- Wal-Mart Study Quantifies Improved
On-Shelf Availability with EPC RFID
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Wal-Mart
customers found items they wanted in stock more often due to the retailer's use
of electronic product codes (EPCs) powered by radio
frequency identification
(RFID) technology when compared to control stores. This is according to
an independent University of Arkansas study's initial findings. Researchers at
the University of Arkansas found a 16 percent reduction in out-of-stocks. Additionally,
the study showed that out-of-stock items with EPCs were replenished three times
faster than comparable items using standard bar code technology. Equally important,
Wal-Mart experienced a meaningful reduction in manual orders resulting in a reduction
of excess inventory.
The 29-week study analyzed out-of-stock merchandise
at 12 pilot stores
equipped with RFID technology and 12 control stores without
the technology. All Wal-Mart formats - Supercenters, Discount Stores and Neighborhood
Markets - were included in the study.
Chantal Polsonetti, ARC Advisory
Group, commented, "This University study of early Wal-Mart EPC RFID implementations
provides quantification of a key benefit pursued through the use of EPC RFID technology:
reduced stockouts. Given that Wal-Mart itself claims that, on a given Saturday,
1 out of 12 items is out of stock, significant opportunity for improvement remains
beyond this early 16 percent reduction in stockouts." - Microsoft
Mobile Technology Pilot
Microsoft Corp.
shared details of a pilot project it is conducting with KiMs A/S, a Danish snack
and chips manufacturer that has been exploring the benefits of radio frequency
identification (RFID) technology with Microsoft since 2003. The pilot used Visual
Studio 2005, Window Mobile 5.0, and SQL 2005 mobile edition. Partners included;
Techturi, an Axapta partner; Handstep, whose expertise is mobile solutions; Symbol
for PDA; Klusen Consulting for security; and TDC, the local telecoms provider.
KiMs uses Axapta, and has kitted its 70 person sales-force with PDAs
and Tablet PCs. The pilot leverages Microsoft's role based technology, to provide
the salespeople with just the information they require: e.g, the order history
for the customers that will be visited today, the PDA's support bar code scanning
for simplified order entry, and printing of order confirmations. Benefits include
reduced shrinkage, and 15 percent less work in the back-office.
Simon
Bragg, ARC Advisory Group, commented, "This announcement signals Microsoft
Business Solutions intention to more fully support mobile workers. Mobile sales
will be the first step, but field service and possibly vehicle telematics should
be on their road map. Microsoft's challenge is to build a generic solution that
its partners can customise for particular field sales requirements."
- Ericsson
plans R & D center in India
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K.C. Krishnadas
EE Times
(10/24/2005 10:05 AM EDT) BANGALORE, India
— Swedish telecom firm Ericsson plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars
in India, setting up an R & D center in India, expand its existing manufacturing
facilities, and build a global distribution center. The R & D center
will be in Chennai, southern India. Ericsson already has outsourced some R &
D efforts to Wipro Technologies and Tata Consultancy Services, and the new center
will be in addition to the existing partnerships, according to reports. The
expanded manufacturing facility will be in Jaipur, northwestern India, while the
global delivery center will be in Gurgaon, near New Delhi. With annual investments
of about $100 million in India, Ericsson now employs 1,500 there and will add
up to a thousand people each year in the country. But the company has ruled out
a plant to manufacture wireless handsets in the country.
