Ever since my introduction to supply chain vendor compliance in 1993, retailers, organizations and associations, advisory firms, transportation and logistics companies, and hardware and software ...

Traditionally, supply chains have focused on cost savings and operational efficiency, often measured by metrics like On Time, In Full (OTIF). However, as CEOs increasingly expect supply chains to ...

Electronic data interchange, or EDI, is a core technology used to ...

In U.S. retail and grocery, the intermediary item identifier is the GTIN-12/UPC (Global Trade Item Number, 12-digits, which was formerly known as the Universal Product Code), and in the book ...

The third of Dr. Marien’s 8Rs of his Customer’s Bill of Rights is the Right Source. Per his original article, the Right Source was described as: ...

Some typical supply chain metrics that retailers use to judge vendors on their performance, usually by calendar month, are: Orders accepted vs. canceled. The number of purchase orders accepted and ...

Barcodes work based on light reflected back to scanner optics: black does not reflect light, while the white (blank) spaces do reflect light. Because characters (alphabetic, numeric, special) are ...

The first of Dr. Marien’s 8Rs of his Customer’s Bill of Rights is the Right Product. Per his original article, the Right Product was described as: Customers are demanding products that meet tough ...

The world of artificial intelligence is changing fast—too fast for some to keep up. Businesses that just three years ago were exploring how to implement AI saw a quick pivot in 2023-24 to learn all ...

The second of Dr. Marien’s 8Rs of his Customer’s Bill of Rights is the Right Quantity. Per his original article, the Right Quantity was described as: Quantity can have several meanings related to the ...