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Sometimes Big Data Analytics Can Be a Big Hindrance

Number crunching can be valuable for firms exploiting their existing resources, but can backfire for companies seeking to branch out with new products or services.

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Ikea to Recall Furniture in China, But Not in Europe

Bowing to two weeks of rising public pressure in China, the Swedish furniture maker Ikea on Tuesday said it would extend its recent recall to a country where so far it has enjoyed strong sales.

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GS1 US Issues Product Images Guideline for Retail Grocery; Integrates Tools for Data Hub

GS1 US has released a new guideline to provide retail grocery trading partners with a resource for standardizing image capture, naming and sharing.

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B2B Commerce Become Buying Method of Choice in Electrical Industry

The numbers are in and all signs point to a future saturated with business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce sales. Following in the footsteps of its business-to-consumer (B2C) cousin, B2B e-commerce is quickly becoming the shopping and purchasing method of choice for a wide range of buyers - including customers in the electrical industry.

Chipotle's Experience Shows Difficulty of Bouncing Back from Business Disruption

Following a food safety scare last year in which hundreds of people fell ill after eating Chipotle products contaminated with E. coli bacteria or noroviruses, the company - which has long advertised its fresh, high-quality ingredients - has seen its stock price fall by double digits.

Inventories Shrink in Latest Logistics Report: Is That Good or Bad?

The annual State of Logistics Report has a new author this year - and with it, a marked shift in some key trends.

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RFID Solution Tested to Provide Temperature, Location of Foods, Pharmaceuticals

A European McDonald's restaurant operator is one of several companies piloting an RFID-based solution designed to provide real-time temperature and location data regarding such items as fresh food, pharmaceuticals and other temperature-sensitive products, from the point of harvesting or manufacture to the consumer.

States Ramp Up Efforts to Tax Online Sales

The explosive growth of online retailing over the last 20 years has increased the pressure on states to seek to enforce sales and use taxes on online purchases.

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C-TPAT Program Said to Be in Dire Need of Updating

The Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program was created in the wake of the 9/11 attacks to build cooperative relationships that strengthen international supply chains and U.S. border security.

Market for Point-of-Sale Terminals to Reach $8Bn by 2020, Research Suggests

The global point-of-sale terminals market is expected to reach close to $8bn in revenue by 2020, according to Technavio's Global POS Terminals Market report.

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Asia Retail Sales projected to amount to over US$10 trillion by 2018 – 2nd RetailEX ASEAN 2016 / POS & ID Expo 2016 aims to pave the way

Don't Outsource Blind - Unify Your Data

One of the long touted benefits of outsourcing was relief from the minutia involved in manufacturing, billing, service and more. As outsourcing took off, few worried about the loss of visibility into those functions because they weren't considered core competencies anyway. The prevailing logic was companies should focus on processes that made them unique and everything else should be off loaded to companies that excelled in each domain. In the supply chain, that meant long chains of components from various companies feeding into more complex components that were shipped to the top of the chain and assembled into the finished product.

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