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SMBs Generally Positive About Economy, Survey Finds

Sage North America say the results of a snapshot survey of small to medium-sized business manufacturers indicate the general health of their businesses is pretty good, and use of their enterprise resource planning systems has benefited them.

RFID Helps Track Baskets of Small But Extremely Costly Parts

For businesses that manufacture aerospace, pharmaceutical or other high-value items, even a single component built into a product can be worth tens of thousands of dollars. Losing track of a basket filled with parts can thus be extremely costly, due not only to each component's cost but the potential loss of production time if assembly is delayed. The solution may be RFID technology, according to Marlin Steel Wire Products, a producer of custom wire baskets and other metal products.

European Emissions Law Flies Into Heavy Flak from U.S. Senate

Just before its break, the U.S. Senate quickly and quietly passed the "European Union Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition Act of 2011," the latest attempt to exempt American airlines from paying fees imposed by the European Union to cover the greenhouse gases their planes emit while flying to and from European airports.

'Big Data' Can Help Minimize Customer Churn

Your customer service representative answers a call from an irate customer. "This darn thing I bought just doesn't work!" he exclaims. "I've tried and tried to get help from your service folks, but they're always late and they can't fix it either. I've had it with you guys. I want my money back!" Big Data can help you retain that customer.

The Healthy Supply Chain Transformation at Boston Scientific

The business of helping people live longer, healthier lives is not taken lightly in any regard. Suppliers to Boston Scientific must guarantee extremely high quality and delivery, because the smallest imperfection or delay could be life-threatening. For this reason, the entire supply chain depends on efficiency and quality. The global indirect sourcing and procurement (GISP) organization at Boston Scientific is responsible for all strategic and tactical procurement of indirect materials and services, using a center-led operating model to organize sourcing around the world.

Companies Want Innovation When Outsourcing Distribution Operations, Study Finds

More than 40 percent of companies that outsource intend to conduct a bid or rebid for part of their network to a logistics service provider within the next 12 months, according to the Outsourced Distribution Report by Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium.

Could Rising U.S. Exports and Reshoring Help Create Up to 5 Million Jobs by 2020?

Manufactured exports - a bright spot of the U.S. economy in recent years - are set to surge. Combined with jobs created as a result of reshoring, higher U.S. exports could add 2.5 million to 5 million jobs by the end of the decade, as manufacturers shift production from leading European countries and Japan to take advantage of substantially lower costs in the U.S., according to new research by The Boston Consulting Group.

Manufacturers, Petroleum Interests Spar with California Board Over Greenhouse Gas Credits Auction

Corporate executives and workers from dozens of refineries, glass-makers and other business groups bombarded members of the California Air Resources Board with complaints about an upcoming auction of credits allowing them to release greenhouse gases.

Manufacturing Doesn't Have to Go Looking for Data. It's Already Swimming in It.

Manufacturing is one industry that is wasting data for lack of the means to quickly and effectively analyze it.

China's 'Second Mice' Enter the Capitalist Maze

So we have a handful of Chinese companies that haven't grown up by the traditional method of attaching an umbilical cord to the government and receiving endless amounts of financial support and monopoly status in return. These "Second Mouse" ventures are going head to head, both in China and around the world, with entrenched, Western-style multinationals. The question is: can they really compete?

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Report Raps Under-Investing in U.S. Airport, Marine Port and Inland Waterway Infrastructure

Aging infrastructure for marine ports, inland waterways and airports threatens more than a million U.S. jobs according to a new Failure to Act report from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

China's 'Second Mice' Enter the Capitalist Maze

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