super balance

| MCM staff

All Superman had to do was jump over tall buildings. You, by contrast, must boost your facility’s operating performance, reduce costs, increase reliability,

Opinion & Response

| MCM staff

Down on UPS Over the years we have heard and seen how the United Parcel Service seems to do everything it can to show its lack of concern and sheer disdain

No Network Nirvana

| Barbara Arnn

Venture capital has gone underground, revolutionary new technological developments are unlikely in the near future, and the compelling issues for businesses

Easy Rider

| Jeff Morris

Consider the Never, perhaps, has a single letter had such dramatic ups and downs in popularity and reputation. Not long ago, this fifth letter of the

Mad Hatter’s Tea Party

| MCM staff

It’s no coincidence that several articles in this issue deal with the importance of the relationship between retailers and customers, whether that relationship

Lock, Dock, and Barrel

| MCM staff

The lockout of Pacific ports that the Pacific Maritime Association initiated during the last weekend in September underlined the rather downbeat tone

A Chorus Line

| David Pluviose

We have to do the global standards, said Procter & Gamble Co. CIO Stephen N. David during his keynote address at this year’s Frontline Solutions Supply

Supply + Demand

| Rama Ramaswami

The newfound glamour of supply chain management extends to retail technology as well. In a recent benchmark study titled Global CIO Outlook for Retail

opinion & response

| MCM staff

Stop Cloning Around Bravo! I just read the August editor’s letter Attack of the Clones, and I couldn’t agree with you more! We have spoken with many catalogers

Paper Prices Creeping Up

| Shayn Ferriolo

The days of rock-bottom paper prices may be over. In early August, most of the major paper companies, including International Paper, Stora Enso North