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Complete Supply Chain Visibility of All Your Carriers!

Challenge: Difficulty to get accurate and timely location updates on brokered loads. Traditional in-cab solutions are too costly to install and too difficult to deploy to all outside carriers.

High-tech Retailer Combats Tumultuous Growth Period with Supply Chain Visibility

Challenge: This high tech company was acquired and entered a period of rapid growth through a series of additional acquisitions. Behind the scenes, this company's supply chain had to keep pace with this growth - a tall order in a time of change.

IBM Expands Portfolio of Offerings to Enhance Consumer Experience

IBM has expanded its portfolio of cloud-based applications and cognitive technologies to enhance customer interactions.

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Retail Returns: An Opportunity to Drive Revenue Through Reverse Logistics

Returns have long been the bane of the retail industry. Brands and retailers know that a certain percentage of their sales are going to result in a returned product, whether it's an ill-fitting piece of clothing, an unwanted gift or a product that just doesn't work. It's part of the business, and returns are a critical part of the retail lifecycle.

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Electrical Distributors, Manufacturers Need to Work on Relationship, Study Finds

After surveying 246 National Association of Electrical Distributors companies (102 distributors and 144 manufacturers) for the recent Reimagining Distributor and Manufacturer Relationships study, the message came through loud and clear: Both distributors and manufacturers need to put more time and effort into strengthening their supply chain relationships.

DHS Warns Industrial Control Systems Face More Cyber Threats

The threat of more cyber attacks is very real, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

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ERP Is Must-Have, But Should It Be On-Premise, Cloud or Hybrid?

Enterprise resource planning software is a must-have for manufacturers today. The business management software system, usually consisting of a number of integrated applications, is ubiquitous across the manufacturing arena and many other business verticals. Until fairly recently this software was almost always held on-premise, using servers on-site. But the growth of the cloud and cloud-hosted software solutions in general has had its effect on ERP, and most large vendors (and many smaller ones too) now offer ERP solutions in a variety of deployment options, including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid (a combination of both).

Clean Energy Could Reduce Cost of Desalination Process

Desalination is typically an energy-intensive - and thus expensive - way to produce freshwater, which is one of the reasons it has been slow to take off as a widespread solution to water shortages.

Southeast Asian E-Commerce Market Zooms, But Region's Airfreight Capability Lags

Although a new study by Google and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund Temasek projects the Southeast Asian e-commerce market to reach $200bn by 2025, the region's air cargo capabilities remain underdeveloped, according to Cainiao, the logistics unit of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

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Eradicating Slavery From Supply Chains, Part 2

Struggling to determine whether there's forced labor lurking in your supply chain? There are some new tools available to help you do it.

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To Be Proactive to Consumer Demand, Electronics Supply Chain Needs Big Data Strategy

Perhaps no industry deals with volatility in consumer demand quite as much as consumer electronics.

Retailers Try to 'Save the Sale' Only 7 Percent of the Time, Study Shows

Retailers can no longer wait to adopt BOPIS - the ability to buy online, pick up in store - according to a report from Kibo, a cloud-based omnichannel commerce platform provider. But a small percentage, only percent 7 percent, act to ensure that a sale is made.

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