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Taming Supply Chain Complexity

For Xilinx Inc., a supplier of programmable logic devices, the focus is more on speed than optimization, says Alex Brown, vice president of supply chain.

Improving Production Planning Efficiency

Speed and accuracy are everything to a company, says Jenny Balderrama, production planner at Keysight Technologies. All too often, however, speed is associated with orders arriving rather the ability to meet them. And accurate forecasting? Forget that.

Thomas Pink Piloting IoT System With RFID to Manage Inventory, Traffic

U.K.-based luxury clothing and shirt retailer Thomas Pink launched an Internet of Things pilot at its Wall Street store in New York City this month that features ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID technology to track the movement of merchandise in real time throughout the business, and RetailNext camera-based technology.

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PETA Helps Vegan Fashion Designers See the Path to Future Growth

As the vegan lifestyle merges into the mainstream, fashion designers who appeal to that market strive to grow their business to the next level with venture capital and an organized supply chain. At a panel hosted by PETA in Los Angeles, designers from Vaute Couture, Delikate Rayne, Nicora Shoes and Susi Studio shared their strategies for sticking to their ethos of eschewing animal-based products while tapping into conventional business practices adopted by the apparel industry.

Tesla: Battery Revolution Just Reached Critical Mass

Tesla Motors Inc. is making a huge bet that millions of small batteries can be strung together to help kick fossil fuels off the grid. The idea is a powerful one - one that's been used to help justify the company's $5bn factory near Reno, Nev. - but batteries have so far only appeared in a handful of true, grid-scale pilot projects.

Activists Are Most Likely to Target These Types of Firms, Study Says

With the uncertainty that accompanies any changing of the guard in Washington, businesses and the stock market can get nervous. This year, however, the uncertainty is intensified by deep partisan discord among politicians, who have the power to alter the business landscape through policy, as well as citizens, who may turn to activism in an effort to have their voices heard.

Platt Retail Institute Finds RFID-Based Inventory Accuracy, Sales Gains at Macy's

The use of radio frequency identification technology at Macy's stores has boosted the global retailer's rate of on-shelf display compliance and overall inventory accuracy, while also lifting customer satisfaction and enhancing omnichannel fulfillment based on in-store, single-unit accuracy, according to a report released by The Platt Retail Institute (PRI), developed in cooperation with the Northwestern Retail Analytics Council (RAC).

BP: Global Energy Demand to Increase 30 Percent by 2035

BP's Energy Outlook predicts that global energy demand will increase about 30 percent by 2035, driven by increasing prosperity in developing countries, partially offset by rapid gains in energy efficiency.

Top 5 Trends for Internet of Things This Year

Last year was a transformative and exciting year for the Internet of Things as we saw almost every industry invest in the IoT.

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SAP Takes on More Cloud Customers As It Seeks Smaller Deals

SAP SE raised its targets for 2020 as customers bought its latest suite of applications at a faster pace, and Chief Executive Officer Bill McDermott - a fan of Donald Trump's "The Art of the Deal," - said he wouldn't "lay off the accelerator" on acquisitions, engineering investment or a potential share buyback.

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Luxury Clothing Retailer Is Innovating Wall Street Store With IoT Platform

Luxury clothing retailer Thomas Pink says it has deployed the Acuitas Digital Internet of Things (IoT) platform, which helps retailers to digitize the physical store, at its Wall Street store in New York City.

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