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RedPrairie SaaS WMS RFP Template

Cloud WMS is a new approach to Enterprise computing. It will enable companies to move away from excel, custom databases and legacy WMS technologies to create better working relationships between supplier and customer. The decision to manage inventory in the cloud can be strategic initiative for your company’s future supply chain success. The 2012 WMS RFP Template is an important tool that empowers you to objectively determine requirements and can help you select a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) WMS vendor. This RFP template includes detailed best practices from companies and logistic professionals who have implemented both Tier I and SaaS WMS.

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Improced Transparency, Visibility and Compliance for Imperial Tobacco Group by Using MIC az A Euroean-Wide Customs Platform separator

Imperial Tobacco Group (ITG) is a worldwide leading tobacco company with a unique portfolio of brands and products across all tobacco categories. Traditionally ITG’s business focus was on UK, only. With the acquisition of Reemtsma in 2002 and Altadis in 2008 ITG became a global player.

The Importance of 'Critical' Spares to Your Business separator

Consider this scenario, you are in a breakdown situation, a pallet has collapsed and damaged a gearbox on a critical conveyor line. It is a peak production period and there is an important sales promotion in the stores, you can’t miss this planned shipment. Your technicians have stripped down the conveyor, they’ve identified the damaged part and gone to the spare parts store to retrieve the replacement. However, where a fully serviceable replacement gearbox should be, there is an empty space on the shelf.

Busting some myths about sales forecasting separator

Many companies see sales forecasting as difficult, time consuming, unreliable and, as a result, best avoided. Given the right set of tools however you’ll soon realise that forecasting isn’t rocket science. It’s a straight-forward and really quite simple process that will provide you with invaluable business intelligence and save you money. The biggest obstacles to developing proper forecasting that companies typically face are their own preconceptions and attitudes towards it. So it’s time to explode a few of the myths surrounding sales forecasting!

The Logistics Technology Platform separator

We all know that crude oil is a finite natural resource, and as with any commodity, fuel prices increase and decrease according to demand. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (www.eia.gov), both the gradual improvement in the U.S. and world economies in 2010 and ongoing political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, since early 2011 (the source of about one third of the world’s oil production), are contributing to the ongoing increases in crude oil and gasoline prices. Additionally, the latest findings from the International Energy Association (www.iea.org) show conventional oil supplies will plateau by 2020, resulting in a sharp and steady rise in prices as demand from both developed and developing countries grows.

Five tips for the fluctuating market situation separator

Economic prospects have deteriorated since the summer and the future outlook has been further clouded. Some of our customers have turned to me for my own views on the development of trade and market conditions. Instead of making guesses about economic trends, I have advised our customers to develop their own supply chain and purchasing and inventory control so that damages can be minimised –even in rapid economic swings. In practice, this means focusing on business intelligence as well as determining and changing the dynamics of your own supply chain.