vicslogo header img
  
Home arrow Press Room arrow Latest Industry News

The Latest News

  • Fashion Heavyweights Shut India Offices Timberland closed India sourcing and now Liz Claiborne is considering doing the same, but retailers like Wal-Mart and Target have been scaling up. Read full article
    Business Week, July 31, 2008
  • Thinking About Tomorrow – Seven tips for making forecasting more effective In a recent column, Dr. Chaman Jain of St John’s University and Mark Covas of Procter & Gamble offer seven keys to achieving improved forecasting results, with a big focus on collaboration. Read full article
  • VICS and CSCMP publish the Phase 1 findings of the Item-Level RFID research conducted by the University of Arkansas
  • Playing Chicken with Trade - Read full article
  • The Real Question - Should Oil be Cheap? Expensive oil hurts, but there's a business case to be made for a floor under the price of crude. Provided by businessweek.com.
  • Gas Prices Boost E-Commerce, July 25, 2008 by eMarketer - Read full article
  • SubCon Industries, the vocational training division of The Rehabilitation Center, is a unique, mission-driven, third-party service company providing employment opportunities for 200 people with disabilities. View Presentation
  • AMR Research, in conjunction with a subgroup of the Supply Chain Council, has surveyed almost 200 organizations to assess the state of the supply chain management discipline, identify key requirements to support a demand-driven curriculum, and construct the first functional talent attribute model, which will serve to align industry and academia in generating standardized and more universal supply chain programs.
  • Transportation accounts for 66% of U.S. oil use — mainly in the form of gasoline. Luckily, there are plenty of ways to improve gas mileage, to find out more about their work. - Driving and Car Maintenance
  • Catching the Green Wave interview by Andrew Winston . Succeeding at green business isn't just about rolling out eco-friendly products, says Andrew Winston. It's also about finding cleaner, greener ways to get those products to customers, to find out more about their work. - DC Velocity
  • Getting merchandize to store quicker, and reducing inventory costs is on every retailers to-do list. ERS caught up with VICS’ President & CEO, Joe Andraski, to find out more about their work. - Extended Retail Solutions US Edition
  • Containerized Freight Rate Trends - Read full article
  • The Robert D. Pashek Award is given annually to the logistics professional that has made significant contributions to the practice and development of the logistics and transportations disciplines. The award is named for the late Robert D. Pashek, associate dean emeritus of The Smeal College and a man instrumental in the development at Penn State University.
  • Pilgrim's Pride, facing exorbitant costs for corn and soybean meal, will cut weekly chicken processing by 5% at its plants, the company said Monday. The cutback will begin in June. The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires
  • Mars, Bufffet Team Up in Wrigley Bid - $22 Billion Deal Would Reshape Candy Industry - Wall Street Journal April 28, 2008
  • Pilgrim's Pride to reduce chicken processing - Pilgrim's Pride, facing exorbitant costs for corn and soybean meal, will cut weekly chicken processing by 5% at its plants, the company said Monday. The cutback will begin in June. The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires
  • Hawaii starts food supply RFID pilot - Hawaii's Department of Agriculture is starting a three-year pilot project to track its produce along the supply chain. The new project will use RFID technology and start by tracking the state's tomatoes. Yahoo!/Associated Press
  • The two sides of the ethanol debate - Many food experts are blaming government policies on biofuels for driving up food prices across the globe, but other factors such as drought and economic growth should also be considered as factors in this trend, writes New York Times columnist Andrew Martin. Some experts believe that although biofuels are not fully accountable for mounting food costs, policies related to alternative fuels should be reviewed to address global food security, Martin says. The New York Times
  • Survey: Online sales to grow this year according to Shop.org - Read full article
  • Global Trade Exchange (GTX) cancelled - click here to read about it
  • Demand Driven Supply Chains – The Evolution of Customer Demand by Inez Blackburn, Market Techniques and Innovations, Markettechniques.com To get the oil price, please enable Javascript.
  • Pace-Setting Zara Seeks More Speed To Fight Its Rising Cheap-Chic Rivals Read full article (Wall Street Journal, Feb 20, 2008)

The Latest "Green" News

 

Related Videos

  • RFID: The Future Begins Now - Watch
  • RFID: In Healthcare - Watch
  • RFID: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Watch