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 […]

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 […]

While Business Intelligence (BI) has delivered powerful results for many companies over the past decade, the majority of applications focused on marketing, sales, and customer and financial analysis, and less on operations and supply chain activities. However, as supply chain management becomes an increasingly important, strategic and competitive factor for many companies, the tide is now […]