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• Can I Get Some Help Here? Workforce Management Systems Eliminate Paper Schedules⁹
• Christmas, Jeans, Baggage and Art: Portable Data Terminals Earn Their Keep¹⁰
• Connections to Profit: Business, Not Tech. Information, Not Data. Integration, Not Islands. EC, Not EDI⁹
• Critical Mass: DSD Matures, But Growing Up is Hard to Do⁹
• Fighting for Shelf Space, Store by Store⁹
• Hanging Up the Feather Duster: Category Management Retires Items, Expands Choices⁹
• Hittin' the Hogan: NESS Provides Personality Testing to Employees
• The Lever of Knowledge: Category Management Benefits from Cooperative Planning³
• Mom & Pop Grow Up: Store-by-Store, Local Market Focus, or Micromarketing⁹ Published as Chains Learn What Mom & Pop Know
• Nanomarketing is New Again and How Three Consumer Direct Models Differ⁹
• No Printer Price Wars¹⁰ published as Printer Price Wars? Yes and No
• Not Ready for Prime Time: Micromarketing, Part 1⁹
• People Count: So Know Who's In Your Store⁹
• Putting Houses in Order: Software Training Crisis Eases in Retail Industry⁹ Published as Finding the Missing Link
• Retail is Retail: Internet Newcomers Plan to Transform the On-Line World⁹ Published as Appearing On A Screen Near You
• Sales Force Automation: The Next Generation³
• Taking on Automation: Showdown or Sundown for Sales Forces and Reps?³
• Understanding Who Buys What & When: Micromarketing, Part 2⁹
• The Unsaleables Quandary¹³
• Virtual Private Mazzio's¹³
• Who's Running the Store? Ever-Growing VMI Shifts Burdens, Profits, and Motives³ Published as Next Generation VMI Emerges

• Action for Productivity: Distribution Center Redesign Struggles Service³ Published as The Four Building Blocks of Distribution...
• The Devil in the Details: Supply Chain Operations Reference Model Establishes Common Terminology ³
• Finding Value in Private and Public Electronics E-markets ¹⁵
• The Ideal DC -- Starting from Scratch: Recipe for Success Depends on the Cook³
• 'If There Were Dreams to Sell, What Would You Buy?': A Poetic Question Still Echoes in the Supply Chain ³
• In and Out the Warehouse: Are Your Shipping and Receiving Systems Up to Par?³
• Inside the Cat's Cradle: Need to Analyze Increasingly Complex Logistics Networks ³
• The Invisible Warehouse: Data Mining and Data Warehousing Move Into Manufacturing³
• Logistics Systems Remain Disconnected: B2B Marketplaces Fail to Web Procurement with Online Transportation Solution¹⁴
• Mobile Supply Chain Convergence = Next Gen Business Competition¹⁴
• The New Search for Value on the Internet¹⁴
• Shipment Tracking Systems: High Tech Leads the Internal Combustion Age⁵
• No Yellow Brick Road: Path to Document Management Remains Convoluted^3,9
• Self-Esteem for Warehouses: Foxware RF Software Raises Efficiency and Pride
• Sourcing Into Receiving: Disciplined Systems, In-Plant Teamwork, and Paperless Customs.³ Published as Superior Sourcing Succeeds
• "Tea, Earl Grey. Hot.": Mass Customization Reveals That the 'Average Consumer' Is a Myth³

• EDI Gets Inclusive: Transforming Forms, Hitching a Ride on the Net³ Published as EDI's High Fives
• EDI Software: Transporter Beam for Manufactured Goods³
• Electronic Shopping: Getting Ready for Prime Time⁹
• Information Age Utopia, CFAR Style: Latest Supply Chain Integration Tool has Web Feel. ³
• The Internet Takes on VANs: Electronic Commerce Reaches Out, and New Problems Need Solutions.^3,9 Published as EDI On The Internet
• Inventing the Internet Presence: New Software Makes Building Websites, Easier and Safer.⁹
• Networks: Roundabout Routes, Destination Anywhere¹⁰
• Squeezing the System: Financial EDI Speeds Purchase Order to Payment³
• Thin Client Market Thickens -- Slowly⁹
• VANs: More Standards, Greater Reach; Reliability Improves and Features Grow¹⁰
• VSATs: Will Very Satisfactory Viable Satellites Virtually Saturate Future Retail Communications?⁹

