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• Q&A: Clifford Hallam Healthcare CIO, Ged Halstead

  By Diana Nguyen | 24 April, 2012 09:59

  Clifford Hallam Healthcare (CH2) CIO, Ged Halstead, has been with the healthcare logistics company for about six years. The company has undertaken a 10-year plan to improve its supply chain and warehouse initiatives to overcome data and traceability issues in the medical and pharmaceutical wholesale industry.

• Thursday Grok: Are iPhone 4S sales about to tank?

  By Andrew Birmingham | 10 November, 2011 09:40

  Tracking market share on a weekly or monthly basis, as many product managers do in the IT industry, is a guaranteed first class ticket to the Loon Lounge. You need to ride the helicopter occasionally, take a look through the wide angle lens. Breathe in for seven seconds. Hold for five seconds. Breathe out for seven seconds. Much better. Now panic — iPhone 4S sales may be tanking.

• The cloud solves those lingering supply chain problems

  By Greg Kefer, director of marketing, GT Nexus | 29 October, 2011 07:53

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• Supply chain talent: In demand and out of stock?

  By Thomas Wailgum | 16 November, 2010 05:55

  One critical shortage in the supply chain right now has nothing to do with Apple iPhones, Nintendo Wiis or Zhu Zhu Pets being out of stock for the holidays: It's the people who manage companies' supply chains.

• The trouble with supply-chain best practices

  By Thomas Wailgum | 23 October, 2010 02:39

  Best Practices: It's an often overused term that can apply to literally any decision-making process: parenting quandaries, personal finance questions, buying a house, getting a job, or selecting a puppy breed.

• Chrysler Group upgrades product lifecycle management systems

  By CIO Staff | 27 July, 2010 14:50

  The Chrysler Group, makers of vehicles such as Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep, has signed on with Siemens PLM for its product design and development platform.

• Supply chain helps keep 7-Eleven open 24/7

  By Tim Lohman | 13 January, 2010 11:25

  If your organisation has close to 400 locations across the country and is adding up to 25 new ones a year, you can bet the supply chain a and tight grip on internal IT compliance are important. And indeed it is for 7-Eleven Stores Pty Ltd, the local arm of the global 7-Eleven convenience store behemoth.

• Why the 'Oprah effect' can take down supply chains

  By Thomas Wailgum | 11 September, 2009 06:44

  What company wouldn't want the endorsement of Oprah Winfrey? You get your cupcakes, book or moisturizer talked up on her TV show or, even better, get chosen as a "Favorite Thing."

• Pirates to Worry You: Chinese Manufacturing Partners

  By Thomas Wailgum | 17 April, 2009 09:23

  Somali pirates who brazenly attacked container ships in the Indian Ocean have garnered a lot of recent attention. But for companies that source products from Chinese manufacturing partners, there are even greater and longer-term business risks due to pirating attacks on companies' intellectual property and supply chains.
  

• Microsoft, Infosys focus on supply chain

  By Paul Krill | 30 January, 2009 08:19

  Microsoft and IT services provider Infosys Technologies revealed on Thursday an alliance around improving supply chain visibility and collaboration.