• CIOs need to check security of supply chains: ISF

  By Hamish Barwick | 20 April, 2012 09:21

  Chief information officers should begin asking serious questions about the security of their supply chain partners because of the risk of backdoor attacks, according to the International Security Forum (ISF).

• How to successfully bring business into IT

  By Martha Heller | 29 February, 2012 07:03

  The widespread glee over consumer technology has created your most demanding customers yet. The ease with which business leaders can adopt Cloud services means less clout for your centralized IT structure. And the aging IT workforce means fewer bodies to do the additional work. Masochist that you are, no doubt, you love these new challenges, but you still need tools for dealing with them.

• SEC investigating past JDA's past fiscal years, stock falls

  By Chris Kanaracus | 02 February, 2012 04:13

  JDA Software's stock is taking a hit after the supply-chain application vendor said Tuesday that it experienced a loss in the fourth quarter and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is requesting information about past fiscal years.

• Smart robot picks up three logistics awards for Nestlé Australia

  By Georgina Swan | 06 December, 2011 14:03

  Smart robotic technology has helped Nestlé overcome the occupational health and safety issues of manually handing about four million cases of products in its consumer food and beverage, food service and pet food businesses.

• Software vendor says partnership with SAP led to stolen trade secrets

  By Chris Kanaracus | 23 November, 2011 06:26

  Former SAP partner Wellogix is accusing the vendor of stealing its trade secrets and swindling it out of lucrative software projects, according to a lawsuit Wellogix filed last week in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

• Supply chain management in Australia - Part 3

  By David Braue | 21 September, 2011 07:00

  As if data quality and stockouts weren’t enough of a day-today worry for CIOs, added pressure to serve demanding online customers and keep up with changing legislation are creating new challenges. With several retail giants lumbering online and the looming introduction of the government’s new carbon tax, CIOs need to be working with procurement, financial and other business leaders to ensure supply-chain systems are up to today’s new challenges.

• Supply chain management in Australia - Part 2

  By David Braue | 20 September, 2011 06:00

  If supply chain experts can spend so much time and effort improving efficiency and still have more work to do, how are smaller companies meant to get their supply chains right? It’s not as if they have been standing still: CIOs at FMCG organisations and other companies of all sizes have long focused on using high-end supply chain management solutions to trim fat from their company supply chains. Many embarked upon massive enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations a decade ago as they stared down the end-of-life of existing systems and the spectre of the Y2K bug. Yet while their intentions were good, the same can’t be said for the methods of resolution.

• Supply chain management in Australia - Part 1

  By David Braue | 19 September, 2011 10:59

  It all started, as these things sometimes do, with a chicken.

• Supply Chain Data: Real-Time Speed Is Seductive, Dangerous

  By Thomas Wailgum | 22 March, 2010 07:47

  Let's call it the Wall Street Effect: Many companies now face tremendous pressure to ensure that all corporate data is "up to the second," just like those traders on The Street who bask in sub-second financial data and those consumer "day traders" who now demand equal speed.

• Big Supply Chain Troubles in China

  By Thomas Wailgum | 15 December, 2008 11:37

  A worldwide economic recession, volatile energy prices and mistrust of Chinese products are conspiring to end China's reign as the low-cost supplier to the world.

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