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Newgistics
TITLE: If the Shoe Doesn’t Fit… LENGTH: 2 pages DOWNLOAD: www.newgistics.com/downloads/whitepapers.php SUMMARY: The Internet is a great tool for selling products, but what happens when you sell goods that need to be touched and tried on? Road Runner Sports, a multi-channel retailer of running shoes, discovered these challenges the hard way. Road Runner had trouble handling shoes and apparel returned by customers who needed different sizes. Customers sent orders back, but Road Runner’s customer service staff had no idea when new products would arrive. Find out how the company solved its returns dilemma by downloading this whitepaper. Optiant TITLE: Changing the Basis of Competition with Supply Chain Design LENGTH: 15 pages DOWNLOAD: http://www.optiant.com/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_ view/gid,54/Itemid,94/ SUMMARY: Supply chain design accounts for intricacies and interdependencies across the whole supply chain, and allows companies to fully understand the financial impact of their supply chain decisions. What can supply chain design do for you? This whitepaper delves into the benefits. Actively designing supply chains can change the competitive landscape. Earlier adopters have already taken advantage of this; have you?
Paxar Americas
Learn how supply chain design increases competitive advantage in this whitepaper from Optiant.
TITLE: New GS1 2D Matrix Symbology Support LENGTH: 4 pages DOWNLOAD: www.paxar.com/products/barcodeRFID/documents/newGS12Dmatrix- symbology-whitepaper.pdf SUMMARY: The organization GS1 was created to explore bar-code options to meet worldwide standards. Three new bar-code symbologies are presented in this whitepaper: Aztec code, GS1 DataBar, and GS1 Composite Symbology. Aztec is an update from older bar codes; it can sustain major damage around the edges and still be readable. GS1 Databar, formerly RSS, carries more information than the current EAN/UPC bar code, which is important as companies look to track larger amounts of data. The GS1 Composite boasts a linear component for primary data, and an adjacent component for supplementary data. Discover which one suits your needs.
Navesink Logistics
TITLE: Advance Shipping Notice (ASN) LENGTH: 12 pages DOWNLOAD: www.navesinklogistics.com/whitepaper/file_download.asp SUMMARY: Companies using or planning to use ASN – an Electronic Data Interchange
transaction that provides data in advance so receiving companies can correctly plan receipt processing and workloads – can gain from reading this whitepaper. It examines the benefits of ASN and how it can best be utilized, as well as where the industry is headed with regard to ASN and gaining knowledge through electronic data transmission.
208 Inbound Logistics • July 2007
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