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'Project Passport' Designed to Improve Food Packaging Compliance Communication in Supply Chain

Project Passport, launched by SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association, is intended to provide companies in the food packaging supply chain with a suite of communication tools and educational resources to help convey relevant information about their products to ensure compliance and address the concerns of consumers and customers.

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Anaren Launches Remote Temperature-Monitoring Kit for Cellular Networks

The Wireless Group of Anaren Inc. has launched a Cellular Machines product line.

Finnish Mine Uses RFID Tech to Track Workers, Trucks, Detonators

For the past five years, the Pyhäsalmi mine in central Finland has been using passive high-frequency RFID tags to record when workers enter or leave a mine shaft. Since that time, says Kimmo Luukkonen, the mine's managing director, the technology has improved management's visibility into who is underground and when, and hence has increased its safety program's efficiency and accuracy. The company plans to expand that RFID solution to monitor who carries explosive detonators into the mine.

APICS Introduces Online CPIM Exam Simulator

APICS, an association of supply-chain and operations-management professionals, has developed the APICS CPIM Exam Simulator.

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How Do You Keep Your Lean Program Going?

Once you have your lean journey underway, how do you sustain it? How do you build it into the bricks and mortar, and the DNA, of the organization? We no longer want lean to be its own thing; we want it integrated into the organization.

Vast Majority of U.S. Imports Not Inspected for Consumer Safety

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which regulates 10,000 products ranging from apparel to household appliances, inspects less than 1 percent of imports under its jurisdiction. With the odds stacked against being detected, cost-cutting foreign manufacturers continue to supply dangerous goods to U.S. retailers.

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DB Schenker Teams With TÜV Rheinland on Transit Damage Detector

DB Schenker has partnered with TÜV Rheinland, a solar industry testing company, to develop a new system for detecting transit damage sustained by photovoltaic modules.

Tecsys Issues Visual Metrics Performance Measurement Suite

Tecsys Inc. has introduced Visual Metrics Performance Measurement Suite, a tool that provides performance analytics and dashboards for the organization's entire supply chain.

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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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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UPS Extends Special Commodities Program to 20 Destinations

UPS has expanded its International Special Commodities (ISC) program with the addition of 20 destinations.

This Is the Year for Predictive Risk Quantification to Emerge in Supply Chain Management

In the late 1680s, a group of ship owners, merchants and ships' captains - in essence, the supply chain managers of the day - transformed global commerce by "inventing" business insurance. In 2015, the insurance industry will return the favor by supporting supply chain innovation through sharing the tools that insurers have depended on to predict and quantify risk. How and why (now) will that happen? And what do supply chain stakeholders need to do?

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

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