Industry News Archives

• NYC Building Up Fashion’s Future – WWD - Nov 2, 2010
• RFID Gets Industry Support - WWD Nov 2, 2010
• RSR Research: The Disruption of Buy Anywhere, Get Anywhere – Nov 1, 2010
• Realizing Hidden Business Opportunities, How Conair is revolutionizing its supply chain and import security with EPC-enabled RFID
• Retailers, Manufacturers Unite on Item Level RFID – Penton Insight – Nov 1, 2010
• Ready (Finally) for Item-Level Deployment - NRF Stores Nov 2010
• Nov 1 2010 Press Release Item-Level RFID Final
• Item-Level RFID is Bullish Economic Indicator – MHL 10-25-10
• The Indispensible Supply Chain Leader – Supply Chain Management Review Sept/Oct 2010
• Global Commerce Has Benefited from an Efficient Currency Trading Market – Forex Traders – Sept 16, 2010
• Why Karl Lagerfeld’s Masstige Line Can Democratize Fashion While Maximizing Profits – Sept 9, 2010
• Shortages of trucks and truck drivers stall product deliveries – Sept 9, 2010
• Major Chinese fashion brand Jossy Jo eliminates counterfeits with RFID – Sept 9, 2010
• Chinese Mills in South Africa Shut in Wage Dispute - Sept 8, 2010
• Talbots drops; Staples, Van Heusen lead sector up – Sept 8, 2010
• Warnaco Appoints Helen McCluskey Chief Operating Officer - Sept 8, 2010
• Cap-and-Trade Is Beginning to Raise Some Concerns – Aug 29, 2010
• Item-Level RFID Helps Serge Blanco See Big Savings In The Distribution Center – Aug 27, 2010
• Preparing for the 2010 Retail Peak Season: Overcoming the Past and Meeting New Challenges – Aug 17, 2010
• China suppliers up ante on product safety – Aug 12, 2010
• More news on the WalMart inbound freight program. Some very transferrable points to most any supply chain.
• WSJ – Wal-Mart Radio Tags To Track Clothing
• Kimberly Clark’s Global Supply Chain Transformation
• May 4, 2010: Meg Major Promoted to Editor in Chief of Progressive Grocer - Full article
• China port traffic declined in November - CBN Newswire - Read full article
• Whitepaper - "The GS1 US™ Visibility Framework - A Standards-based Approach for Identifying, Capturing and Sharing Information throughout the Value Chain" Full article
• VICS has recently certified Accenture Supply Chain Academy - Recently announced the Accenture Supply chain Academy has been accredited by VICS. Joe Andraski, President and CEO of VICS, states "I feel that both VICS and the Supply Chain Academy have a lot in common, as both are doing ground-breaking work in supply chain. I therefore believe that a close collaboration between VICS and the SCA can bring many benefits for all parties involved" Learn More
• GXS and Inovis Sign Definitive Merger Agreement - Merger will Create the World's Leading and Most Diversified B2B Service Provider - Read More
• Packaging Sustainability Metrics: Guidelines on the role of packaging in sustainability, Presented at the Global CEO Forum New York, 17th June 2009 Read More
• VICS Launches New Education Series On Vendor Alignment And Compliance - Read press release
• Li & Fung: A Factory Sourcer Shines - BusinessWeek.com - Full article
• P&G's leadership machine - The consumer goods giant has a proven formula to nurture top talent. Source: cnnmoney.com - Read Full article
• Material Concepts Announces Availability of New DuPont™ Tyvek® Vivia and Tyvek® TY31™ Print Media for Wide Format Printing- prweb.com - Full article
• New data shows out-of-stocks taking a bigger toll on cold-vault beverage sales, by Steve Holtz, CSP Daily News - Read full article
• Total RFID revenue to exceed $5.6 billion in 2009, ITWorld.com
• VICS, GS1 Canada And GS1 US Launch Empty Miles Service, Source Food Logistics Feb 2009
• VICS launches Empty Miles Service- Visit www.emptymiles.org for more information.
• The State of Sustainability: Will you Lead or Lag in 2009? By Kimberly Knickle, IDC - Read full article
• No crap - It's Diesel - By James A. Cooke - A two-year-old biotech company in California has developed a genetically engineered microbe that excretes diesel - Read full article
• Corporate Hell Raiser - The weekend interview with Carl Icahn Nov 15/16 2008 - Read full article
• Top Story on the Supply Chain Digest website - Thinking about the Consumer Goods to Retail Supply Chain - Joe Andraski is cited by Dan Gilmore, Editor-in-Chief. Read full article
• Financial Times: Oil prices will rebound to more than $100 a barrel as soon as the world economy recovers, and will exceed $200 by 2030, the International Energy Agency will say in its flagship report to be published next week. The developed world's energy watchdog has doubled its long-term price expectation from last year's $108 a barrel for 2030 and assumes oil prices will rebound from today's $60-$70 a barrel to trade, in real terms adjusted by inflation, at an average of more than $100 a barrel from 2008 to 2015. Read full article
• VICS and CSCMP publish the Phase 1 findings of the Item-Level RFID research conducted by the University of Arkansas
• 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
• IKEA Canada to Reduce Energy Consumption by 25%, DDIMagazine.com
• Turning Over A New Leaf Just Got A Little Bit Easier - Margo Oge, Director, Office of Transportation and Air Quality at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, explains the program, and shows a few highlights from the new PSA campaign. Today, being green and making a better choice for the environment just got a little easier. Thanks to the Environmental Protection Agency's new SmartWay brand, consumers now have a credible source to go to for answers about their car's environmental performance. By buying a SmartWay certified car sport utility vehicle or light truck, Americans will know that these vehicles are strong environmental performers relative to other vehicles. A SmartWay certified vehicle designation is determined by how a vehicle scores using EPA air pollution standards and other criteria. Specifically on EPA's Green Vehicle Guide, the scores are based on emission levels (the Air Pollution score) and fuel economy values (the Greenhouse Gas score). The SmartWay Leaf identifies vehicles that score a at least 6 out of a possible 10 on each of the Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Scores and achieve a combined score of at least 13 out of 20. We encourage you to share this with family, friends and colleagues, and to visit www.epa.gov/smartway/vehicles/smartway-certified.htm and click on the "Green Vehicle Guide" to compare fuel consumption and greenhouse gas scores, as well as help ensure that the car you are buying is as environmentally friendly as possible. Turning over a new leaf doesn't have to be hard, and today, it just got a little bit easier.
• China's Big Recycling Market Is Sagging, March 12, 2009, by Dan Levin, New York Times
• Carbon Management Hype and Realty - Paper by Supply Chain Consulting LLC
• The Future Supply Chain 2016: Serving Consumers in a Sustainable Way - Global Commerce Initiative's - Read the full story
• The expanding U.S. ethanol sector is stimulating demand for corn, but alternatives to corn may dampen that demand. - Ethanol Reshapes the Corn Market - Read the full story
• SmartWay Transport is the USEPA’s flagship program to increase the energy efficiency of the freight delivery system in order to reduce blackhouse gas emissions and air pollution.
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Partnership Overview
  • Greening Transportation & Logistics…
• 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.
  • Supply Chain Talent: State of the Discipline
  • Industry Popularity for SC Talent: Top Tier
  • Supply Chain Talent: Survey Results
• 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.
  • About the R. Hadly Waters Supply Chain Symposium ( April 24, 2008)
  • Alan Yasalonis presentation
• 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
• Pace-Setting Zara Seeks More Speed To Fight Its Rising Cheap-Chic Rivals Read full article (Wall Street Journal, Feb 20, 2008)