Home again, home again

The reports from Frankfurt are zooming as quickly as molasses uphill in wintertime. In other words...it was a fine fair, a good fair, a solid fair...but an unremarkable fair.

The most intriguing part of it, of course, was the International Supply Chain Specialists meeting. Hosted by BIC/EDItEUR, it involved a series of presentations about such things as Smart Shelves that could read RFID tags and thus essentially do your inventory for you, Ingram Digital Venture's new initiatives around its acquisition of VitalSource, and Pearson Education's task of trying to get all its disparate global systems to all talk to one another. Presentations are posted on the EDItEUR website.

Then...there was the trudging...and the hauling of catalogs and brochures home in the suitcase....