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Supply chains and barcodes

Have you ever thought about how barcodes are a major factor in performance of supply chains? How can you keep track of all the items flowing through the supply chain?Using a barcode scanner and inventory control software it is easy to check where any item is at any given moment.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Does product design impact supply chain risk?
Is it possible that supply chain risk is a result of unfortunate product design? Is it possible that[...]
Risky ramblings
Why such a title for today's post? The abstract of the 2004 article Risky business: Expanding the di[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Operations Rules
Operations Rules by David Simchi-Levi comes with an ambiguous title. You can read this two ways: 1) [...]
Book Review: This is where raster GIS started...
...well not really, but Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling by Dana Tomlin spar[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
The supply chain of the future
Many global supply chains are not equipped to cope with the world we are entering. Most were enginee[...]
Global Risks 2008 - A prediction come true
In my post on Hyper-optimization and supply chain vulnerability: an invisible global risk? I highlig[...]
from HERE and THERE
It's already happening...in Norway?
The food supply chain. Did you know that 25% of the world's food supply are lost because of spoilage[...]
Is Your Supply Chain Vulnerable?
Recently I came across a report on Supply Chain Vulnerability published as early as 2002 by the Cran[...]