UK supply chain management software company, Manugistics, has secured a mammoth contract with Safeway in North America. The firm will support 1,368 stores across the US and Canada. Safeway will use Manugistics software to coordinate and streamline...
UPS WWL - a subsidiary of distribution giant UPS - will handle orders for fashion site boo.com, in North America, including supplier shipments, order fulfillment, returns processing and gift wrapping.
Among the activities and services most outsourced by the government are information technology applications and infrastructure support; finance and accounting; human resources and supply chain operations; and staff training and education.
According to James Micali, chairman and president of Michelin North America, the company is experimenting with RFID technologies that allow it to hunt down products in the case of defects or a recall, such as the one issued several years ago by...
Europe is likely to be the key battleground in 2005 as acquirers from Asia and North America lock horns with the domestic consolidators. Lower cost RFID tags have stimulated serious interest in their large-scale use, generating major repercussions...
Unilever IT vice president James Jackson said the standard will deal with the "pressing need" to allow better exchange of data among trading partners and simplify interoperability between different RFID applications, data stores and product...