RFID: Are We There Yet?

| Rama Ramaswami

As a kid, you asked Are we there yet? over and over during long trips in the family car. The parental answer was usually a vague platitude designed to

PCI Pain

| Mark Del Franco

To protect against identity theft and security breaches, Visa and MasterCard have joined forces to enact stringent credit-card security requirements The

LEAVING HOME

| MCM staff

Three days after Valentine’s Day, in the middle of a typical New England winter, The Boston Globe reached out and punched many of us Vermonters in the

All in One

| D. Douglas Graham

Electronics Line USA is a manufacturer/marketer of high-tech security surveillance equipment and related apparatus, with offices and distribution operations

Back-end benchmarks

| Rama Ramaswami

Every couple of years, we find that we have to revise our for benchmarks. Order fulfillment practices change far more rapidly today than they did even

Training Day

| Karen Berman

EDITOR’S NOTE This is the second installment of a three-part series on picking technologies and strategies. Part I was published in the April 2005 issue

Returns Engagement

| Margery Weinstein

Catalogers know that a customer making a return isn’t happy with the product. But if you can quickly and efficiently process the return, you may be able

Home, Sweet Home

| Barbara Arnn

Anecdotally, it appears that a sort of informal backlash against offshore agents has resulted in lower customer satisfaction ratings for some companies.

Care Package

| Bennett Voyles

Unless you ship jewelry or pharmaceuticals, package security probably doesn’t rank too high on your list of worries. Maybe once in a while a packer gets