The Boekhandels Groep Nederland is starting the use of RFID to facilitate the tracking of special order books. The retail chain is looking at item level tagging as the next step.

The book store will deploy RFID interrogators at two shelves which currently have RFID tags on books. The readers and shelf antennas are provided by Vue Technology, will allow BGN to capture the location of each specially ordered book stored on an RFID-enabled shelf.

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Blanket P.O.’s and Procurement Cards (P-cards) are two tools that non-eProcurement environments can adopt to reduce tactical activities in a purchasing department.

Professional purchasing staff should rarely "cut P.O.’s" for orders under $100 when a vendor and pricing have already been determined by the purchasing team.

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As an organization proceeds with ‘leaning’ its’ internal systems (both on the operations side and the support side), it will soon run into constraints which will slow the lean effort. And while some of these constraints are internal (and can be overcome), some will be external, in the supply chain.
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