- 21. Your EDI Payments - Exposed
- (EDI)
- ... In addition, there are now trailers sitting in the DC yard waiting to be unloaded. I remember quite a few years ago when I was visiting Burlington Coat Factory's offices one day and when I arrived there ...
- 22. Industrie 4.0 and IoT
- (News)
- The Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology that is affecting firms worldwide. It's a broad concept, though, and the Germans (and other Europeans) do it a bit differently. They call it Industrie 4.0, ...
- 23. Pulling Back the Supply Chain Curtain
- (News)
- Issues related to supply chains have been all over the news recently, whether there's a factory fire or other disaster at foreign manufacturers that damages a known consumer brand.Sometimes you'd rather ...
- 24. Let's End Manual Data Entry
- (EDI)
- ... information about their orders at their fingertips (or smartphones), and complete transparency into their transactions, whether shipped from a factory, DC, or 3rd party. The days of customers accepting ...
- 25. WalMart Supply Chain Surprise
- (News)
- How well do you know your supply chain partners? Are you sure they are who they say? A recent fire at an apparel factory in Bangladesh exposed some shocking news to one of our largest companies. The factory ...
- 26. Labeling Still a Barrier in Some Areas
- (Supply)
- ... the file and then brings it back to the packer, explains Chris Beukenkamp, managing director, Asia, for SPS Commerce. “We have the internet everywhere but you’re lucky if a factory has a single internet ...
- 27. To Showroom, or Not....
- (Retail)
- ... On the second, I viewed the retail furniture shop as selling a distribution point to me- I’d pick the product up there rather than driving 100 miles to get it at the factory. We didn’t use their furniture ...
- 28. What supply-chain decision-makers ought to know about HTML5
- (Logistics)
- As a logistics specialist, your focus needs to be on ensuring a minimum of delay from factory to shelf, a maximum of compliance at the loading dock, retention of your experienced staff, trouble-free account ...
- 29. State of the RFID art: what electronic tracking can do for e-commerce
- (Logistics)
- ... to be on the shelves in a few hours. That's the system working as it's designed to do. The breakdown has to do with what's on that pallet: what if it was packed incorrectly at the factory? How do you control ...
- 30. State of the RFID art: what electronic tracking can do for e-commerce
- (Supply)
- ... to be on the shelves in a few hours. That's the system working as it's designed to do. The breakdown has to do with what's on that pallet: what if it was packed incorrectly at the factory? How do you control ...
- 31. Invest All That Holiday Cash Before It Gets Away
- (Retail)
- ... Another advantage is the e-tailer can offer a wider range of products to their customers that might be complementary to items commonly ordered, but that can be shipped directly from the factory or vendor, ...
- 32. Who pays the price for EDI?
- (EDI)
- ... there are now trailers sitting in the DC yard waiting to be unloaded. I remember quite a few years ago when I was visiting Burlington Coat Factory's offices one day and when I arrived there were trucks ...
- 33. Managing Order Updates
- (EDI)
- ... see this growing to over 50%. Much if this has to do with movement to Factory shipments directly to the end consumer. The change comes when retailers implement E-Commerce. The challenge they were faced ...
- 34. EDI ROI Confusion
- (EDI)
- ... company is part of the E-Commerce boom, having information about your customers order if a factory is shipping from their facility instead of yours; customer satisfaction would be considered a soft dollar ...
- 35. To Outsource or not Outsource... That is The Question
- (Management)
- ... information, wanting carriers to provide invoicing, suppliers to provide orders statuses, Vendor Scorecard or with the growth of E-Commerce and moving to Factory Direct shipping branded pack slips. Trying ...
- 36. To Outsource, or Not…..
- (Management)
- ... contract how they’ll be monitored, what happens if they are not met, what your exit strategy is for unsatisfactory performance, etc. I didn’t have a lot of direct outsourcing experience in my previous ...
- 37. Preparing for your new EDI Implementation
- (EDI)
- ... support a new method of orders or distribution, such as Factory Direct or Cross Dock. Now you’ve realized “how am I going to get this done?” There’s a lot that goes into implementing many of these initiatives. ...
- 38. Ecommerce and EDI - Expanded
- (EDI)
- ... upon receipt and validation of the return the supplier If you’re not in the Ecommerce – Vendor/factory direct space, the processes above can be utilized for return management with your suppliers as well ...
- 39. Ecommerce and EDI
- (Retail)
- ... via their Distribution Centers while others are looking at working with Factory direct shipments to the .com consumer. For those retailers only looking at the DC fulfillment, if you're not already ...
- 40. Trends in 2011 – From ANSI X12 to the Cloud and Beyond
- (Technology)
- ... are looking at offering factory direct to consumer shipments. This will require some facelifts to the electronic purchase orders (POs), advance shipping notices (ASNs) and invoices in the warehouse order ...
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