Rave Reviews for VendorNet

| Bill Kuipers

VENDORNET IS A WEB-BASED communications network that manages and tracks the order and delivery cycle between the retailer and the supplier. The company

Systems Integration

| Rama Ramaswami

Three times a year, while conducting our benchmark surveys, we ask our readers how many sales channels they operate and each time, their lists grow longer.

Technophobia?

| Bennett Voyles

Talk to Gus Pagonis, the Sears logistics chief, about the biggest issue in supply chain management, and you might well expect the retired general to tout

Cabin Fever

| MCM staff

THE WOOLLY SHEEP is no mammoth retailer, but from its little corner of Weed, CA, an historic lumber town (pop. 3,100) on the western slopes of Mt. Shasta,

Web-Based RFID: Hype and Glitz?

| MCM staff

TRUE OR FALSE: Like the Mesozoic, the Paleolithic, and the Industrial Era, the Age of the Bar Code has come and gone. The answer: Partially true. You

E-Commerce, Lite

| MCM staff

Psst! Can you keep a secret? E-commerce is making a comeback. That was the pervasive belief at a bellwether show, Etail 2003, which took place in Boston

This Wizard Isn’t Named Harry

| Jeff Morris

ANYONE FAMILIAR WITH a certain (rather popular) series of books will recall the magical map that figures prominently in several of them. It shows not

Made in Buffalo

| D. Douglas Graham

BUFFALO, NY, is known today for Buffalo wings, Lake Erie, and some of the nation’s most punishing winters. Few remember the time when the City on the

Loose Ends

| Rama Ramaswami

Remember the days when fulfilling an order was a simple matter of throwing stuff into a box and taping it shut? Today’s complex fulfillment processes

Vital Signs

| PHILIP GODDEN

Numbers are a significant part of prevention these days after all, people change their entire lifestyles on the basis of numbers such as blood pressure