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Six Reasons Why Manufacturers Remain Reluctant to Let the Cloud Into Their Businesses

There is no shortage of software-as-a-service (SaaS)–based manufacturing enterprise resource planning software offerings nowadays, for almost any vertical manufacturing market segment. But while cloud and hosted solutions are routine for many types of business software across various industries, manufacturing businesses still express a lot of skepticism, uncertainty and concern about the applicability of cloud software to their business.

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Nakivo Updates Cloud-Based Data-Protection Application

Nakivo Inc., a provider of data-protection software for VMware virtualized environments and cloud backup, has released version 4.1 of Nakivo Backup & Replication.

Apparel Wholesaler Gets Retail Customers In and Out With Their Purchases Quicker with RFID Technology

Brazilian children's clothing wholesaler Brascol is tagging the merchandise that retailers buy at its wholesale outlet, and has installed RFID-enabled checkout system to enable faster purchases by those customers. The RFID system, supplied by iTag Technology, relies on RFID tags made with NXP Semiconductors' Ucode7 UHF chips to quickly identify a shopping cart's contents.

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CPG Manufacturer Uses Simulation Scenarios to Find Savings

Challenge: A large consumer goods manufacturer performed a strategic network design project to identify considerable savings in transportation costs, warehouse costs and inventory costs by consolidating warehouses. However, the inventory savings assumed full consolidation of inventory at the new warehouses; this was not consistent with the management incentives that were used in the business. An alternative suggestion of separate stocks for each market wiped out a large chunk of savings.

Large Packaged Foods Manufacturer Eliminates Redundancy in Supply Chain

Challenge: One of North America's largest packaged foods producers acquired a major frozen food manufacturer. With fuel costs on the rise, the company needed to re-evaluate their inbound and outbound distribution strategies given the expanded network. Specifically, which DCs should service which customers and what was the optimal quantity and location for DCs and what the fuel cost "tipping point" would be where the optimal network would not be advantageous.

CPG Brand Reduces Overall Logistics Costs by 11% with LLamasoft

Challenge: A major CPG brand needed to consolidate their supply chain to reduce redundancies, such as an overlapping network and shared demand to decrease overall costs, while still delivering products to customers in a timely manner.

Leading Shipper Leverages B2B Software to Improve Supply Chain Communication

Challenge: A large temperature-controlled carrier was looking for a way to send real-time status reports to all members of their supply chain. They were also growing rapidly and needed a solution that was able to on-board trading partners at a much faster rate.

Wholesale Supplier Turns to TMS to Improve Operational Decision Making

Challenge: This client, a wholesale supplier of entertainment hard goods, flourished in the order fulfillment space despite an atypical distribution model. Various systems, shipping modes, and customer types brought about operational and accounting issues and the need for a powerful enterprise TMS.

Manufacturer Automates Logistics Operations to Find 20% Freight Savings

Challenge: This client, a premier manufacturer of nutritional supplements for athletes and active-lifestyle individuals, experienced rapid growth that necessitated an automated logistical operation. Manually managing an entire supply chain operation led to numerous inefficiencies and unnecessary costs.

TMS Helps Large Food Manufacturer Realize Major Operational Benefits

Challenge: This manufacturing client of various food products including cereal, experienced rapid growth in its store-brand foods. A series of acquisitions of independent manufacturing operations meant inefficiencies in supply chain management, particularly in product delivery.

Advantech Releases New Mobile Computing Platform for Truckers

Advantech-DLoG, a vendor of mobile computing platforms, has released a new mobile data terminal, Plus Trek-303DH.

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While Dangers Remain, Supply Chain Risk Recorded at 18-Month Low

Global supply chain risk reached an 18-month low in Q2 2014, decreasing for three consecutive quarters for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis, according to the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply's (CIPS) latest CIPS Risk Index (CRI).

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