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IBM's Watson Knows What You're Going to Buy

Winning $1m on Jeopardy! wasn't good enough for IBM's Watson. Now it wants to predict your buying behavior.

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DMLogic Solves Temperature Control Compliancy Issues for Major Pharmaceutical Manufacturers

Challenge: DMLogic was challenged by a major pharmaceutical manufacturer to help streamline their compliance tracking of temperature-specific drug storage and delivery. While shipments were continuously tracked via their WMS, the manufacturer was forced to manually note temperatures throughout transit via spreadsheet. Eventually, the spreadsheets became cumbersome and the manual tracking was slowing down the process.

Spot Rates Fall as Price of Diesel Dips Below $2

With the national average diesel price falling below $2 per gallon, truckload rates on the spot market continued on a downward trend. Freight brokers usually quote a one-time price that includes both a line-haul portion and the fuel surcharge; declining fuel prices influence spot market rates significantly.

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Corning Awards Life Sciences Business to Kuehne & Nagel

Corning Incorporated has appointed Kuehne & Nagel to manage the distribution requirements for its Corning Life Sciences business in the Asia-Pacific market.

Database Created on Toxicity of 10,000 Chemicals Used in Europe

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have created a safety database on 10,000 chemicals registered in Europe for predicting the toxicity of many of the 90,000 or more other substances in consumer products.

Hapag-Lloyd Adds 3,000 Reefer Containers to Fleet

Hapag-Lloyd AG has added 3,000 refrigerated containers to its fleet.

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Air France KLM Martinair Cargo Receives Pharmaceutical Logistics Excellence Certificate

The International Air Transport Association has awarded its Center of Excellence for Independent Validators certificate for pharmaceutical operations in Paris and Amsterdam to Air France KLM Martinair Cargo.

Ford Drives Closer to Landfill-Free Status

Ford Motor Company North American World Headquarters facilities now send no waste to landfill – another major step in the automaker's quest to reduce its environmental impact globally. Sites in Dearborn, Michigan, Oakville, Ontario, and Santa Fe, Mexico, are diverting more than 240,000 pounds of waste from landfills annually.

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Time for Corporates to Wake Up to Realities of Human Slavery

It is the human rights abuse that everybody likes to maintain is not happening. But within corporate supply chains across the developing world – from the cocoa-growing lands of the Ivory Coast to the seafood sector of Thailand – human trafficking and modern day slavery is still commonplace, with people being made to work and live in appalling conditions with little or no pay.

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Automatic Tracking of Medications Throughout Supply Chain Is Goal of RFID Technology

RFID technology company eAgile is marketing a solution known as eSeal that aims to enable the automatic tracking of containers of medication from the point of manufacture to the drugstore counter or a patient's hospital bedside.

Growth in Emerging Markets Not Automatic Anymore - Competitiveness Required

Emerging markets have driven growth for many multinational corporations (MNCs) for years, and they will continue to do so. But these are turbulent times as commodity prices plunge, currencies are devalued, and equity markets gyrate. The profitability of many MNCs' operations is already under attack, and future performance will be challenged by slower macroeconomic growth, increasing costs, and heightened competition from local companies, which are rapidly gaining scale, experience, and capability. To reduce these pressures, companies will have to focus much more on improving their competitiveness through constant productivity gains.

GS1 US Expands Advisory Services for Standards Implementation

GS1 US, an information-standards body, has expanded its Advisory Services offering.

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

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