- 21. KFC Illustrates the Importance of Logistics
- (News)
- Kentucky Fried Chicken’s (KFC) U.K. chicken disaster highlights how large a part logistics play in a business success or failure, reports Forbes. KFC is blaming a broken logistics system for the debacle ...
- 22. Managing the supplier relationship makes business better
- (Retail)
- ... incident that happens at a critical time and extrapolate the failure across the entire history of the relationship. But individual incidents should be added to the pool of historical data and compared ...
- 23. 4 Easy Replenishment Ideas that Adapt to the Digital Age
- (News)
- ... death of 'brick and mortar' point to the failure of retail technologies to adapt the digital age. Legacy forecasting and replenishment systems do not have the technology needed to adapt fast enough to the ...
- 24. eCommerce Risks
- (News)
- ... and their tendency to change suppliers at the hint of a service failure.According to Hailey Lynne McKeefry on the EBN site, if you blow a delivery date or experience a stock-out, you lose a customer. Check ...
- 25. New ERP Rankings
- (News)
- A big consultancy has issued ERP rankings with a surprising name at the top. In a recent interview on the Diginomica site,Jon Reed discusses the rankings and also presents some surprising information about ...
- 26. Fail Quickly Already!
- (News)
- At a recent conference sponsored by Gartner, Alexa Cheater heard supply chain executives talk about specific failures they've been exposed to and how they were related to the concept of speed.Doing things ...
- 27. Big Data Rules in the Supply Chain
- (Management)
- We're constantly seeing new uses for big data. So much so that it's not even necessary to describe what the term means. Is the use of huge amounts of amorphous data making us better at our work, or is ...
- 28. IoT Security Failures
- (News)
- All the great things promised by the Internet of Things (IoT) come with a cost. Wired magazine has collected a few highly publicized examples of failures due to security issues.Security is a known risk ...
- 29. Is SaaS Based EDI a Cloud Service?
- (Technology)
- ... that must comply with data privacy regulations. "It is important for companies to base their decision for SaaS and/or hosting on their strategic business objectives," says Beck. "Failure to do so – and ...
- 30. Fearless Predictions for 2016
- (Management)
- ... Hope they get those issues worked out soon! So, what’ll be important to us in 2016? It’s pretty easy to predict that the hot topics from 2015 will continue forward. I don’t think failure is an option ...
- 31. The Supply Chain and Black Friday
- (News)
- Well, Black Friday is already behind us for this year, and the supply chain is ready and able to take credit for its successes and failures. The planning and execution that have preceded it should result ...
- 32. Spreadsheets Don't Make the Cu
- (News)
- When you can't scale supply to meet demand, is it a failure of your planning process, or something deeper? It could be the timeliness of your information that's at fault, according to Gary Meyers on the ...
- 33. Supply chain visibility is key to success
- (Supply)
- ... or negative, like breakdowns or failure modes.” Who should care about supply chain visibility, anyway? In Jones’ mind, the pressing issue for players in the supply chain is not who should care about ...
- 34. EDI Modifications and Updates
- (EDI)
- ... of orders, that need to be properly translated to your company’s internal formats. Errors in translation, even minor ones, can cause failures, like a failure to automatically send required documents back ...
- 35. The Omnichannel Inflection Point
- (News)
- Throughout history, the ability to adapt to change has often meant the difference between success and failure. Supply chains are subject to the similar pressures regarding change, and in today's environment ...
- 36. Should EDI be outsourced?
- (EDI)
- ... a company can lose market share and even be penalized for missing contractual obligations for the late or missed delivery of goods and services. In fact, there are multiple points of potential failure ...
- 37. Big Data Fail?
- (News)
- As with any relatively new 'hot' technology, we've seen a few reports of unsuccessful Big Data projects. Is the problem on the implementation side, the tech side, or elsewhere?In an article on the ReadWrite ...
- 38. Target's Problems in Canad
- (News)
- As you may have heard, Target is closing up shop in Canada. Sounds like a failure to execute on a few of the basics was one of the main culprits.When you're a retailer and you can't keep products on the ...
- 39. Survey: What Causes EDI Document Failures
- (EDI)
- We need your opinion please. The survey below includes 5 questions and should take you about 3 minutes to complete. We are interested in understanding the most frequent causes of failure for EDI documents. ...
- 40. ASN Gaps
- (News)
- Those of us familiar with the Advance Ship Notice (ASN), the EDI 856 transaction, realize it's not perfect. If you're depending on it to trigger financial transactions, it may not be a good fit.Jason Busch, ...
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