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Barcoding, Inc. Launches Supply-Chain Architecture Practice

Barcoding Inc. has launched Supply Chain Architecture by Barcoding, a dedicated practice for the identification, formulation and management of "perfect order" fulfillment processes.

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Manufacturers Can No Longer Ignore Focusing on Resource Productivity

A decade or so ago, companies in industrial manufacturing and other process industries did not need to focus on resource productivity. If they gave any attention to the topic, it was to undertake small, incremental measures with the hope of generating marginal improvements. That period is over. Today, there is no debate: resource productivity must be among the top priorities - if not the top priority - of industrial manufacturers around the world.

You May Need a CRM Solution - But Which One?

Customer relationship management technology has evolved to support increasingly complex business needs. How do you find one that's right for you?

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Three Steps to Successful Supply Chain Mobility For Mid-Market Companies

Mobility is a hot topic these days. Regardless of industry or profession, a mobile application or ecosystem is in development to serve it. The supply chain is no different. In fact, given its very manual and distributed nature, the supply chain is better suited to mobile application deployment than most business processes. For distribution and fulfillment services, where most of the activities take place away from the desktop, the extension of business processes to mobile applications just makes sense. Most CEOs today are looking to the supply chain for competitive advantage (think Amazon's drones), so the time is right for supply chain managers to begin the process of introducing mobile into their processes.

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Number of Global Public Wi-Fi Hotspots to Top 13 Million in 2020

Worldwide public Wi-Fi hotspot deployments reached a total of 5.69 million in 2014, and will grow at a CAGR of 11.2 percent between 2015 and 2020. This includes public Wi-Fi hotspots deployed by mobile and fixed-line carriers as well as third-party Wi-Fi service providers. ABI Research expects the number of worldwide carrier Wi-Fi hotspots will reach 13.3 million in 2020.

Lessons From an Apple Supplier Debacle

Apple is known for consistently maintaining a smooth-running global supply chain. But every once in a while, something blows up.

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Your Next Perfect Employee or Job Is Waiting

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Supply Chain Risk Awareness, Assessment & Benchmarking

Analyst Insight: In 2010, as we began to offer a supply chain risk management class at Lehigh, our body of knowledge continued to expand and migrated into a very effective methodology to review, evaluate and benchmark a company's end-to-end supply chain maturity and inherent risk. The methodology encompassed 100 questions-of-discovery across 10 tenets of the supply chain resulting in a Red, Yellow & Green "spider diagram" profile of a company's supply chain maturity and inherent risk. – Gregory L. Schlegel, Founder, The Supply Chain Risk Management Consortium, and Adjunct Professor, Supply Chain Risk Management, Lehigh University

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Savvy Strategies for International Mailing and Shipping

Billions of transactions around the world everyday connect buyers and sellers in the online marketplace. This globally connected marketplace demands and deserves a sound international mailing and shipping protocol.

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B2B Procurement Begins to Feel Emergence of Millennials

Millennial influence within business-to-business buying decision groups is growing rapidly, according to a study by Google and the research house Millward Brown Digital.

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Safety Guidelines Issued for Reusing Plastic Packaging for Food, Perishable Products

The Reusable Packaging Association has issued comprehensive protocols to ensure the continued safe use of reusable plastic containers (RPCs) for fresh and perishable products in the supply chain. The guidelines encompass washing, handling, storing, packing, displaying and collecting RPCs. They also include rigorous and defined Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points (HACCP), and hourly, daily, monthly, and quarterly microbiological testing.

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Managing Business With the Supplier, Not Just the Supplier

Analyst Insight: No matter what "expert" you ask – all will point to the fact that SRM is on the rise. This growing realization that buyers and suppliers must work together to achieve success in today's complex and volatile economic climate is a welcome sea change in thinking that only will continue. A key to getting SRM right? Make sure you are putting in mechanisms to manage the business with the supplier – not just to manage the supplier. – Kate Vitasek, Faculty for the University of Tennessee's Center for Graduate Executive Education programs.

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