Archive for January, 2010
International Customs Day 2010
International Customs Day this year has a special focus on recognising partnerships between Customs and business. This year also marks the 170th year of Customs protecting New Zealand’s border.
Interesting, lively, and educational activities and displays will be in Wellington and Auckland over the coming week.
Tuesday 26 January — Wellington
In Wellington, join us at Civic Square [...]
RFID will not wait for you ! – RFID Master Class Register NOW !
Around the world, companies in every industry are cutting costs, boosting efficiencies and enhancing customer service with radio frequency identification – RFID. As momentum gathers globally around the use of RFID, so does the need for high qualify information, guidance and implementation support.
GS1 New Zealand and the New Zealand RFID Pathfinder Group are two independant, [...]
Cutting out costs, reducing errors and improving customer service.
These goals have always seemed to be mutually exclusive. Removing costs usually comes down to removing labor in a 3PL environment. As a generalization, cutting costs (through labor reductions) increases errors and leads to reduced, not enhanced, customer service.
There is an answer to this though – reduce labor by removing work, not workers.
NZ Customs seizes over one tonne of ‘P’ precursor last year
The New Zealand Customs Services has, for the first time, intercepted over one tonne of methamphetamine precursor ContacNT in a single calendar year. The one tonne mark was passed in November 2009.
The amount Customs intercepted last year was enough to manufacture at least 246 kilograms of methamphetamine, or ‘P’, saving an estimated $138.6 million dollars [...]
RFID to See Further Growth in 2010
In 2009, the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) market grew to US$5.56 billion, having almost tripled in five years. Being largely based on government backed military, identity card, financial card, passport and other projects and legally mandated requirements such as animal tagging. This market is recession proof, continuing to grow rapidly. Of the total, US$2.18 billion [...]
Key Supply Chain Success Factors in 2010
Businesses must now approach the marketplace with a new mindset and refine their supply chains, according to i2 Technologies – to be prepared for upward demand trends in 2010, while managing to minimize their exposure to financial risks in a market that will still be characterized by uncertainty.
In addition to helping organizations be lean and [...]
