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IT Increasingly Part of the Recipe for Successful Manufacturing

As an industry, manufacturing is "hot." Regions are creating manufacturing initiatives, countries are creating policies to lure manufacturing back and prepare the next generation of talent, maker fairs show entrepreneurs and small-scale artisans how they too can design and manufacture their own products, what manufacturers sell goes well beyond the 100-year-old recipe and the mechanical drawings, and new technologies are changing the economies of scale so that large- and small-scale value chains can be successful.

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RFID Helps Belgian Retailer Track Garments Throughout Its Supply Chain

Belgian clothing retailer JBC has taken a large-scale radio frequency identification system live across all 144 of its stores throughout Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany.

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Many Retailers Don't Perceive Customer Expectations, Lack Technology to Assess Consumer Data

Customer and retailer perceptions and expectations are not aligned, and many retail stores lack the essential technology to measure and apply shopper data across all channels, says a study released by RetailNext, a provider of retail industry analytics technology.

Government Urged to Do More to Protect Consumers' Privacy

Federal regulators served notice last week: They're watching how businesses use - and possibly abuse - consumers' personal information. And that's great. It's about time more official attention was paid to ways that companies invade our privacy. But federal authorities can do more, much more, to level the playing field.

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NLPA Releases Online Course for Procurement Talent Management

The Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA) has released a new online express course to aid procurement professionals in recruitment and talent management.

Coatings Leader Achieves End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility with OMP Plus

Challenge: A global leader in specialty coatings was going through a multi-system migration and decided to select a state-of-the-art global end-to-end planning and scheduling platform including truck load building. This platform needed to cover 17 production sites, over 200 warehouses, fully integrate with their SAP landscape and support daily use by over 200 global users.

Collaboration Between Procurement, Logistics Not Practiced at Many Companies, Study Shows

While there has been much talk over the past 10 years or so about "collaboration," much of it has been focused on external supply chain collaboration. It seems that many companies neglected to get their own houses in order before looking outside their own supply chains, according to a University of Tennessee report entitled Bending the Chain: The Surprising Challenge of Integrating Purchasing and Logistics.

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Ocean Cargo Rates to Continue to Drop, Industry Losses to Mount in 2016, Report Says

Further widening of the supply-demand imbalance at the trade route level and insufficient measures to reduce ship capacity will lead to an acceleration of freight rate reductions and industry-wide losses in 2016, according to the latest Container Forecaster report published by global shipping consultancy Drewry.

CaroTrans Launches New Service Between Miami, Manaus

CaroTrans, a non-vessel operating common carrier and ocean freight consolidator, has launched a direct, biweekly service between Miami, Fla. and Manaus, Brazil, for less-than-containerload exports.

Domtar's Paper Trail Now Available in French

Domtar Corp. has issued the latest update of The Paper Trail, its interactive site designed to help customers trace the environmental impacts of their paper purchases.

AspenTech Issues New Update of Engineering Software

Aspen Technology Inc. has released enhancements to version 8.8 of its aspenONE Engineering software.

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AAL Enters Space-Sharing Pact in Asia-East Coast Australia Trade

The breakbulk, project and heavy-lift carrier AAL has entered into a space-sharing agreement with Swire Shipping in the Asia-to-East Australia liner service.

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