Every time a new disastrous report comes out about the current salmonella outbreak, I think of all of the food businesses that are in the unenviable situation that they can't trace the sales of specific items to their specific customers.  In other words, "Where's the peanut!"  Product ...

By now everyone that hasn't been hiding behind the moon has heard the various "experts" tell the world how gloomy the business climate is.  Undoubtedly we are collectively in tough times.  I have been reading, however, some comments by thinking businessmen that are pushing the concept that this is the ...

Well, now it is official.  Everyone is convinced that we are in a down period of the business cycle.  What are the things that we should be doing so that we ride this out? It is never easy to manage a distribution business.  Prices up and down, employee problems, spiraling costs, ...

My friend, Mike Glover, has told me many times, "Cash is cash and everything else is something else." That may seem like an odd quote for an inventory management blog, but if you are like most inventory intensive companies, much of your cash is tied up in inventory.  The good news ...

Inventory Management Today has joined the “U Comment, I Follow movement” and has implemented the change on this site. Most blog platforms default to a “no follow” setting for comments.   In other words, when you leave a comment on a blog, even though you may leave the URL to your website, the blog is ...