- Lines of supply: traditionally characterized by small
companies making low-volume purchases, the remodeling market definitely
can be a challenge to supply--but it also can be a lucrative revenue
stream...
Since opening for business five years ago, Arthur Bradley Design/ Build has shared a parking lot with The Home Depot on Fairmont Avenue in San Diego, one of 13 stores the retail giant operates in this Southern California market. The remodeler's choice of location was anything but accidental. "We have ......
- A+ valuable lessons: the San Diego Unified School
District adopts the latest emissions-reducing diesel engine technology.
(Fleet feedback).
There's something missing from the air around San Diego, Calif., these days. Thanks to a program underway at the San Diego Unified School District, a growing number of buses equipped with the latest technologies designed to reduce diesel exhaust emissions are doing their part to help improve air quality in ......
- Time in a bottle
It is impossible to imagine that George W. Bush won't step in to halt the dispute that has bottled up cargo ships at ports from San Diego to Bellingham — if he hasn't already done so by the time this issue hits the mailbox. Consumer spending has been propping up ......
- Filling the gaps
HEADNOTE Sounds Familiar: San Diego Developers Revisit Older Communities in Search For Land IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 3 Rick Goldman of the Montana Group: projects up to $10 million For generations, developers looked across San Diego County's wide-open mesas to build their newest projects-first Clairemont, and Mira Mesa, north to Rancho Bernardo, ......
- command
Supply chain management long has been a work in progress, with re-tailers, manufacturers and suppliers seeking ways to streamline procedures and cut costs. But what has dramatically changed–and is continuing to change–are the tools now available and the methods in which retailers can enact cost-effective savings throughout the entire supply ......
- San Diego -- enjoyable and
enriching.
Let's face it: We all work very hard throughout the year and don't necessarily view the NCEW convention as an occasion for all work and no play. Beyond the worthwhile professional enrichment, the annual event also is a chance to socialize with fellow opinion writers and editors, renew old friendships, ......
- From raw materials to customers: Supply chain
management in the service industry.
Supply chain management (SCM) is a familiar concept in manufacturing, but service industries are just now recognizing the value of successfully implementing it. Although certain concepts should be applied while successfully managing a supply chain, companies coordinate their individual supply chains in many different ways. "Thus, in application, supply chain ......