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Reducing Lost and Orphaned Shipments: Four Strategies for Success

Customer service and fulfillment excellence are highly prioritized strategies for competitive performance. Increasingly, organizations find that for more effective, resilient and reliable supply chain execution in the areas of warehousing, shipping and procurement, more gains are realized by integrating these previously unconnected processes.

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New Software to Enforce Illegal Chemicals Supply Chain

Verify Brand, active in supply chain security software systems, says its new Verify Platform, a piece of advanced serialization, traceability and authentication software, could stop illegal, dangerous and counterfeit chemicals from entering a manufacturer's supply chain.

Should You Invest in a Supply Chain Control Tower?

We live in a time of incredible technological progress. Self-driving cars and self-flying drones have already arrived, and more intelligent machines are surely just over the horizon. For many in the supply chain management community, the next big technology is the "control tower". Millions of dollars have been spent marketing the idea that a control tower is the "intelligent" system of the future and the solution to your problems. What is a control tower and should you invest in one?

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Usefulness of That Retail Customer Information You've Collected Is Imperiled

You know all that CRM data you've been so lovingly collecting from loyalty programs, special offers, POS systems and any other way you could find to gather shopper information? It's about to be put at risk by a data broker - and not in the way you expected.

Mitigating FCPA Exposure in International Franchise and Distribution Relationships

Mitigating the risk of sanctions under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is a core concern in every international commercial transaction, including cross-border distribution and franchising relationships.

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Electronics Waste Often Shipped Illegally to Developing Nations

The disposal of computers and other electronic and electrical goods, e-waste, is a growing global problem, with much of the often dangerous junk winding up in emerging countries.

For Buyers and Suppliers, Supply-Chain Finance Pays Off

With every crisis comes opportunity. The Great Recession, which choked off access to capital and placed suppliers around the world in economic jeopardy, triggered the growth of supply-chain finance programs, benefiting suppliers and buyers alike.

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Accellos Integrates TMS With Rand McNally's Mobile Devices

Accellos Inc. has integrated its Prophesy Dispatch transportation-management software (TMS) with Rand McNally's in-cab mobile fleet-management devices.

Companies Begin Taking the Cyber Battle to the Hacker

With worries about data breaches and privacy violations mounting by the day, corporations are becoming more aggressive about preventing physical and financial losses, experts say. In some cases, they add, that can involve counterattacks against hackers.

How to Stop Cargo Theft From Stealing Your Profits

Movie heists often involve sophisticated tools and brilliant plans that depend on crack timing in order to succeed. Not so in real life.

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Is There a Return to Focus on Core Services by Ocean Carriers?

A mixture of financial necessity and commercial reality is further forcing ocean carriers to return to providing core services only. Shipping lines are still being squeezed out of providing home-grown integrated logistics services. This is evidenced by Maersk's recent news that it has entered into an agreement to sell the assets of its U.S. trucking subsidiary, Bridge Terminal Transport.

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

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

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