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Risk Management and Customer Segmentation at Dell

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Is Your Plant Floor Having Unprotected Communication?

To remain competitive in today's fast-paced, global environment, manufacturers are adopting newly designed, high-speed wireless networks to help take better control of plant operations. Engineers and operators are being armed with iPads, laptops and high-speed scanners running on these networks to bring their facilities up-to-date with instantaneous, real-time communication.

Optimizing Global Logistics at Crossbeam

Crossbeam, a provider of enterprise network security solutions, found it struggled with meeting same-day and next-day delivery requirements mandated in its service-level agreements, says Jim Curley, director, manufacturing & technical operations. It needed automated export compliance from a company with a global footprint, says John Miller, senior vice president, global business development, Flash Global Logistics.

LG Joins EPA's Green Power Partnership with 100 Percent Green Energy Use for Its Headquarters

LG Electronics USA is purchasing more than 1.5 million kWh of green power over the next 18 months in cooperation with the EPA's Green Power Partnership program, the company said.

You DON'T Have a Mobile Strategy Because Mobility Differs from Anything You've Seen Before

Mobile is completely different from anything you've done before, and you need to throw conventional wisdom onto the dust heap of out-of-date thinking. You may have a bunch of people in business and IT that are telling you how you should approach mobile, but beware. They might not even recognize that mobile is different in every way from previous technology waves.

ALK Releases New Version of CoPilot Truck Navigation Aid

ALK Technologies Inc. is offering a new version of CoPilot Truck, its vehicle-specific GPS navigation aid for professional drivers.

Here's Why Most Linear Barcode Coupons on Smartphones Just Don't Work

There has been enough hype about mobile shopping in general and mobile coupons in particular that you could easily be forgiven if you thought coupons and loyalty cards on mobile phones were a done deal, already available and in use today. The elephant in the room is that the bright clean crisp barcode image you see displayed on your smartphone's screen cannot be read by the majority of barcode scanners used in retail today.

Skills for Supply Chain 2.0

From sourcing to delivery, the supply chain is now the most horizontal function in the enterprise, says Tony Pittman, director of global procurement at HP. And any role that has such wide-ranging impact, from how money is spent to affecting the customer's experience, needs highly trained managers and workers.

Best Buy Embarks on 'Transformational' Plan to Combat Online Competition

Weighed down by the size of its big-box stores and facing competition from more nimble online-only competitors, Best Buy is embarking on a "transformational strategy," its executives said. For the company's finance chief, Jim Muehlbauer, that will mean dealing with $800m in cost cuts over the next three years.

Memo to Supply Managers: Cyber-attacks Will Happen, So Protect Customers' Information

Cyber-security breaches at major companies grab headlines as legislatures and regulators at the state, federal and international levels develop "rules of the road" for protecting information, especially consumers' personal data. Supply management professionals should be concerned that their systems and/or employees may be exposing their organizations to data breaches - opening the company to lawsuits, governmental enforcement actions and significant reputation damage.

BT's Role in the Global Supply Chain

BT Global Services provides managed networked IT services for business and government organizations around the world. Its expertise begins at home, says Keith Sherry, the company's general manager of supply chain solutions. BT procures some $16bn in products and services for 30,000 engineers and 1.3 million customers.

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