Were You Ready for Holiday Season 2013?

Of course, for companies that stubbornly have stuck with outmoded supply chain management technologies or have failed to take full advantage of their existing system's capabilities, it's probably too late to gear up for the critically short 2013 shopping season.

That's a scary thing — scarier than Marley's Ghost in Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol." But it's also incentive for such companies to update their supply chain technology in time for 2014.