HELP DESK

| MCM staff

The worldwide market for offshore IT services will grow from nearly $7 billion in revenue in 2003 to $17 billion by 2008, reports IDC.

Manual to Automatic

| Barbara Arnn

RETURNS MEAN TROUBLE and expense at either end of the supply chain, and the larger the business, the larger the potential headache of returns. Just ask

Waaay Beyond the Call

| MCM staff

IT’S BEEN YEARS since your call center morphed from a simple phone-based organization into a multichannel, multimedia, multitasking behemoth. And you’re

All in the Family

| MCM staff

OH, TO BE VIVITEK! A start-up of Sun Chemical Corporation, the fast-growing printing supply business has seen its revenue grow from zero to millions in

Backed Up

| MCM staff

The holidays are over, and the returns are flooding in. But there are ways to keep those periwinkle turtlenecks from choking your warehouse, says the

Complex Problem

| Rama Ramaswami

With so much emphasis on shaving inventory to the bone, having ready access to stock when it is needed is of paramount importance for merchants. Third-party

Value Pack

| Barbara Arnn

IF YOU ARE LOOKING for value-added packaging services, you probably know exactly what you mean, but who else does? There seem to be almost as many interpretations

Safe and Sound?

| MCM staff

Three years after the worst terrorist attack on U.S soil, our panic may have subsided, but our vigilance shouldn’t slacken. Although another assault could

Customer Service

| Rama Ramaswami

There’s very little the world can throw at U.S. consumers to keep them from spending money, a reporter for CNN/Money wrote in February 2003. Consumers

WIRELESS PICKING NOW OR LATER?

| Debra Ellis

Order picking is the most labor-intensive function in the distribution center. It requires more skill than other positions and commands a higher pay scale.