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| The Oracle Speaks: Inbound Transportation - Freight Term Optimization | Part of an entertaining and informative podcast series, this episode features fictitious Director of Supply Chain Isaac Edwards, who consults the Oracle on how to analyze his retail company’s inbound freight and determine how and if his company should manage its own inbound freight. | 06/11/2010 | 0.3 KB |
| Article: Using Mobility To Manage Quality In An Outsourced World | In recent years, there have been hundreds of costly product recalls due to manufacturing quality issues, ranging from automobiles, to computer batteries, to products as innocuous as toys. BY Motorola Mfg. | 06/04/2010 | 194.7 KB |
| Application Note: Manufacturing: Maximize Uptime And Improve Productivity With Mobility | The manufacturing environment demands efficiency and productivity to remain competitive in today’s market. And it requires easy-to-use communication in order to maximize uptime, ensure plant safety, support long work shifts and provide the ability to rapidly respond to incidents. By Motorola Mfg. | 06/04/2010 | 630.2 KB |
| Case Study: Nestlé Malaysia Enhances Customer Service And Sales Performance With Motorola And Newspage Mobility Solution | Nestlé sells an extensive range of grocery products through its own sales force, and distributors' sales forces. In their daily visit to the customers, the sales teams are expected to perform a number of different activities such as market surveys, asset tracking and merchandiser audits to gather customer and market intelligence. By Motorola Mfg. | 06/04/2010 | 574.2 KB |
| Application Note: Leveraging Next Generation Imaging Capabilities In Enterprise Applications | To date, workers outside the four walls have relied heavily on bar code scanning to bring new levels of automation, productivity and accuracy to data capture out in the field. By Motorola Mfg. | 06/04/2010 | 1.06 MB |
| White Paper: Transforming Field Service Operations: Drive Costs Down And Service Levels Up With Mobility | This white paper explores the affect mobility can have on the field service operation, as well as the criteria involved in implementing a mobile field service application and technical considerations in evaluating potential solutions. By Motorola Mfg. | 06/04/2010 | 323.7 KB |
| White Paper: Mobile RFID Readers: Read Points That Move With Your Assets | This white paper will explore this new technology, examining the requirements that drove development, the applications that will benefit from deployment, as well as the value to the enterprise. By Motorola Mfg. | 06/04/2010 | 158.2 KB |
| Case Study: Dunham & Smith Increases Field Productivity By More Than 30 Percent And Improves On Inventory Investment (ROII) By 65 By Using A Highly Collaborative Business Model With The Help Of SC-ID And Motorola | A division of EURPAC Service, Inc., Dunham & Smith Agencies is a selling organization specializing in U.S. military commissaries and convenience stores around the world. The company is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri and has 120 employee-owners and over 800 contract workers. By Motorola Mfg. | 06/04/2010 | 65.7 KB |
| Case Study: Dresser Inc. Enhances Employee And IT Productivity With Motorola Wireless Network | Dresser, Inc. is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of highly engineered equipment and services sold primarily to customers in the energy industry. By Motorola Mfg. | 06/03/2010 | 37.5 KB |
| White Paper: Satellite Navigation Technology And Trends | GPS, officially named NAVSTAR by the US Department of Defense, is a satellite based navigation system with more than 24 satellites. The satellites circle the Earth at a height of 12,000 miles twice a day. By Psion Teklogix Corporation | 05/21/2010 | 398.6 KB |
| Article: Redesigning Your Supply Chain | In recent years, Supply Chain Management has received a lot of attention due to the extensive globalization of the businesses across the sectors. Designing or redesigning the physical Supply Chain to achieve certain business objectives is therefore becoming more and more important. By Milind Patil, Patni Computer Systems Ltd. | 05/17/2010 | 88.1 KB |
| Case Study: Philip Morris Uses Intermec Mobile Computers And Printers For Efficient Sales Management | In 1998, Philip Morris Singapore was established to sell and distribute tobacco products to licensed tobacco retailers in the country. To ensure that all retailers are given the best service and logistical support, the company established a direct sales model for better control of sales and delivery. By Intermec, Inc. | 05/13/2010 | 351.3 KB |
| Case Study: YCH Group Selects Intermec Fixed Vehicle Computer To Improve Supply Chain Management | The logistics and supply chain market has become increasingly competitive in Asia Pacific over the past decade, with multi-nationals, local and specialized industry players all vying for market share. Companies, particularly during the economic downturn of 2008 – 2009, demanded higher levels of reliability and accuracy, whilst also focusing on cost, transit and stock Turn-Around Time (TAT) reductions. By Intermec, Inc. | 05/12/2010 | 555.0 KB |
