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Article: Benefits of Automatic Store Replenishment and Cycle Counting

Benefits of Automatic Store Replenishment (or Computer Assisted Ordering) and cycle-counting. Features are Nice Shelf Stock to improve commercially attractive shelves, Counting by Exception to improve data integrity and store productivity, and Store Order Leveling™ to improve logistics productivity.

Article: Case-pack quantity must align with sales velocity of retailers

Case-pack quantity of fast moving consumer products is a battlefield between retailers and suppliers because of conflicting interests. Retailers want small case-pack quantities because they prefer low shelf stocks. Suppliers want large case-pack quantities for lower packaging costs and more shelf space. This article provides a practical analysis of effects of case-pack quantity on costs, shelf inventory and profitability in the total supply chain.

Article: Supply Chain Integration in the Food Industry

Analysis of developments in supply chain strategy. Recommendations give direction to food companies to become excellent service organizations (2001)

Article: Radio Frequency (RFID) in Retail

Wal-Mart issued a famous letter in 2004 requiring its top 100 suppliers to put RFID tags on shipping crates and pallets by January 1, 2005. This was the start of high interest by retailers in RFID technology.