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Of all the Hackett Key Issues Studies conducted in the last five years, the 2013 edition shows the greatest year over- last change in priorities for both performance and capability-related issues. As companies adapt their operating models to the globalized business environment, business support functions are impacted in many ways.

This is Norfolk Southern’s fifth annual corporate sustainability report. It discloses the railroad’s significant environmental, economic, and social impacts to provide stakeholders a way to assess our commitment to corporate sustainability.

The transportation system that supports the movement of freight across America is facing a crisis. Our highways, railroads, ports, and waterways require investment well beyond current levels to maintain – much less improve – their performance. Millions of jobs and our nation’s long-term economic health are at risk.

In this first of a three-part report, Transportation Reboot describes what is changing in America and why those changes demand new transportation capacity. Future segments address the capacity increases required to meet the burgeoning freight demand, and to access the economic might of rural America.

Rural states are essential to the nation’s success, not only to meet the needs of their own citizens, but also to maintain their part of the national network on which the U.S. economy depends. Highways across rural states also serve as a “bridge” for traffic between population centers for people and freight.

This Expert Guide, we will help you understand the difference between grayscale and color vision technology, which applications are best solved with color vision systems and which types of color tools are used for which applications.

Brick & mortar retailers in the grocery, mass and specialty categories have weathered tumultuous years with decreasing sales and increasing pressure from online peers. While e-commerce is not a fading trend, there exists widespread opportunity for improved performance of retail supply chains which will help brick & mortars compete in the new retail landscape.

The availability of downstream data has never been higher, but the efforts to use it are stalled. The answer lies in rethinking processes end-to-end to use the data. The answers fly in the face of traditional thinking and will require active stewardship by manufacturing leaders that understand why it is important to drive outside-in processes.

Automated storage and retrieval systems, such as vertical and horizontal carousels and vertical lift modules (VLMs), can increase productivity by 2/3 or more.

Choosing the right technology for your fulfillment operation is priority number one in achieving your business goals and gaining competitive advantage in your marketplace.

If your distribution center is stuck in low gear, conducting manual picking or fighting underwhelming pick rates, consider the benefits of installing picking technology to better match your order fulfillment needs.

Brad Kerr, Senior Director, Supply Chain Management Applications, Oracle Corporation and Michael Pearcy, Senior Manager, Capgemini discuss fulfillment best practices as well as case studies featuring companies that have successfully deployed Oracle supply chain solutions to address their distributed order management and fulfillment needs.

As a transaction-oriented system, it seems only natural that ERP would have a major impact on the day-to-day activities of finance executives. This Analyst Insight examines the challenges facing finance executives today, and the ways in which ERP is helping them to overcome these challenges.

Top ERP performers report double digit cost savings as well as significant reduction in cycle times and improvements in customer retention and percentage of complete and on-time deliveries. Yet the average ERP implementation in wholesale distribution fails to produce anywhere near the results

The Exacta warehouse management system (WMS) provides you with a suite of software applications that enable you to customize and view your warehouse system in ways that best benefit your business requirements.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based Furniture Outlets wanted to streamline processes in its 550,000-square-foot warehouse and strengthen the back end of the business to increase throughput and decrease cost associated with the supply chain. So the company turned to RedPrairie for a warehouse management solution.

When one of the largest off-price apparel store chains in the U.S. approached RedPrairie, the retailer’s management team had some very specific goals in mind. The retailer wanted to eliminate complexity from its store communications and employ targeted task management to drive sales, employee satisfaction and consequent productivity.

Prior to RedPrairie, Furniture Outlets was managing its warehouse with an RF tracking system, and they needed full warehouse management system capabilities to gain efficiencies and accuracy. The solution lacked directed putaway, so tasks were linear and productivity was affected.

Marriott deployed RedPrairie’s VLM (Visual Labor Management) solution in 2000 at 262 full service properties and in 2006 rolled out RedPrairie’s Workforce Management Suite at 500 select service properties.

At ADS we differentiate ourselves based on the technology and services we can offer our customers. Our highly automated approach depends on the flexibility and versatility of the RedPrairie WMS - Paul Peavey, Director of Operations, ADS Gaffney Logistics Center.