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Oracle Announces IoT Cloud Tools With Better Visibility and Predictive Analytics

Oracle is expanding its Internet of Things (IoT) portfolio with four new cloud solutions to help businesses with their digital supply chains, the software company says. These solutions enable businesses to detect, analyze, and respond to IoT signals and incorporate these insights into existing and rapidly evolving market capabilities.

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Suzuken Group Deploys RFID-Enabled Coolers for Drug Tracking

Japanese healthcare and pharmaceuticals company Suzuken Group is deploying an RFID-based solution from AmerisourceBergen to manage the locations and statuses of medications at clinics, hospitals and retail locations, as well as in transportation vehicles. The system employs the RFID-based drug-management solution known as Cubixx, supplied by AmerisourceBergen's specialty pharmaceutical distributor division, ASD Healthcare.

Healthcare Supply Chain Redesign and Waging War on Chronic Disease

During the week of inauguration I was in Washington. A steady breeze blew on a warm winter day. Flags were flying. It was beautifully prepped and there was a lump in my throat. Even though I did not attend the ceremony in person, I felt the excitement of the inauguration. I whistled and walked with a spring in my step. I am proud to live in a country where power transitions are peaceful. As a political junkie, I anxiously watch the events unfold in the Trump administration. One of the top debates is healthcare. Here I offer a supply chain view.

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With Everything About Trump, What's a Designer to Do?

The night President and Mrs. Trump had dinner at Mar-a-Lago with the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan and his wife, Akie Abe - after a nice round of golf and a garden tour, before North Korea necessitated an impromptu news conference - Alexander Wang dragged his audience up to the crumbling abandoned RKO Hamilton Theater on 146th Street in Harlem and jammed everyone into a standing-room-only area that once housed orchestra seats and now framed a raised runway.

Autonomous Vehicles Could Reduce Windfarm Costs

A collaboration between Heriot-Watt University's Ocean Systems Laboratory and the Smart Systems Group has received funding to deliver a human-robotics hybrid solution for the maintenance and operation of offshore windfarms.

Prime Vision to Offer RFID-Enabled Packaging System

Electronics manufacturer Thin Film Electronics ASA (Thinfilm) and Dutch logistics solutions provider Prime Vision are teaming up to develop an RFID-enabled smart packaging system. Prime Vision is utilizing Thinfilm's OpenSense and SpeedTap Near Field Communication (NFC) tags as it develops its new solution.

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SAP: Lenovo's 'Disciplined' Supply Chain Drives Global Leadership

"Lenovo's been the number one PC company for over three years now," says Gerry Smith, an executive vice president at Lenovo and president of its Data Center Group, in a recent video.

3 Ways to Boost Healthcare Supply Chain Savings and Efficiencies

The Affordable Care Act has had a massive effect on the US healthcare industry. Consumers want their healthcare insurers to stem increases in premiums, deductibles, and co-pays. And these demands, along with increased enrollment, additional regulatory compliance, and tighter operating budgets have all added to the pressure on healthcare supply chain executives to improve efficiencies.

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Joining the Leading Edge of Supply Chain Automation

Every day the frontiers of the global supply chain expand with greater automation and more innovative technologies, such as 3D printing, additive manufacturing, autonomous robots, and cloud-based IT systems. Customers, distributors, manufacturers, and suppliers can seize the opportunity to be more connected than at any other time in history. The results for businesses: faster time to market, better responsiveness to customer needs, and increased efficiency.

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3 Strategies for Assessing Your Warehousing and Distribution Plan

If your downstream supply chain needs help, you're not alone. Suboptimal warehouses, worker shortages, complex processes, or outdated technology are some of the most common culprits, not to mention the havoc created by e-commerce and other competitive and disruptive threats.

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Getting Closer to Customers with Outsourced Warehousing and Distribution

When a suburban movie theater finds that its digital projector lamps have burned out, it needs replacements fast, or else it will face the wrath of angry movie patrons. The supplier may be based two time zones away, but fortunately it has a regional network of contract warehouses that stock its high-value specialty parts, allowing local service technicians to pick up what they need and fix the problem the same day they get a call, 24/7, 365 days a year.1

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Here's How U.S. Trade Differs With Mexico and China

Depending on who you ask, it's either the best of times or the worst of times for global trade. Protectionists villainize trade as damaging to U.S. workers, while on the other side of the coin pure laissez faire free traders consider trade as a pure positive for the United States.

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