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When Growth Mandates Change: Blue Diamond Reevaluates Its Supply Chain

The growers' cooperative, a dominant processor and marketer of almonds and related products, seeks to reconfigure its forward distribution network, to reflect current and future demand from retailers.

Tech Data Bolsters Suppliers Through a Working-Capital Marketplace

The big distributor of technology products extends an existing relationship with C2FO to Europe, where many suppliers are strapped for cash and open to early-payment arrangements via a collaborative platform.

When a Small Company Needs Help in Hauling Big Equipment

Ameri-Green Automotive LLC buys and refurbishes all manner of used trucks and trailers at its facility in Georgia. It needed a skilled, reliable 3PL to arrange for movement of the equipment from locations throughout the U.S.

TV Home-Shopping Retailer Benefits From EDI Managed Service

As U.K.-based television home shopping company experienced explosive growth, it needed to consolidate all electronic data interchange operations onto one platform and integrate with its back office.

Manufacturer Finds Acquisition Brings Unlimited ERP Seats

Taking over companies can bring IT expense as well as new business opportunities. So an electrical supply manufacturer was delighted that a merger brought unlimited licenses at no extra cost.

How Fourth-Gen Schweid & Sons Built a $250M Business on Burgers

Few family businesses last three generations, let alone four. Jamie Schweid, the fourth-generation CEO of Schweid & Sons, a Carlstadt, N.J., purveyor of hamburger meat, is one of the outliers.

PepsiCo Faces Activist Outrage, Plus Threats of More to Come

PepsiCo is being blasted by an environmental activist group - and threatened with further campaigns against it - following the beverage giant's release of its Palm Oil Action Plan Progress Report last week.

15 ERP Disasters and Dustups - and How to Avoid Them

You can find out how crucial an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software rollout can be for a company from a single word: billions - as in lawsuit price tags over failed ERP and customer relationship management (CRM).

Opinion: The Urgency of Better Strategic Insights

A dashboard from a 1980s or 1990s economy sedan in a modern hybrid sports car would catch your attention for all kinds of aesthetic and technical reasons.

Wal-Mart Puts Chemicals in Spotlight by Joining New Program

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has joined a new program that rates companies on their use of chemicals, a move that puts fresh pressure on the consumer-products industry to police its ingredients.

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Amazon Is the Topic Companies Can't Avoid

What looms over businesses as far flung as car repair, lab equipment and swimming pool gear? In a word, Amazon.

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Hitting Paris Accord Goals Requires Urgent Business Support, Researchers Warn

There's a 5-percent chance of reaching the goals set by the Paris agreement - or keeping temperature increases to no more than 2 degrees Celsius by mid century - according to new research published in Nature Climate Change.

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