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36 Percent of E-Commerce Sales Lost Due to Poor Checkout Performance?

Twenty years after the launch of the commercial internet, most merchants still fail to optimize the online checkout experience for the customers who visit their virtual storefronts. The result is that they stand to lose as much as 36 percent of sales due to the frictions that remain from discovery through checkout. Merchants could lose additional sales during payment processing.

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On Your Mark, Get Set, Print Your Plastic Car - Go!

One of the most atypical things seen this year at the Specialty Equipment Market Association show was a prototype of a 3D printed car from the company Local Motors.

Long Shopping Lines? Blame New Technology in Your Credit Cards.

Shopping season means waiting in line. But this year may be even worse. New chip technology in credit cards is making consumers' purchases safer but also appears to be causing longer lines at some retailers.

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Green America Creates Center for Sustainability Solutions

Green America, an organization promoting sustainable economic activities, has created a Center for Sustainability Solutions.

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Amazon, Google Intensely Focused on Robotics, But Their Strategies Differ

With robots like BigDog and the Terminator-like Atlas, Google's robotics efforts have been a smash success - if you measure by YouTube views and buzz. Amazon's work has been more behind scenes (apart from the widely discussed plans for delivery drones). But Amazon's energies in robotics have also had a more immediate payoff than Google's "moonshots." The differing philosophies illustrate how Amazon and Google have taken starkly different paths so far in the race to automate the physical world.

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How to Motivate Your Supplier to Enforce Human Rights

Corporations pay lip service to enforcing human rights and fair working conditions in offshore factories. But the deaths and injuries continue.

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A Different Approach to Fixing Your Long Tail

Long tails can get, well, rather long. Some see this as a mandate to hunt down and kill off the items furthest out on the tail.

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Cargo Vessels Sailing Into Higher Operation Costs

The cost of operating cargo ships is forecast to rise over the next two years after falling in 2015, according to the latest Ship Operating Costs Annual Review and Forecast 2015/16 report published by global shipping consultancy Drewry.

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JDA Teams With Tata in Planning App for Manufacturing

JDA Software Group Inc. has partnered with Tata Consultancy Services to help users upgrade to the latest release of JDA Manufacturing Planning, version 9.0.

MHI Launches Supply Chain Awareness Campaign

"I work in the supply chain" is often followed by "what's that?" or "what do you do?" Or it can bring to mind negative stereotypes of workers spending endless hours in dark, dingy factories.

African Americans Urged to Spend More in Black-owned Businesses

Blacks spend less money in black-owned businesses than other racial and ethnic groups spend in businesses owned by members of their groups, including Hispanics and Asians.

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RFID Enables Manufacturer to Manage Painting Process of Its Products

Rittal, a manufacturer of enclosures for servers and other IT equipment, as well as climate-control and power-distribution systems, is employing radio frequency identification technology to manage the movements of its products through the painting process at its Rittershausen assembly plant.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

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Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

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