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ThermoFisher Scientific: Why Good Risk Management Is Crucial to Product Quality

Lee Young, director of supplier quality with ThermoFisher Scientific, discusses how technology and business-process change have helped the company to tighten up its risk-management program.

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Air Canada Cargo Uses RFID Technology to Track Movement of Containers

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is hardly a cutting-edge technology. The system of scanning and identifying objects through the use of radio waves has roots that reach back to World War II. Since then, it's been used in countless tracking systems to monitor the movement of trucks and goods.

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B2B Commerce Become Buying Method of Choice in Electrical Industry

The numbers are in and all signs point to a future saturated with business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce sales. Following in the footsteps of its business-to-consumer (B2C) cousin, B2B e-commerce is quickly becoming the shopping and purchasing method of choice for a wide range of buyers - including customers in the electrical industry.

Scandit Launches Platform for Mobile Data Capture

Scandit, a developer of software-based barcode-scanning technology for smartphones, tablets and wearable devices, has launched Scandit Flow.

How Cloud Can Be Supplied to Human Resources Now

Born two or three years after the invention of the World Wide Web, and just 12 or 13 years old when the invention of the smartphone changed everything, the latest cohort of millennials just graduated from college last spring. Now they are entering the workforce, where they will be joining their "digital native" predecessors, who already make up more than half of the workforce. And they are even more immersed in the technology and culture of the internet than their forerunners were.

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RFID Solution Tested to Provide Temperature, Location of Foods, Pharmaceuticals

A European McDonald's restaurant operator is one of several companies piloting an RFID-based solution designed to provide real-time temperature and location data regarding such items as fresh food, pharmaceuticals and other temperature-sensitive products, from the point of harvesting or manufacture to the consumer.

Robots Could Cut Amazon's Fulfillment Costs by Estimated $2.5Bn

Amazon has about 30,000 Kiva robots scuttling about its warehouses across the globe. Dave Clark, the retailer's senior vice president of worldwide operations and customer service, estimated the addition of the bots reduced operating expenses by about 20 percent.

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Embraer Taps Alcoa as Sole Supplier of Aluminum for E2 Commercial Aircraft Line

Lightweight metals leader Alcoa has entered into a long-term contract with Embraer valued at approximately $470m to supply aluminum sheet and plate for E2s, the second generation of the Brazilian manufacturer's E-Jets family of commercial aircraft.

Market for Point-of-Sale Terminals to Reach $8Bn by 2020, Research Suggests

The global point-of-sale terminals market is expected to reach close to $8bn in revenue by 2020, according to Technavio's Global POS Terminals Market report.

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Create - and Dominate - Product Category if You Want Your Company to Stand Apart from Others

Think different. Apple's Steve Jobs drummed that message into consumers for many years and it was core to the company's identity and its meteoric growth.

Cybersecurity Is Company-wide Effort, Not Something Left Totally Up to the Chief Information Security Officer

Thanks to the constant stream of mega-breaches, cybersecurity has moved from the server room to the boardroom. While it's become evident that cyber defense requires board-level input and attention, translating deeply technical cybersecurity and risk factors into business terms has been an ongoing struggle.

The Maturing of Risk Management at IBM

Louis Ferretti, project executive for global procurement with IBM, traces the history of the company's risk-management initiative, to its current use of sophisticated technology and business processes.

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