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Trucking Industry's Tale of Woe: Too Many Big Rigs

A glut of used big rigs is weighing down trucking companies already mired in a prolonged slump in the freight market.

A Look Inside Airbus's Epic Assembly Line

A confluence of political and economic forces has prompted Europe's largest airplane manufacturer to place a factory in Alabama - and to create one of the world's most gargantuan supply chains.

051717 A Look Inside Airbus

Microsoft to Build Artificial Intelligence Into Every Product, Service It Offers

Microsoft last week unveiled new tools intended to democratize artificial intelligence by enabling machine smarts to be built into software from smartphone games to factory floors.

A Map Like This Persuaded Trump to Save Nafta - For Now

Location is everything in the real-estate biz, so it's not entirely surprising that a map changed former developer Donald Trump's mind.

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Opinion: Digitization and the 3M Supply Chain

Paul Keel, senior vice president of supply chain management at 3M, explains how 3M is working to improve its supply chain capabilities.

HP to Scale Up Its 3-D Printer Business for Use in Mass Manufacturing

After announcing its first revenue from sales, HP Inc. says it is now focused on scaling up its Multi Jet Fusion 3-D printing business that it believes will rival standard manufacturing technologies, such as injection molding.

Uber Has a Department That Spies on Its Rivals - and It's Not Alone

How far would you go to figure out what the competition is up to?

051217 Uber Hasa Department

With Maiden Jet Flight, China Enters Dogfight With Boeing, Airbus

China's home-grown C919 passenger jet completed its long-delayed maiden flight last week, a major first step for Beijing as it looks to raise its profile in the global aviation market and boost high-tech manufacturing at home.

Campbell Soup Cuts Freight Cost, Emissions With On-Site Bottling Plant

Campbell Soup Co. is cutting freight costs and improving operational efficiencies - as well as significantly decreasing carbon dioxide emissions - by opening an on-site PET bottle-making plant at a Campbell Soup Co. facility in Paris, Texas. The bottle-making company, Amcor Rigid Plastics, previously supplied the Paris site from its plant in Fort Worth.

051117 Campbell Soup Cuts Freight

Europe Leads as Industrial 3-D Printing Takes Shape

For General Electric Co. and its rivals expanding their manufacturing operations using 3-D printing, Europe is emerging as a dominant source of the latest technologies.

After-Sales Service: An Area Where the Customer Is King

Most manufacturers understand that skillful management of service parts operations is critical to reducing costs and optimizing stock levels throughout a supply chain network. But very few are actively leveraging the after-sales side of business as a source of greater profits.

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EDI Helps Pharmaceutical Company With Regulatory Compliance, Order Management

New government regulations of the drug industry drove the need for a more responsive, feature-rich and flexible EDI environment - but that created opportunities for one pharmaceutical company.

051017 Edi Helps Pharmaceutical Co

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