UT Dallas Supply Chain Center to Host RFID Conference

from utdallas.edu

“Unlocking RFID’s Real Value,” a one-day executive conference that will take place on Wednesday, June 20 at The University of Texas at Dallas School of Management, will bring together industry and research thought leaders on the wide-ranging impact of radio frequency identification, or RFID, technology.

Underwritten and co-sponsored by industry pacesetters like business software company SAP and Texas Instruments, the event was organized by the School of Management’s Center for Intelligent Supply Chain Networks (C4iSN) and the university’s Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science.

CH2M HILL and IDV Solutions to Present Webinar

from dbusinessnews.com

CH2M HILL Enterprise Management Solutions (EMS) together with IDV Solutions will present a Webinar showing how the visualization power of Microsoft Virtual Earth can aid in effective business supply chain management.

What: CH2M HILL and IDV Solutions will introduce their Spatial Supply Chain Management solution, spatial technology application that brings supply-related data ‘to life’ by leveraging the visualization power of Microsoft Virtual Earth and Sharepoint.

Lessons from the Supply Chain Top 25

from techtarget.com

Having a great supply chain means staying lean, keeping costs low and, perhaps most importantly, having a keen feel for fluctuations in demand, the latest review of the supply chains of top-performing organizations finds.

All the members of this year’s AMR Research Supply Chain Top 25 are sensitive to customer demand, analysts with the Boston-based research firm said. And any SAP user hoping to emulate these companies should take a long, hard look at NetWeaver, they added.

Being “demand-driven” can mean different things to different organizations, said Kevin O’Marah, AMR’s senior vice president of strategic research, but for the Top 25, it means reverse-engineering supply chains.