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For Supply Chain Security, Retailer Looks to Freight Payment

Challenge: As with all companies, fraud and information security were top of mind for this major national retailer. To protect its strategic and competitive advantages – and those of its partners – the retailer needed a payment solution that could also safeguard its supply chain.

Opinion: The Danger From Low-Skilled Immigrants Is Not Having Them

Let's just say it plainly: The United States needs more low-skilled immigrants.

Hanjin Shipping Says Bankruptcy Claims Top $10Bn

South Korea's Hanjin Shipping Co., which roiled global trade and temporarily marooned more than half a million cargo containers when it filed for bankruptcy, says it has raised only a fraction of what it needs to repay creditors, whose claims total about $10.5bn.

Post-Brexit Customs Checks Might Cost $1.3Bn a Year

Brexit could cost £1bn ($1.3bn) a year in extra customs checks and huge border delays, a consultant has claimed.

Pentagon Approves Use of Force Against Drones

The U.S. military branches are free to shoot down or otherwise remove unauthorized drones flying too close to military bases, according to newly declassified Pentagon guidelines.

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.

Smuggling Supply Chain: The Middlemen Who Trade ISIS Loot

A stream of plundered antiquities flowing out of Syria and Iraq to Western art collectors is dependent on men like Muhammad hajj Al-Hassan.

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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).

Blockchain Company Launches Digital Currency to Reduce Cargo No-Shows

Hong Kong-based company 300cubits is aiming to partially replace U.S. dollars in the container shipping industry with tokens soon to be launched on Ethereum - an open-source, public, blockchain-based platform.

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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.

Opinion: The Shared Economy Could Kill Global Supply Chains

After the second World War, companies looked outside their walls and built global supply chains to create the scale they alone could not produce. Now, we are in a next phase of manufacturing, where managers are beginning to explore outside their supply chains to unlock the power of the shared economy.

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