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Price Optimization Software Helps Bolster Gross Margins

Relying in part on point-of-sale data, this software improves merchandise assortment, boosts total sales and helps increase average selling prices.

POS Data Is Used To Quickly Recalibrate Store Replenishments

Point of sale is "where the facts are" that help retailers readjust orders to accommodate sales peaks and valleys that may be predictable but aren't always intuitive.

ImagePoint Scores Savings With Strategic Sourcing

A conversation with Steve Hammond, chief information officer at ImagePoint Inc., the nation's largest sign company.

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U.S. Distributor Puts Plan for Major Sales Growth on the Boil

Macna, the American seller of high-end industrial boilers from France, eyes the lucrative residential market - with the help of a logistics and warehousing partner.

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Time Warner Books Creates a Showpiece for Distribution

Improvements in warehousing and transportation have created a profit center at the publisher's centralized distribution facility.

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Special Issue: Collaborative Commerce - Steel Industry Provides Fertile Ground for Virtual Distribution

Straightline Source is defying the e-business odds and growing legs as a virtual distributor of carbon and flat-rolled steel. Technology enabling order efficiency and waste reduction is part of the reason.

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SPECIAL ISSUE: GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN PARTNERSHIPS - CNH Global: Schneider Wins Logistics Contract In U.S., Now Looks to Europe

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Levi Strauss Revamps Value-Channel Supply Chain to Keep Pace With Outlet Shoppers

As off-price stores moved upscale in recent years with the creation of attractive, shopper-friendly outlet malls, the demands of consumers and value retailers changed. Low prices were still expected, but shoppers also wanted a better selection of style and colors. To meet this need, Levi Strauss revamped its value-channel logistics.

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Clarity Brought to Window Maker's Supply Chain

Unreliable advance planning in the building trades, multiple manufacturing sites and the fragile nature of its products were just some of the logistics challenges faced by Pella Corp. It needed a total set of logistics solutions throughout its widespread enterprise.

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Amazon.com Sees Supply-chain As Crucial To Its Future

Key Amazon.com executives in Seattle and Europe - including founder Jeff Bezos - talk about how the company's supply-chain strategies and fledgling European operations are shaping its prospects.

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SPECIAL ISSUE: GLOBAL SUPPLY-CHAIN PARTNERSHIPS - Whirlpool: Connecting Pieces of a Big Puzzle

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GTE, 3M Reap Multiple Benefits From Asset-Recovery Operations

GTE's in-house recovery operation is so successful that it now handles reverse logistics services for other companies. Likewise, 3M turned to its own logistics and manufacturing groups to recover useable by-products - and lots of money.

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