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Have Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Really Delivered on Their Promise?

Enterprise resource planning systems, once regarded as a marvel of technology, have turned out to be anything but.

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Effective CRM Requires Changing the Way You Collect, Analyze Data

If the customer is "at the center of everything," so, too, should be a company's system for managing customer relationships. In other words, customer relationship management software needs to be more than just a way to handle queries about products or fielding feedback from clients.

Suppliers Hear News Loud and Clear: Demand for iPhone Dips

Suppliers are feeling the pinch of slackening demand for Apple's iconic iPhone, while the shortfall in sales growth could also affect component prices.

Should 'Supply Chain' Give Way to 'Supply Web'?

The term "Web 2.0" refers to the current state of online technology as it compares to the early days of the Web, and is characterized by greater user interactivity and collaboration, more pervasive network connectivity and enhanced communication channels.

Five Things Apparel Manufacturers Should Consider Before Re-shoring

Challenged by fast fashion, prompted by speed to market and buoyed by thoughts of small runs/low inventory levels, reshoring or the return of manufacturing for a company and its brands to its country of origin (COO) has sparked continuing interest in the best strategies for market entry and what it takes to succeed once you are there.

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Consumer-Generated Content Gives Turtle Wax Website New Shine

Turtle Wax drove 1.3 million page views with its content when it added consumer-generated content to its website. The goal for Turtle Wax was to transform a static website into a dynamic place where showcasing its products was a priority.

Distributors Have Possibility to Converge B2B, B2C Markets

In today's business world, technology has opened the door to reaching and attaining a whole new customer base. The development of e-commerce has presented distributors with the opportunity to target not only businesses but also the individual consumer, converging the B2B and B2C markets.

Cost of 3D Printing Expected to Drop this Year as More Vendors Enter Field

In a further sign of the falling barriers to hardware innovation, the price of 3D printing machines is expected to fall 6.4 percent in 2016, according to a report by market research firm IBISWorld.

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HVAC Systems Market to Achieve $340Bn in Sales By 2024

Global revenue from commercial energy-efficient HVAC systems is expected to total $340bn from 2015 to 2024, according to a report from Navigant Research.

The Emerging Compliance 'Hot Topic' for 2016: Regulations Regarding Trafficked, Coerced Labor

In many businesses, supply chain management historically has fallen outside the core of the company's compliance function. But that was then. A renewed push this year by state, federal and international regulators – not to mention consumer advocacy groups, NGOs and foreign legislatures – to conscript the business community into the fight against human trafficking and the use of child, indentured, forced and other forms of coerced labor has brought supply chain management to the front and center of the corporate compliance world.

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Responsible Supply Chains: Are We Willing to Pay the Price?

Are consumers really willing to pay more for a product that's environmentally sustainable and socially responsible? Depends on whom you ask.

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Innovative Solution Resolves Sticky Situation in Headliner Sub-assembly Process

Challenge: Our company faced a quality issue originating during our sub-assembly of headliners for a major customer, a Fortune 100 automotive OEM. Strands of the glue used to affix wiring harnesses and other parts to headliners’ C-surfaces were ending up on their A-surfaces as well and were not detected in the QA process. The problem was discovered after finished headliners were installed on vehicles. We needed to make detection easier and meet production cycle times and quality standards.

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

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