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Coping With the Nightmare of Consumer-Product Recalls

My previous post covered the difficulty of tracing and ensuring the quality of automotive and aerospace parts. The job is just as tough for consumer packaged goods and food producers.

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Was Toyota's Move to Texas Because of Lower Taxes - or Location, Location, Location?

Toyota's plan to close its Torrance headquarters and ship 3,000 jobs to a Dallas suburb has triggered a new round of hand-wringing among those who see business-friendly Texas gaining at the expense of regulation-choked California.

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Logistics Challenges in Mexico

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In Automotive and Aerospace, Every Part Matters

Think it's tough tracking finished goods from source to sale? Trying doing the same for the millions of parts that go into them.

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You Can't Make a Car with 3D Printing, But You Can Produce a Jet Engine

The 3D printing market is expected to quadruple over the next decade to $12bn, moving from its main use today of creating prototypes to the most complex of production parts, according to Lux Research.

U.S. Likely to See More 'Rightshoring' of Manufacturing

A conversation with Ron Tarter, senior vice president, Eastern Operations, for Flextronics.

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Manufacturer Increases Visibility and Marketshare with Acsis ProducTrak

Challenge: This leading global manufacturer needed to connect over 125 incremental value-add partners to its SAP system to manage the supply chain effectively end-to-end.

Proprietary Software Improves Visibility of Returned Products

Challenge: A major national retailer of home improvement products was plagued by an inefficient reverse logistics process. Products returned to vendor were controlled on an ad-hoc basis by individual stores or regions, creating major disruptions and poor visibility throughout the supply chain.

Our Client Takes the Wheel with a Machine-to-Machine Solution

Challenge: Our client collects, reports, and analyzes fleet vehicle data before, during, and after trips. They needed Machine-to-Machine connectivity for sensitive communications from vehicles to back-end systems. To maintain their rapid business growth, they wanted an easily managed solution with international reach.

Supply Chain's Carbon Impact: More Than a Footprint

Carbon footprint: What a misleading metaphor that is.

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Premium Automotive Brands Hope SUV, Crossover Model Lines Bring Global Sales Growth

The world's leading automotive premium brands are looking to achieve significant growth between now and the end of the decade with the launch of new models, including expansion of their sport utility vehicle and crossover model lines. Some brands, such as Jaguar and Maserati, will be entering these segments for the first time.

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CPG Eliminates Delays and Theft by Investing at the Border

Challenge: A leading food provider that ships fresh fruit from Mexico was impacted by two major issues. 1. Delayed deliveries. When it looked closer into milestone events they found all delays were occurring when trucks went through customs. The delays were having a direct impact on goods quality. 2. Missing trucks and drivers. Drivers in Mexico were being kidnapped.

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

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