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Article: Willie Loman meets supply-chain management. (Kraft Foods' systems management) (Company Operations)(Column)
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- Software Magazine
- Article date:
- December 1, 1995
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While portions of the software industry pay great attention to data warehouses, what's going on in the real warehouses of the world is just as important. Inventory, once the pride of the manufacturer, is almost a bad word. A slew of business reengineering methodologies and, most recently, supply-chain management software tools, has arisen Godzilla-like to bat down the King Kong-like menace of incorrect inventory. Inventory management is often key as business reengineer their process today.
As materials handling is increasingly seen as an information-handling problem, IS department are being pressed to improve organizations' materials-handling performance. This view ...