From RFID News: “Retail behemoth Wal-Mart will require its Chinese suppliers to use RFID tagging to label shipments as of January 2009. Stricter requirements began to be introduced in October of this year, but by next year, the standards will effect all of Wal-Mart’s more than 1,000 Chinese suppliers. RFID tagging is expected to cost […]

The North American automotive industry has been sideswiped by a convoy of unexpected challenges in the past year. In the dramatically shifting North American automotive market, even the most hard-nosed OEMs have learned there’s a lot more value to be gained from suppliers than just lower price and that a healthy supply base means a […]

News from Manufacturing Business Technology,  GE has launched Aravo SIM (supplier information management) to power and transform GE’s own SIM processes across all of its business units worldwide.
Aravo SIM is a Web-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that will allow GE to automate and streamline supplier information-related business processes, improve supplier data quality, drive compliance, and reduce […]