• Cabling and Wedges: Trading Old Rats' Nests for New¹⁰
• Cleaning Up the Wall Outlets: Why Your Retailers Need Power Conditioning¹⁰
• Clueless? Mine Your Data Warehouse for Unexpected Discoveries
• Data Base Management Systems: Sculptural Tools of Success¹⁰
• The Emperor's New POS: Will PC Rule Forever?¹⁰
• From Redundant to Requisite: Public Apathy Toward Kiosks is Transformed by Addressing Unique Needs^3,9
• If It's Broke, Do You Fix It? The Dilemmas of Hardware Maintenance¹⁰
• Listen Up: Voice Technology Makes Slow Progress³)
• Michelangelo's Children: Touch Screen Technology Fills Human Needs and Improves Efficiency⁹
• Neural Nets: Leading Edge Technology Begins to Offer a Retail Edge⁹
• The New Kiosks: Making Consumers into Product Designers and Trend Analysts⁹
• Of Mice and Pens: No Pocket Protectors Needed!³
• Open Systems: Is Invention the Mother of Necessity?⁹ Published as Open Systems Win At POS
• Open Systems: Is Invention the Mother of Necessity?¹⁰ Published as Open Systems: The Missing Pieces
• Pen Climbs Over the Wall: No Longer Greeted with Suspicion, Pen Technology Escapes Being Prisoner of Expectations³
• The Progress of Palmtops: From Terminals to Computers⁵
• Puzzles from the Yard Sale: An Ongoing Conversation⁵
• Relative Subroutines for the Z-80¹
• Service: Medusa and Andrew⁹ Published as Maintenance Contracts: What to Expect
• Software Application Evaluators Aid IT Expansion¹⁴
• Spread Spectrum: New Questions Arise, Old Doubts Persist ^3,10
• Spread Spectrum Technology: What It Is; How It Stacks Up Against UHF⁵
• Turning Sausage Back Into the Pig: The Y2K Problem⁰
• Voice Technology in Retail¹⁰
• Where are the Software Police? A Forum on Incompatibility¹⁰
• XML: Doing it Right, Quietly -- and Soon¹⁴

• Your Table is Ready⁶
• A Brief History of Home Delivery Systems⁶
• Managing Interruptions⁶
• The Race to Eat and Run⁶
• At Your Service⁶
• Who's Minding the Thermostat?⁶

• Before Paving the Cowpath: Long-Term Enterprise-Wide Client-Server Migration at Sears⁹ Published as Sears IT Supports Turnaround
• CAD Quickly Creates Black & Decker Products³
• The Chameleon Emporium: High-Energy 7-Eleven Stores in Japan May Offer Lessons⁹
• A Different Kind of Incompatibility: In Conversation with Juan Merchan of UPS¹⁰
• A Different Kind of Mine: Woolworth U.K First Shakes Off States, The Old Image⁹
• Ease His Pain: Equipment and Software Improve Communication at Keebler³
• Esprit de Carton: Spirited Warehouse Management Introduced at Sportswear Company³
• External Hosting Lights Up Bluelight.com's Path¹⁴
• Flagging Down the Future: EDI Shows its Stripes at Illinois' Betsy Flag³
• Going Live Without A Net: Lego Plays with Some Really Big Toys³
• Horace Clemmons: Pieces'n'Parts Philosopher-King⁹
• Horace Clemmons and PSI: Pieces'n'Parts Philosopher-Kingdom¹⁰
• Illinois Wholesale Cash Register¹⁰
• Instruments & Equipment Company¹⁰
• Integrated Reverse Logistics Solution Allows Levi Strauss to Profit Off Returns¹⁴
• 'It Works: That's The Key': New Rockport Facility is Efficient, Accurate³ Published as Participatory DC Rises
• Jim in Integrated Land: Changing the Way Data is Done¹⁰
• Potholes in the Floor: Exeter Gives New Balance a Better Footing³
• Private exchanges enable businesses to buy and sell, design and plan, and collaborate across the supply chain.¹⁴
• Slow Boat from China: Wilsons Uses IT Strategies to Shrink Four-Month Turnarounds from Asia³
• Synchronization Tastes Good at Coca-Cola¹⁴

• Breath Upon a Flame²
• Fitting Sounds¹²
• Give Yourself a Present²
• Inspiration? It's Never Happened to Me²
• Partnership? With Business?²
• Tetrakys: A Music/Dance Summing Up²
• Your Music on the Web: Ways, Means, Rights, and the Old West²
• If Only I Could Sing: Ann Southam in Conversation with Kalvos & Damian¹²

• Take Two Bute and Call Me in the Morning⁸
• UST Monitoring: More Than Self-Defense⁴

⁰ Miscellaneous Publications
¹ Byte
² Consorting
³ Consumer Goods Manufacturer
⁴ Convenience Store News
⁵ Data Capture Reseller
⁶ Hospitality Technology
⁷ ID Systems
⁸ Paint Horse Journal
⁹ Retail InfoSystems News
¹⁰Retail Systems Reseller
¹¹Vermont Arts Council Artsletter
¹²MusicWorks
¹³Stores
¹⁴Frontline Solutions
¹⁵Supply Chain E-Business

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