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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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Multibillion-dollar Deals Drive Retail, Consumer M&A Activity in Early 2014

U.S. retail and consumer merger & acquisition activity during the first quarter of 2014 was primarily driven by five multibillion-dollar transactions, with more than half aligned to the food and beverage sector, confirming a positive deals outlook for the year, according to PwC's U.S. retail and consumer deals insights Q1 2014 report.

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Google, Amazon in Same-Day Delivery Battle in Los Angeles

Google and Amazon are going head to head over Los Angeles area shoppers, launching same-day delivery services in the area within days of each other.

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Resilinc Offers Corporate Social Responsibility Module in SupplyIntel

Resilinc Corp., a vendor of applications for supply-chain resiliency, has made available the SupplyIntel CSR (corporate social responsibility) Module.

Dassault Systèmes Issues Global Visibility App for Food and Beverage

Dassault Systèmes has released its Global Visibility for Food & Beverage application for manufacturers.

JDA Debuts Supply-Chain Software Suite for Distribution

JDA Software Group Inc. has developed the Distribution-Centric Supply Chain Suite.

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Purchasers of Industrial Supplies Make Broad Use of E-commerce, Survey Finds

A shift is underway for distributors of industrial supplies and the e-commerce experience they provide to their customers. In 2013, more than 63 percent of industrial supply buyers said they made purchases online, with half of those purchasers spending at least 50 percent of their annual budget with suppliers who have an e-commerce platform.

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Logistics Challenges in Mexico

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The Horizontal Carousel Comes to Retail Distribution

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Direct Store Delivery Could Save CPG Companies a Bundle, Survey Says

Consumer goods suppliers can save millions of dollars by evaluating and improving direct store delivery (DSD) operations — the way that products are ordered, sold, delivered and merchandised — according to a report from Honeywell.

Airlines' Dynamic Pricing Model Comes to the Supply Chain

Tom Bacon, consultant with Revenue Optimization, discusses how supply chains can embrace the model of dynamic pricing that was pioneered by the airline industry.

Should You Use a Regional Parcel Carrier?

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

Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

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

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