development of robot systems.
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MIT Supply Chain
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
Shah will explain the implications at the forthcoming MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’ Crossroads 2014 conference, March 25, 2014, on the MIT campus, Cambridge, MA. However, robots are now being deployed in areas that were once the exclusive preserve of humans, raising new challenges for manufacturers. “In
Talking Logistics
AUGUST 21, 2015
As Joe Dixon, SVP of Supply Chain at Brooks Brothers, commented at the GT Nexus Bridges 2015 conference a few weeks ago: “SAP is our internal ERP system, GT Nexus is our external [supply chain] ERP system.”. Stay tuned for an article I wrote for CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly on this trend, which will be published in the coming days.
Talking Logistics
DECEMBER 16, 2015
While many companies have invested significant time and money over the years to improve their demand, supply, and manufacturing planning capabilities, they have underinvested in workforce planning and optimization, and they’re now starting to feel the consequences. . Abercrombie & Fitch Inc. and L Brands Inc.’s
MIT Supply Chain
APRIL 17, 2014
A large conference for industrial designers had come to San Francisco and overwhelmed the local hotel market. Instead of everyone owning a lawn mower, one owner profits from its purchase and others rent the asset, lessening the need to manufacture more units. Some companies have embraced this idea. View the original post here. [
MIT Supply Chain
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
This changed when some talented professionals recognized that applying queuing theory to the data derived from PLCs would enable auto manufacturers to forecast production line bottlenecks. This article is published in the summer 2014 issue of Supply Chain Frontiers. They could not see how this flood of data could be put to use.
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