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RFID Is Back! And It's the Key to Supply-Chain Visibility

Decades after its debut, radio frequency identification technology is finally poised to realize its potential in the retail sector.

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Optimization Software Vital to Performance of Manufacturing's Supply Chains

Optimization technology allows manufacturing companies to become more flexible and to more efficiently manage their supply chains by accounting for real life constraints and business rules. They can review "what-if" analyses of various scenarios, tied to key performance indicators that measure success on an ongoing basis. They can generate near optimal plans from the virtually infinite number of possible options. And with a clear set of future-oriented KPIs they can measure tomorrow’s performance before it happens.

Supply Chain Managers Concerned About Climate-Induced Business Disruptions

The semiconductor and electronics industries have learned in the most difficult manner in the past few years how damaging business disruptions due to weather can be.

Elon Musk Looks to Blast His Way Into Pentagon's Satellite Business

There's a custom in Washington that U.S. defense contractors don't talk trash about their competitors, at least not in public. After fiercely competing for multibillion-dollar Pentagon contracts, the winner often placates the loser with a piece of the action. When Lockheed Martin was awarded the contract to build the F-22 fighter jet, it hired Northrop Grumman to build the plane's radar. Boeing won the contract to build the Air Force's KC-46 tanker plane and asked Northrop and Raytheon to contribute key components. Everyone ends up happy. It's how it’s always been done.

Improving the Healthcare Supply Chain Through Guidelines

"There are some horrible working conditions; kids as young as seven making surgical instruments; people losing limbs. It's horrendous," says Mahmoud Bhutta, consultant surgeon and founder of the British Medical Association's (BMA) Medical Fair and Ethical Trade Group, established in 2007. "Many of the companies [which supply the NHS] have been burying their heads in the sand."

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E-commerce Drives Top, Bottom Line for B2B Companies, Study Shows

Companies achieved impressive financial success attributable to their e-commerce implementations, according to a Forrester Consulting study commissioned by EPiServer, a software provider for digital marketing solutions.

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Tanker Fire Highlights Accident-prone Nature of Shipping in Energy Industry

When DWT tanker Shoko Maru caught on fire recently it was described as one of the worst accidents in energy shipping in the past decade. And a recent study shows that product tankers are considered the most accident-prone shipping types, followed by LPG tankers.

A Holistic Approach to Sustainable Packaging

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The Post-Modern Supply Chain: Connecting the Dots in the Age of Digital Disruption

You don't have to look too far, or listen too intently, to detect signs of digital disruption these days. We're in the midst of a veritable eruption of disruption, taking place across the business landscape and radically reshaping everything from customer interactions to internal processes to extended supply chains. Needless to say, it's far better to be the disrupter than one of the rudely disrupted.

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Oil Trains Face Criticism in North America

Several spots along North America's new oil-by-rail corridors find residents and officials restless, following six fiery derailments in the past 10 months. Some want to limit or halt the traffic, fearful that existing precautions will not prevent deadly blasts, air and waterway pollution, or nuisances including nasty odors.

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Ocean Carriers Search for Best Emission Reduction Technology

In a recent decision affecting ocean freight operators, the International Maritime Organization's Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) adopted amendments to the MARPOL Convention to set a date for the implementation of "Tier III" standards within emission control areas (ECAs) and to make the IMO Member State Audit Scheme mandatory.

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