Software selection and implementation services have become big business for consulting firms as well as the software vendors themselves. Even with outside assistance, selecting the right software for your... View More
Radio frequency identification (RID) is one of the most promising and anticipated technologies in recent years. Magazine articles, television shows, analyst papers and the like are frequently trumpeting... View More
Question: What Can Green Do for You? Answer: A The recent announcement that 170 Con-gressional leaders wrote to the Federal Maritime Commission in support of United Parcel Service�s application... View More
The great majority of problems that occur in the distribution cycle are directly related to human error, negligent omissions or just plain lack of knowledge and training. Mistakes and accidents in the... View More
Have you had inquiries about shipping your products internationally? Perhaps you have been thinking, �Now that we have a Web site, we are getting more international calls. I have a good shipping manager.... View More
Customer product returns are becoming more frustrating to both businesses and consumers. Last year�s total number of returned items was 100 million. Forrester Research expects that number to skyrocket... View More
No topic has generated more comments from parcel industry enthusiasts this past year than the ongoing tactics used by carriers to avoid paying out guarantee refunds. And shippers are getting madder by... View More
Congratulations! You�ve just landed your first big customer! No more selling to just the �mom-and-pop� stores � this is really going to give your product national exposure and take you to the big time.... View More
Today�s world of electronics shipping is far different from decades past. Order and delivery cycles have been reduced to days, not weeks or months. A typical manufacturing scenario goes like this: A factory... View More
Although using overseas vendors and manufacturing plants has its drawbacks � more languages, distance and complexity, just to name a few � the savings and advantages that can be attained from doing so... View More
Ergonomics is the practice of ensuring that the workplace properly accommodates the physical needs of the employees assigned to perform their job tasks safely at their assigned workstations. A program... View More
Outsourcing has been around a long time. Practices in Europe and Japan seemed to have started the outsourcing interest. These examples reflect historical impacts of regulation and tradition. Europeans... View More
Regardless of the industry, competition on the Internet can be fierce. To keep ahead of the competition, many successful companies are finding they need to reinvent themselves, widening the scope of their... View More
Traditionally, there have been a series of difficult issues associated with having contracts online. Last year, the U.S. Congress passed a new law known as the �E-SIG� law, which endorses online contracts,... View More
Financial transactions can now be conducted in the blink of an eye. But the technology that has made us so efficient is also raising serious privacy concerns. The media is flooded with stories of businesses... View More
Dairyland Power is a wholesale power supply cooperative headquartered in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The Publication Services department originally provided support to internal and wholesale power customers... View More
As we go to press, the commercial small package carriers are announcing their new 2002 rates. And in their infinite wisdom, the carriers have deemed that you, the shipper, should benefit from these higher... View More
Lift trucks can be tremendously productive. But they can also be tremendously dangerous. According to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), about 95,000 workers are injured in lift truck... View More
Ever wonder how certain universally accepted sizes, practices or specifications got to be universally accepted? It didn�t just happen by coincidence. In the world of distribution, universal applications... View More
When one of Europe�s largest postal services in the industrialized world required an identification/tracking system to track thousands of mailbags and envelopes, it chose the Escort Memory Systems� FastTrack... View More
