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Wavelink Enables Speakeasy Support on Velocity Platform

Wavelink has enabled support for Speakeasy, its voice-driven warehouse picking system for mobile devices, on the Velocity platform.

SAP Ariba Offers Collaborative Sourcing Professional App

SAP Ariba has developed Ariba Collaborative Sourcing Professional, the latest addition to its sourcing applications.

Real-Time Location System Enables Clinic to Keep Tabs on Patients, Employees, Assets

Since opening last month, the new Stanford Children's Health Specialty Services - Sunnyvale clinic has received the best patient satisfaction survey results of any of Stanford Children's Health 60-some facilities. The health-care company attributes the high patient satisfaction levels, in large part, to a real-time location system that enables the staff to find patients, personnel and assets efficiently, says Lee Kwiatkowski, Stanford Children's Health's director of ambulatory transformation.

China - Now an Upper-Middle-Income Nation - Has Some Hard Economic Decisions to Make

It won't be easy, but shifting to a productivity-led economy from one focused on investment could add trillions of dollars to China's growth by 2030.

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Natural Gas No. 1 Energy Source for U.S. Electricity, Beginning to Overtake Coal Globally

Natural gas has crept past coal as the largest source of electric energy in the United States and is now gaining globally, opening new markets for drillers, processors and transport companies.

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Scan-Based Trading Technology Isn't Going Away. Distributors Need to Adapt to That Reality

Scan-based trading (SBT) is often thought of as a process solely for larger big box retailers. This business model transitions the relationship with suppliers from purchased inventory to vendor-managed inventory, with the checkout scan data serving as the channel to pay for the goods to the distributor. The data collected from the transactions is then delivered to the distributor, as a form of a receipt.

MercuryGate Integrates TMS With Thoroughbred Direct Portal

MercuryGate International Inc. has entered into a partnership with Thoroughbred Direct Intermodal Services, Inc. (TDIS), a subsidiary of Norfolk Southern Railroad.

To Attract Millennials, Manufacturers Need to Show Them the Technology

Manufacturers are recruiting to attract skilled labor to a growing number of positions and to replenish a workforce from which baby boomers are retiring at a rapid pace. By 2025, there will be two million unfilled manufacturing jobs, according to a study by the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte Consulting.

Distributor of Fasteners Offers RFID Service That Automatically Replenishes Parts

Endries International, a distributor of fasteners and related production supplies, is offering its customers an RFID-driven service that automatically replenishes parts inventory. The service is designed to help its customers prevent out-of-stocks, speed up replenishment times and reduce the amount of inventory they need to keep on hand.

Cloud Usage in Manufacturing, Engineering to Triple by 2017, Study Finds

Global manufacturing companies say they have realized good results by adopting cloud applications, and they plan to accelerate cloud use dramatically by 2017 - especially in their manufacturing, engineering and operations groups. Some of the biggest benefits have come from lower IT costs, higher employee productivity, better data visibility and gains in process automation.

A Guide to Managed Sourcing: Successful Technology Implementation Requires the Power of People

Technology is an invaluable asset for sourcing teams, but it's not the end-all and be-all. In fact, for many organizations, evaluating vendors and deploying procurement technology can quickly become a major headache due to a lack of differentiation, long implementation time-lines and steep learning curves. Even when implementation goes smoothly, many procurement departments find themselves in a precarious position following deployment - they have a new, powerful technology at their disposal, but not enough people or internal resources to fully take advantage of its benefits and functionality.

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Global Pallet Manufacturing, Use Driven by Four Main Trends

The top four emerging trends driving the global pallet market are greater emphasis on automation processes and use of new technologies, vertical integration by companies, growing preference for block pallets, and the rise in power of pallet pooling companies, according to Technavio transportation and logistics research analysts.

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