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As I was picking up my pen (or, to be precise, putting my fingers to the keyboard), I got distracted by an online news alert that popped up on my computer screen: "Fed Chief Greenspan Suggests Shift from Income Tax to National Sales Tax."
The reason there wasn't an awful lot of merchandise left over after the holiday shopping blitz was that the amount of goods stocked by the stores pretty evenly matched what consumers wanted to buy.
It's not every day that you see someone appointed to head up both information technology and the supply chain. But then, Danny Garst isn't exactly your everyday professional.
It was less than a decade ago that the term "supply chain management" first appeared in the title of a CLM conference session. Since that time, the internal and external worlds of logistics have slowly but surely been converging.
Not so long ago, RFID promoter Kevin Ashton's biggest challenge was making believers out of the skeptics. But today even he's a bit bewildered by all the enthusiasm. Yes, RFID will revolutionize supply chain management, he says; just don't expect it to happen overnight.
With RFID's potential to provide the kind of competitive advantage that sends competitors fleeing from the scene, it's hardly surprising that those who have "cracked the code" are keeping the news under wraps.
While others scramble to be the first to roll out the latest dazzling technology, Elijah Ray just sits back and smiles. Success isn't about systems integration and microchip tags, he says; it's the people who make things happen.
It took a nudge from Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman to push aspiring economist Jack LeVan into the business world. But once there, LeVan found a way to use basic microeconomic principles to fuel triple-digit sales growth.
Though logistics operations receive plenty of public attention for their role in relief efforts in times of crisis, it's important to note that the logistics community is also there 365 days a year working quietly behind the scenes to help those in need.