Woolworths Invests in Supply Chain Improvement Technology

Woolworths, Australia and New Zealand’s largest retail group, invested further in its supply chain redevelopment program by adding Software AG business process management” (BPM) capabilities.
Woolworths is also investing in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) registry and governance platform to underpin its overall corporate move towards SOA.
Software AG’s business activity monitoring (BAM) solution, webMethods Optimize, will [...]

How is the Supply-Chain Council helping companies improve their supply-chain efficiency?

As an independent, not-for-profit, global corporation with membership open to all companies and organizations interested in applying and advancing the state-of-the-art in supply-chain management systems and practices, the Council is interested in providing the widest possible dissemination of the SCOR Model.The wide-spread use of the Model results in better customer-supplier relationships, software systems that can [...]

Why is the supply-chain important?

In years past, manufacturers were the drivers of the supply-chain — managing the pace at which products were manufactured and distributed. Today, customers are calling the shots, and manufacturers are scrambling to meet customer demands for options / styles / features, quick order fulfillment, and fast delivery.Manufacturing quality — a long-time competitive differentiator — is [...]

Finnish Fashion Company Eyes RFID-driven Supply Chain

NP Collection implements RFID technology with UPM Raflatac UHF tags to gain end-to-end visibility from manufacturing through retail point-of-sale.
Tampere, Finland — November 12, 2007 — NP Collection has become the first fashion company in Scandinavia to pilot an RFID-based total supply chain solution.
The pilot started in June 2007 with the aim of improving the efficiency [...]

TCI awarded for Supply Chain Excellence in Knowledge Svcs

Transport Corporation of India Ltd., Asia’s leading integrated supply chain and logistics solutions provider has bagged the prestigious CII Award for Supply Chain Excellence for Excellence in Supply Chain Design, Re-engineering & Delivering value to customers. Amongst a host of contenders, TCI emerged as the winner for Supply Chain Reengineering for one of its key [...]