THE
WORLDWIDE SUPPLY CHAIN EXECUTION MARKET TO GROW OVER 9% ANNUALLY Supply
Chain Execution (SCE) solutions are real-time systems that manage supply chain
operations. SCE solutions are composed of Warehouse Management Systems, Transportation
Management Systems, Collaborative Production Management applications, and other
real-time supply chain applications. The growth in the SCE market is being driven
far more by the demand for real-time production management applications than for
logistics applications. The worldwide SCE market is expected to grow at a Compounded
Annual Growth Rate of 9.2% percent over the next five years toalmost $6.6 billion
in 2010. BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS WORLDWIDE MARKET TO EXCEED $25
BILLION The worldwide Building Automation Systems (BAS) market continues
to grow at a steady rate in both developing and developed countries. For companies
in developed regions, strategic management of existing building assets is one
of the best ways to increase productivity, with little to virtually no operational
upsets. On the flip side, corporations in Asia continueexpanding operations to
meet growing domestic demand, many of which are in corporating state-of-the-art
BAS solutions. The market is expected to grow at a Compounded Annual Growth Rate
of nearly 5%, exceeding $25 billion in 2009. CPM FOR PROCESS MANUFACTURING
MARKET TO GROW NEARLY 12% ANNUALLY The market for Collaborative
Production Management Solutions (CPM) for Process Manufacturing has been steady
for the past couple of years, but this is rapidly changing as demand is on the
rise. The market is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate of nearly
12% over the next five years. As global competition increases, existing manufacturing
facilities are under incredible pressure to improve their Return on Assets (ROA).
To achieve higher evels of performance, these plants are adopting more CPM solutions
that better link manufacturing operations with business objectives, that increases
their flexibility and agility, and that synchronizes their supply chain operations. - Huawei
to set up a plant in India
PTI[ TUESDAY, OCTOBER
25, 2005 02:05:29 PM]SHENZEN: Chinese telecom equipment major Huawei Technologies
is in the process of setting up a manufacturing plant in India with an investment
of $ 60 million for which the company has sought approval from the Government.
"We are planning local manufacturing in India and will invest $
60 million for the same. We applied in March 2005 for approval for the facility
from Foreign Investment Promotion Board and waiting for the decision," Huawei
Tech spokesperson Fu Jun said.
He said the proposed manufacturing plant
would meet the future bidding criteria in telecom PSUs where local manufacturing
unit would be mandatory condition as well as enable the company to deliver quick
customer service.
The proposed center to come up in Bangalore will focus
on NGN (Next Generation Network), fixed wireless terminals, some part of 3G equipment,
designing process of Huawei's products.
Huawei is hopeful of starting
the facility this year once the FIPB nod comes in, he added.
Huawei's
decision on manufacturing plant in India follows the policy decision of Department
of Telecom to make vendors mandatorily have a production unit in the country.
Its rivals like Nokia and Ericsson have manufacturing facilities in some form
or other in India.
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- LG
to manufacture optical storage devices in India
2005-10-26
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LG
Electronics India plans to put up a new plant for Optical Storage Devices (OSDs)
in its manufacturing facility Ranjangaon, Maharashtra. The plant will manufacture
products like CD and DVD writers, and is expected to begin operations early next
year.
LG’s sales of OSDs already stand at over a lakh units per
month. The plant may also manufacture LCD monitors for the European market, one
of its largest consumers.
The Ranjangaon facility contributes significantly
to LG’s exports, and the output is expected to grow. The export figures of
the company recently touched the $100 million mark.
- TCL
India to put up manufacturing unit
Monday,
24 October , 2005, 19:01Chennai: TCL India Holdings Pvt Ltd,
a 100 per cent subsidiary of TCL Corporation of China, is planning to put up a
manufacturing hub in India, at an investment of Rs 100 crore, a top company executive
said today
The integrated company would produce colour TV sets and other
white goods (Air-conditioners, washing machines and mobile phones) and production
in the new factory would begin by next year end, Adhikarla Gopalkrishna, Senior
Vice-President, Sales and Marketing, told a news conference here.
States
which would give the company the logistics benefits would be chosen. The company
had short-listed Noida in Uttar Pradesh, Pune and a city in South India, he said,
adding that final decision on the location was yet to be taken by the company.
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TCL India was now producing
25 models of colour TV sets and would soon introduce LCD TV. The company has already
launched Magnetic Induction Cookers In Mumbai and Delhi and these cookers would
be launched in Chennai very soon. The launch of a cosmetic preserver was also
on the cards.
The Fortune-500 parent company in China, started in 1984,
sold 1.71 crore colour TV sets last year and the target for this calendar year
was 2.40 crore CTV sets. The global turnover was Rs 35,500 crore in Jan-Dec 2004.
with a brand value of Rs 60,000 crore, Gopalkrishna said.
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