By Mac Cutchins on
2/19/2010 10:38 PM
In his famous short story "The Things They Carried", writer Tim O'Brien chronicles the travail of American soldiers in Vietnam. In a litany that's often like an inventory list, he tells us that the lieutenant carries letters, two photographs and a smooth stone from his girlfriend...
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By Mac Cutchins on
8/28/2009 9:21 PM
There's a new phrase in economic circles: the new normal. This noetic turn was recently coined by Mohammad El-Erian, the Chief Executive at Pimco. Because of who he is and because of who Pimco is, and as a result of the earthshaking events of last year, everyone seems to be talking about it.
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By Mac Cutchins on
8/20/2009 1:11 PM
We're at the SCOPE west supply chain event this week in Las Vegas. The format of the trade show aspect is a new experience for us. Our days are filled with short appointments with potential clients that have some interest in taking a look at us. We have 42 scheduled appointments in two days!
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By Mac Cutchins on
7/9/2009 6:30 PM
SCdigest continues the saga of the growing resistance to SKU proliferation in its recent Will Large Retailers Help Manufacturers Drive Out Supply Chain Complexity? Once again we get exemplars of proliferation and the economic impact such proliferation has on corporate performance and profitability.
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By Mac Cutchins on
5/19/2009 4:39 PM
We've completed a fairly informal survey among several hundred prospects over the last few months. We're getting a consistent message from them: Revenue is flat or down, but labor costs are up.
Of course, we ask them "Why?"
The answers coincide with the market dynamics in supply chain execution that we've been tracking for years. Companies are tightening inventory levels. So they are ordering less, more frequently. In terms of supply chain execution, they may be picking less orders but they are performing more receipts and executing more put aways. In some cases, especially in wholesale distribution, their customers are ordering less - but more frequently. This drives o ...
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By Mac Cutchins on
2/20/2009 5:49 PM
We've been fortunate to get some good press coverage for our Warehouse Librarian SaaSTM product in the press since our ProMat announcement last month.
Supply and Demand Chain Executive provided a good overview of our technology positioning.
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By Mac Cutchins on
1/27/2009 12:09 PM
One of our oldest (and we mean in calendar time using our product suite, not the spry spring chicken interviewed) customers, Bill DeWitt of Boyds Coffee, was interviewed in Purchasing Online this month. It's a great story, one that is now sixteen years in the telling and still going strong. We have always been proud to be of support to Boyds Coffee Company, even before we got famous overnight...
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By Mac Cutchins on
1/15/2009 12:35 PM
Those ProMat Thursdays, you know. This one exacerbated by outside temperatures at -15 degrees - that's without the wind chill.
Still we've had some great visits with prospects today. And we're excited to head home and begin assisting some of these courageous companies to make their operations more efficient and sieze market share.
Any list of "thank you's" would miss too many people, so let us just say that we appreciate everyone: employees, partners, customers, vendors, and friends who helped make this trade show such a success!
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By Mac Cutchins on
1/14/2009 5:36 PM
Perhaps you can tell. We're having the best ProMat show in our 20 years of exhibiting here. Part of it is because our company has been growing. Part of it is our booth location, our booth design, our booth materials, our preparation, and many other factors that contribute to a successful trade show.
But, mostly, it's our customers.
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By Mac Cutchins on
1/13/2009 5:11 PM
We're the self-styled underdog. The boutique firm. Yet, this week, in our own humble opinion of course, we have the most innovative display and informative booth of all the IT firms at ProMat. We're the only company demonstrating our full Supply Chain Execution suite - including Radio Frequency handheld computers (you try it with a few hundred Access Points running all around you), and voice recognition technology, on our local server in the booth and live over the internet from our remote server in Seattle.
Prospects really appreciate that we are openly showing our wares here and it's really exciting to d ...
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