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Is It a Good Idea to Invest in Hiring a Purchasing Manager?

Precoro

In the article, we look critically at the role of the purchasing manager and discuss how to determine the value of hiring one. Reducing the price on the tag while maintaining the quality is often a crucial market advantage. It lowers the cost of production and, subsequently – prices for the end customers. Sign up for a demo here.

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How to Become DFARS Compliant and Avoid Counterfeit Parts in the Aerospace and Defense Supply Chain

RFgen

This article will examine the scale of the counterfeit parts problem and what’s changed in acquisition regulations to try to address it. The SASC “discovered counterfeit electronic parts from China in the Air Force’s largest cargo plane, in assemblies intended for Special Operations helicopters, and in a Navy surveillance plane.”

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Career advice: Keeping your edge as a supply chain professional in the face of change!

Kinaxis

by Dr. Madhav Durbha There is a standalone vehicle emission check shop that I visit to get my car checked prior to the annual tag renewal. Just recently, I was talking to a youngster studying industrial engineering with specialization in SCM. Supply chain management is quickly evolving to be quite an interdisciplinary field.

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Insight on how 3PL handles eCommerce Returns for B2B and B2C Retail Brands

Vinculum

Many times, the articles must be cleaned, re-tagged and re-bagged. With the significant increase in specialization in streams such as warehousing, business analytics, product monitoring etc.,3PL It offers efficiency, flexibility, specialization and high-tech proficiency. Every business has its special needs.

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29 warehouse & automation experts share insights on how warehouse robots will impact industry employment

6 River Systems

This chart from the MIT Technology Review shows a picture of how little everyone agrees on how/if automation replaces jobs, while this article for Forbes does a good job of explaining how automation has affected jobs through history (on the wider scale, it actually tends to create more jobs than it replaces). It also points to smarter use.

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Mobile Barcoding and Warehouse Automation for Retail Inventory

RFgen

IHL consulting group research discovered overstocks and out-of-stocks cost global retailers $1.1 Instead of piling excess inventory for massive sales and cutting into overhead costs, real-time reporting can optimize and balance only the merchandise levels required. billion in sales annually. Keep Pace with Growing Operation Complexity.

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Mobile Barcoding and Warehouse Automation for Retail Inventory

RFgen

IHL consulting group research discovered overstocks and out-of-stocks cost global retailers $1.1 Instead of piling excess inventory for massive sales and cutting into overhead costs, real-time reporting can optimize and balance only the merchandise levels required. billion in sales annually. Keep Pace with Growing Operation Complexity.