| Case Study: Intermec Smart Printers Provide Seamless Integration For New Labelling Requirements In New Zealand Kiwifruit Industry | The New Zealand kiwifruit industry is export driven, built on consistent and timely delivery of quality fresh fruit. Europe is one of the key markets for New Zealand-grown kiwi fruit, accounting for over 90 million trays of exported kiwis every year. By Intermec, Inc. | 05/12/2010 | 695.6 KB |
| Case Study: Smart Printers Give RH Foster A Fresh Approach To Food Labeling | Not all the sandwiches RH Foster makes and sells at its chain of Exxon-Mobile convenience stores in Maine are triple deckers, but labeling them for sale was always a laborious three-step process. By Intermec, Inc. | 05/12/2010 | 171.0 KB |
| White Paper: In Transit Visibility: It’s All About Mobility, Visibility And Control | The transportation and logistics industry has been among the hardest hit by recent challenges to the world economy, and the market is poised for increased complexity. By Intermec, Inc. | 05/12/2010 | 156.8 KB |
| WMS In The Cloud: Real-World Business Option Or Just Fluff? | Have you heard all the talk about cloud computing lately? Warehouse management system (WMS) technology is now available in a cloud delivery model from some providers, offering a lower cost, reduced risk option. Not entirely sure what cloud computing is? Wondering if it is a real possibility for your business, or just a fancy new buzzword? Cloud computing for WMS means that your WMS vendor will host the software application and hardware infrastructure for you as an on-demand, scalable and elastic service. It shifts the burden of WMS technology administration to the WMS technology experts. | 05/04/2010 | 205.9 KB |
| White Paper: The Food & Beverage Transportation Management Paradox: The Gap Between Intent And Execution | By RedPrairie Compared with other industries, food and beverage manufacturers and distributors are faced with unique challenges in moving products through the supply chain. Aside from the fact food items are highly perishable, and therefore speed is of the essence, shipments are often temperature-controlled and subject to extensive FDA tracking requirements from original source to final destination. | 05/03/2010 | 400.2 KB |
| Brochure: ClickSoftware ClickRoster | ClickRoster helps organizations optimally staff employee shifts while taking into account organizational and industry rules and regulations; demand coverage; cost; employee working preferences; and the need to balance undesirable shifts such as weekends and vacations among appropriate employees. | 04/29/2010 | 638.5 KB |
| Vendor Insight: Rule The Rules: Take Control Of Regulatory Compliance Requirements | To truly improve the safety and quality of goods and minimize the cost, delays, and risk associated with noncompliance, meeting applicable rules must be incorporated into the very inspiration and design of products that retailers deliver and be a core consideration across their entire supply chain. By Sue Welch, TradeStone Software | 04/21/2010 | 232.1 KB |
| Report: Transportation Management: Lessons from a Difficult Two Years - AMR Report | The past two years have dealt several severe shocks to supply chain operations for many companies. In this special research report by AMR Research, the impact on Transportation Management for Consumer Goods, Food & Beverage and Chemicals industries is explored along with what these industries feel are the key issues and potential solutions going forward. | 03/26/2010 | 502.2 KB |
| White Paper: Transportation Operations: Clear Cash Flow Roadblocks With Enhanced Mobile Document Imaging | This white paper describes how enhanced mobile document imaging processes work, highlights the cash flow, expense reduction and efficiency benefits to scanning invoices and other transportation documents, presents the benefits and drawbacks of different technology and outsourcing options, and explains how enhanced mobile document imaging technology that has recently been commercialized overcomes some limitations of traditional image capture techniques and provides additional benefits. By Intermec | 03/25/2010 | 93.0 KB |
| White Paper: Fleet And Logistics Management | This Pitney Bowes Business Insight white paper examines how fleet and logistics managers are employing location intelligence and high-quality data to realize significant improvements in performance. By Pitney Bowes Business Insight | 03/17/2010 | 942.2 KB |
| White Paper: Looking Beyond Acquisition: Total Cost Of Ownership And The Role Of Enterprise-Class Devices | For companies investing in mobile technology, consumer-grade PDAs and smart phones have undeniable appeal. At one-half to one-third the price of enterprise-grade hardware, buyers may be tempted to accept the high failure rate, thinking they would have to replace a consumer-grade device three times over (which feels unlikely) before they could justify the cost of buying a more rugged, enterprise-class device. By Motorola | 03/10/2010 | 599.6 KB |
| White Paper: Mobile Field Service Best Practices | According to the online IT encyclopedia Whatis.com, a “best practice” is a technique or methodology that, through experience and research, has proven to reliably lead to a desired result. By Motorola | 03/10/2010 | 270.8 KB |