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Overcoming Deadlock Through Trade Integration

After more than two decades of development, cross-strait economic and trade ties between Taiwan and the mainland are undergoing a transition. Likewise, China's economy has also entered a transitional phase.

Will Natural Gas Become the Main Fuel Powering Transportation?

Natural gas has started to challenge oil as the dominant transport fuel with companies building gas-powered ships and installing networks of service stations on water and land.

How Manufacturers Can Avoid MDM Pitfalls and Harness Big Data

Big data is the all the rage and getting tons of press as it has allowed manufacturers and supply chain executives to create new and compelling data-driven strategies that help them compete, innovate and capture wallet-share. Perhaps fueled in part by the likes of leading database vendors or system integrators (SIs) looking to cash in on high-dollar predictive analytic and scoring engagements, big data represents many things to many people, but one of the most pragmatic applications is mastering all the data elements used in a business infrastructure. The term commonly used for this process is master data management, or MDM.

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Recession - What Recession? Spending on Luxury Items Topped $1.8Tr Last Year

Consumers remain smitten by luxury. Their urge to splurge was revealed in a 2013 study by The Boston Consulting Group, which found that consumers spent an annual aggregate amount of more than $1.8tr worldwide on items the respondents defined as luxuries.

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Segmenting Electronics Supply Chain

The competitive pressure on members of the global electronics sector has never been greater. While electronics OEMs recognize that their supply chains represent a significant opportunity to gain efficiencies, reduce cost and boost market share, many struggle to take their supply chain process improvement efforts beyond the proverbial low-hanging fruit.

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Where Do All Those Old Ships Go to Die? Many to Substandard Beaching Facilities.

NGO Shipbreaking Platform, a global coalition of organizations seeking to prevent dirty and dangerous shipbreaking practices worldwide, has published the complete list of ships that were dismantled around in the world in 2013. Of the 1213 large ocean-going vessels that were scrapped in 2013, 645 were sold to substandard beaching facilities in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, says the group. Approximately 40 per cent of these ships were EU-owned.

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Accreditation Program Introduced to Protect Integrity of Information, Communication Technology

The Open Group has launched the Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard (O-TTPS) Accreditation Program, one of the first accreditation programs aimed at assuring the integrity of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) information and communication technology (ICT) products worldwide and safeguarding the global supply chain against the increasing sophistication of cybersecurity attacks.

What Unemployment Problem? The Supply Chain Job Market Is Wide Open

In September 2013, SupplyChainBrain Managing Editor Bob Bowman published a blog post that addressed Bridging the Gap in Supply Chain Talent.

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Flextronics Speaks About Opportunity to Manufacture in the U.S.

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How PepsiCo Created a Plant With "Near-Net-Zero" Impact

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Mobile Commerce Was Very Bright Spot in Holiday Retail Sales

Overall, holiday sales were weak, but from a mobile perspective, the results were phenomenal, with mobile traffic reaching 48 percent of all online traffic while mobile sales grew 40 percent to reach 29 percent of online holiday sales, according to data from IBM.

Positive Growth Seen for Information Technology Market in 2014, Both Globally and in U.S.

The global information technology industry is likely to experience moderate growth in 2014, some 3.4 percent, with upside potential of 5.9 percent, according to the IT Industry Outlook 2014 released by CompTIA, the non-profit association for the IT channel. The U.S forecast is slightly lower: 3 percent, with upside potential of 5.4 percent.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

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Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

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