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HP Blazes a New Route Out of China

Tired of dealing with slow ships and congested ports to get your product out of China? Why not take the train?

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Voice Picking in a Low-Temperature Environment

Picking in a frozen environment with heavy gloves, paper and pencil impaired the productivity and accuracy of operations at Perry's Ice Cream in Akron, N.Y. A voice-picking system from Vocollect enabled Perry's to solve these problems and gain other benefits.

Sales of Small Applicances to Surpass Those of Larger Items by 2019, Study Says

Small appliances volume sales will surpass major appliances and grow by 22 percent globally by 2019, according to research by Euromonitor International. Global consumer interest is turning towards small appliances, such as air treatment, cooking appliances and vacuum cleaners, which reflects the huge demands for health care and life-enhancing products. More than half of global sales of these products are coming from China, followed by France, Japan and Turkey.

By 2035, Three Fourths of Vehicles Sold Expected to Be Partially Autonomous, Study Finds

The proportion of vehicles sold worldwide with some degree of autonomous capability is expected to reach 75 percent by 2035, according to a recent report from Navigant Research.

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Just in Time for Holidays, 3D Printing Comes to Retail

Those watching the 3D printing category can now look beyond office supply retailers. Target is now offering 3D printing for small decorative and gift items for the holidays.

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Three Tipping Points for RFID in the World of Fashion

In recent years, a growing number of retail RFID use cases have clearly demonstrated the benefits of being able to track inventory at the item level, leading to better shelf replenishment and fewer out of stocks. Many retailers quantify the benefits of reducing out of stocks not just at the item level (potential lost sales) but at the transaction level, since retailers closely track the number of items that comprise the average transaction (e.g. 3.6 items/sale). Using that example, an out-of-stock item (especially in a core category such as denim) could result in lost sales of an additional 2.6 items that were to be purchased with it.

Epicor Unveils App for Auto Aftermarket; Acquires QuantiSense

Epicor Software Corp. has introduced new business-management software for the automotive aftermarket.

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VW's Uruguayan Importer Uses RFID to Track Maintenance Tools

For the past four years, Julio Cesar Lestido S.A., the official Uruguayan importer of cars and trucks manufactured by the Volkswagen Group, has been employing passive ultrahigh-frequency RFID tags to track the metal tools it uses to maintain vehicles. The company says that it is now developing a plan to utilize the technology to record each vehicle's life history, including its date of import and sales information, as well as all maintenance provided.

With Ability to Use Metals, 3D Printing Will Be 'Game Changer' in Industrial Machinery Production

Industrial machinery production - which represents $1.6tr of the $3.8tr global industrial capital expenditure spending in 2013 - is the area to be most dramatically affected by advancing 3D printing technology, says Alex Chausovksy, senior principal analyst, industrial automation, at IHS.

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The Cloud Really Helps Get All Trading Partners' Systems Aligned. Right?

In the world of supply chains, signing on a new partner or trading partner has typically marked the beginning of a marathon. Whether by electronic data interchange, EDIFACT, cXML, ebXML, value added networks, portals or the rest of the alphabet soup of connectivity approaches, a great deal of time and effort is required to get trading partners’ systems aligned - even if trading hubs are involved. Every company has a different system, and different processes for getting things done. For a company with thousands of trading partners, imagine how much in resources it gobbles up just to manage and keep every partnership aligned. Of course, cloud changes all that right?

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Can Square - the Mobile Credit Card Reader System - Fend Off Its Many, Many Competitors?

Four years ago, when its little card reader attachments for phones and tablets began to show up in cabs and at farmers' markets, Square was one of the coolest, most innovative companies in Silicon Valley. That's over.

Kewill Expands Software Platform for Multimodal Transportation

Kewill, a vendor of supply-chain execution software, has added features to its transportation-management platform, dubbed Kewill MOVE on the Cloud.

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