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Often-Overlooked Insurance Provision Helps Apparel Industry Defend Intellectual Property Suits

The intellectual property litigation trend in the fashion and apparel industry does not appear to be going out of style anytime soon. Fashion and apparel companies routinely face allegations of copyright, trademark and trade dress infringement.

Number of Manufacturing Jobs Reportedly Repatriated to U.S. Is Disputed

This election season, we've heard Republican and Democratic presidential candidates alike decry international trade deals for sending manufacturing jobs overseas. And candidates have vowed to bring the jobs back. Some factory work is indeed returning from offshore, a movement known as "re-shoring."

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A Cryptocurrency Makes a Bid for Legitimacy

Cryptocurrency: The very word suggests shady dealings. But a new purveyor of an alternative digital payment method - to put it in more mundane terms - is seeking to change that.

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To Advance Business Strategy, Technology Must Be Embedded in 'Integrated Strategy Machine'

This is an age of techno-utopianism. Topics like big data, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence are at the forefront of the CEO agenda, a sign that companies see technology as a potential answer to many or even most of their challenges.

How Supply Chain Drives Success at Grocery Giant Tesco

Does a big grocery retail chain have anything to learn from a leading automaker?

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Extract Maximum Value from Your Sourcing Process

Supplier integration is the disruptive innovation that can drive your sourcing strategy beyond cost savings and supply chain management. With rising competition and advancing technology, supplier integration has become the change agent creating tremendous opportunity for sourcing agencies.

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Following Merger, eBay Enterprise Re-brands as Radial

EBay Enterprise has merged with Innotrac to create a new type of enterprise as an omnichannel commerce technology and solutions provider called Radial.

Wondering Where to Start in Managing Your Company's Supply Chain Emissions?

Today, most major companies publicly report their emissions to CDP, an international corporate emissions platform. As sustainability managers know, corporate emissions come from a variety of sources, which are grouped into "scopes."

Specialty Chemical Companies Successfully Align Supply Chains, Business Objectives

Chemical companies are usually considered quite conservative. But according to McKinsey and Company research, the chemical sector is among the highest-performing industries. Total return to shareholders for chemicals is nearly double that of the world equity market, and the CAGR for the period from June 2008 to March 2015 for the chemical industry runs about 9 percent, compared to 6 percent for all markets. Clearly the industry has been doing something right.

Asian Cities Top Worldwide Development of Shopping Centers

Asia dominated global shopping-center development last year, claiming nine of the 10 busiest global markets for retail construction, according to a report released by CBRE Group, Inc. Overall, global retail space under development increased last year to 451 million square feet from 420 million in 2014.

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Pollution Threatens U.S., Canadian West Coast Fishing Industry

The West Coast's abundant fisheries are at risk as the region's waters become more acidic, a group of scientists warn.

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SAP Ariba Partners With PrimeRevenue in Financing Platform

SAP Ariba is partnering with PrimeRevenue to create a multi-funder supply-chain financing platform, as part of an integrated source-to-pay process.

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