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Hours of Service (HOS) changes announced in December 2011 are scheduled to go into effect on July 1, 2013. As this date gets closer, here is a summary of the impending changes: Within the 34 hour restart, a driver will only be able to use the restart once a week and Similarly, the 34 hour restart will need to include two 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. time periods.

Smith & Associates, the largest independent distributor of electronic components, recently announced new information from its Supply Chain Survey and Report. The latest results confirm the prominence of mobile, cloud and social media technologies as those that will continue to most influence the supply chain in the coming years.

A recent survey conducted by Smith & Associates provided significant insights into key issues affecting the semiconductor and electronics supply chain. The survey focused on top industry challenges faced by respondents; issues included counterfeiting, climate change, and various supply chain impacts.

In the Operations and Supply Chain Management Career Paths and Patterns report, APICS The Association for Operations Management provides a collection of more than 6,000 operations and supply chain management professionals’ experiences, career directions, and educational achievements into one document to help you compare your path, consider your next steps, and establish milestones.

Since 50+% of warehouse labor resources are typically involved in picking, packing and shipping outbound orders, it usually makes sense to focus on these operations first. Now may be the time to revisit some basic first principles to maximizing warehouse efficiency. With this entry, we focus on 5 ways to improve picking operations.

The Third Annual Q1 2013 DAT Carrier Benchmark Survey drew 514 responses from DAT customers, including carriers, owner-operators, private fleets and asset-based brokers. This report is based on responses of the for-hire carriers and owner-operators only.

Innovating and optimizing the value chain is vital to success in today’s global economy. It enables companies to make informed and profitable decisions, monitor the impact of those decisions, and rapidly respond to the unexpected changes common in a volatile business environment.

We call this progress the Product Value Chain, an integrated business model powered by Oracle that offers rich new strategies for executives to collectively leverage enterprise Agile PLM, Product Data Hub, Enterprise Data Quality for Products, and other industry leading Oracle applications to achieve further incremental value.

Oracle’s Value Chain Planning solutions can be deployed as standalone applications – enabling you to solve your most important problems first – or integrated with Oracle E-Business suite, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne or other ERP solutions, delivering a rapid ROI in all environments.

Your logistics network is continuously changing and is more complex than ever before. The need to control costs, meet sustainability goals and satisfy internal and external customer demands requires new thinking.

Jim Tompkins, CEO of Tompkins International and noted supply chain expert, will reveal how retailers can tackle roadblocks and ensure successful strategies at the 2013 National Retail Federation (NRF) Global Supply Chain Summit opening keynote on May 20.

Demand Management’s announcement comes at a time when more and more software providers are allowing customers to access their solutions in the cloud. By offering its integrated supply chain planning suite on a subscription basis, Demand Management enables companies to get up and running on the platform as quickly and affordably as possible.

Nate Silver’s best-selling book The Signal and The Noise – Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t is about Big Data. The lessons in our white paper – which draw their inspiration from The Signal and The Noise - will change how you think about forecasting.

UPS announced it will purchase Hungary-based pharmaceutical logistics company, CEMELOG Zrt, as part of its ongoing global growth and investment strategy.

In a presentation on its first-ever annual analyst day today, Urban Outfitters made an announcement: The chain, CIO Calvin Hollinger said, will switch from cash registers to Apple products. "Sales people will have iPod touches," Joe Weistenthal reports, "and cash registers are being phased out in favor of iPads on a swivel."

At the end of 2012, GSCS had delivered significant cost savings to Weathermatic, including reducing Weathermatic’s costs by 24% within the first three weeks of engagement, and radically improved supply chain processes.

Starmount software solutions help retailers optimize the shopper experience, and leading retailers are using our products to bring the richness of the Web and the power of mobile into the store to enhance customer engagement and increase sales.

Inspiration often comes from the unique vision that a leader brings to the organization. The vision gets energized and transmitted to those who follow. There is an expectation of achievement, of success.

Next Generation Logistics, Inc., (NGL) a leading provider of managed freight services, TMS software, and supply chain consulting announces achieving a quarter-century servicing the supply chain industry.

This paper discusses the business realities that drive DC design today. It examines how sensitivity analysis, modeling, and scenario planning can provide new design insights for the DC. In particular, it focuses on how such changes affect material handling equipment design and IT architecture within the warehouse.