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Global Retailer Maximizes Supply Chain Performance With Improved Collaboration

Challenge: Inconvenienced by manually intensive processes, this global retailer of handbags and accessories recognized the need to transform its internal and external supply chain processes - facilitating the access of information with strategic trading partners, especially raw material suppliers. The company needed to standardize data management processes associated with material management, BOMs, costing collaboration and supplier allocation.

Target Is Buying a Company That Facilitates Quick Local Deliveries

Target Corp. - increasingly aware that shoppers want the things they buy online to arrive right away - is acquiring a San Francisco transportation technology company that facilitates same-day deliveries.

When Growth Mandates Change: Blue Diamond Reevaluates Its Supply Chain

The growers' cooperative, a dominant processor and marketer of almonds and related products, seeks to reconfigure its forward distribution network, to reflect current and future demand from retailers.

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The Future of Retail: 2017 Edition

What will the retail landscape look like in the very near future? And which players will be left standing?

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Why Discount Grocer Aldi Is Getting Into the Delivery Game

One of the hottest discount supermarket chains in the U.S. is partnering with Instacart to offer grocery delivery - a service once reserved primarily for high-end food retailers and high-income customers.

Auto-Parts Suppliers Say They Doubt Tesla's Electric Car Vision

Some of the world's top auto-parts suppliers aren't buying all the enthusiasm about the electric vehicles hyped by Tesla Inc.'s Elon Musk and larger carmakers trying to keep up.

The Best Place for a New Warehouse? An Old Mall

The pressure for speedy online package delivery is prompting companies to look for distribution facilities closer to residential areas or highways.

JD.Com Opens Unmanned Sorting Center to Boost E-Commerce Automation

China's second-largest e-commerce company, JD.com, has taken another step to automate and streamline e-commerce logistics - most recently by opening an unmanned parcel sorting center in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, according to a media report on the company's investor page.

Firms Could Be Fined Millions for Poor Cybersecurity

Organizations in the United Kingdom could be fined up to £17m ($22.06m), or 4 percent of their global turnover, for having poor cybersecurity under proposed new laws.

For Supply Chain Security, Retailer Looks to Freight Payment

Challenge: As with all companies, fraud and information security were top of mind for this major national retailer. To protect its strategic and competitive advantages – and those of its partners – the retailer needed a payment solution that could also safeguard its supply chain.

Opinion: The Danger From Low-Skilled Immigrants Is Not Having Them

Let's just say it plainly: The United States needs more low-skilled immigrants.

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