Archive for June, 2008

What If Gasoline Goes to $9.00 Per Gallon?

That was one of the questions futurist Don Libey (www.libey.com) posed to the audience during his presentation at the last VendorNet user conference. You may say that’s absurd! But fuel has already doubled in the past couple of years. Why should those who control the cost of oil give Americans a break?
Libey, who is known [...]

State of the Industry, Strategic, Financial and Operational Planning

VendorNet Connection User Conference

We attended VendorNet’s conference at the beginning of this month to present a speech and a roundtable on Vendor Compliance Policies. The speech covered:
• Role of vendor compliance in reducing costs and speeding receipts through the DC
• Trends in vendor compliance
• Contents of vendor compliance manuals
• [...]

Forecasting & Inventory Management, Freight Costs, Multi-Channel Business Systems, Outsourced services, Strategic, Financial and Operational Planning, Warehousing Distribution Planning

Are you concerned about catalog industry costs?

We want to remind you once again about a very important event, taking place in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, June 26 and Friday, June 27. The American Catalog Mailers Association (ACMA) has organized a groundbreaking forum that will bring together key officials of the U.S. Postal Service, the Postal Regulatory Commission and members of Congress [...]

Freight Costs, Marketing & Merchandising, State of the Industry, Strategic, Financial and Operational Planning