Marketing & Advertising

TrueCar projects record certified pre-owned vehicle revenue in 2015 , from benzinga. ANTA MONICA, Calif., April 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- TrueCar, Inc., the negotiation-free car buying and selling mobile marketplace, estimates consumer purchases of certified pre-owned...

How Cloud Enables and Supports the Lean Warehouse, from IMPO. For many manufacturers and distributors, a seamless supply chain of highly efficient and tightly integrated business processes sharing a single unified source of accurate real-time data seems an...

Assume Nothing: 5 Tests Every Manufacturer Should Run Quarterly, from Industry Week. Spring brings showers, flowers and a fresh round of decluttering at homes and offices all around North America. Others will use the time to perform an annual review of broken work...

IT Disruption Risk in the Supply Chain, from Supply Chain Management Review. A recent survey conducted by APQC indicates that many organizations have been affected by various types of IT disruptions within the last two years. Although high-impact natural disasters...

Online startups offer dealers faster, cheaper ways to wholesale vehicles, from Automotive News. Bob Gault, president of three dealerships in Endicott, N.Y., tried the usual ways to liquidate unwanted trade-ins. Wholesalers tended to show up at the wrong time and...

4 Ways to Get Rid of Excess Inventory, from Retail Online Integration. Out-of-date inventory is holding many retailers back. This issue can strike at any time of the year and keeps warehouses full of the wrong products. Inventory costs can account for up to 90 percent...

Oil Prices Jump on Inventory Data, Demand Outlook, from The Wall Street Journal. Prices rise to highest of the year on signs production may be peaking and global demand is rising U.S. oil prices surged to their highest point of the year on signs that the country’s...