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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ensuring that the quantity is correct is reinforced by the use of technology such as automatic identification (barcode labeling and scanning, RFID), counting machines, and scale weights. The Right ...

EDI (electronic data interchange) is one of the core technologies—along with barcode labeling and scanning—that is used to enable supply chains. EDI and barcoding date back to the 1960s and 1970s, and ...