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How RFID Can Ensure Product Quality and Reduce Recalls

You can't tackle the problem of product recalls without data.

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Foodservice Company Reduces Freight Spend By 10-15% with Manhattan's TMS

Challenge: Even though growth was on the fast track for one of the largest domestic foodservice providers, they were still hampered by supply chain visibility and accuracy challenges. Without visibility, they had no way of knowing how truckload orders were impacting their entire supply chain, leading to increased costs. The company was also facing substantial increases in commodity prices, fuel and the minimum wage - critical elements in the food and restaurant industries. Complicating those challenges were ongoing limited-time promotions, which require immediate responses to spikes in demand.

Is Your Order Fulfillment Cycle Fast Enough?

A conversation with Andrew J. Breckenridge, executive vice president of Fortna.

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Walgreens Slashes Supply-Chain Energy Costs

A conversation with Nick Finia, senior manager of energy management and infrastructure capital investment at The Walgreen Company.

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How Retailers Can Ensure Their Supply Chains Deliver on Consumers' Expectations

Retailers and their suppliers are under more pressure than ever before to deliver more goods to more destinations faster. To stay competitive, "retailers need to know where things are at all times so they can redirect shipments, rebalance inventories and respond to new demands on the fly," says Rich Becks, general manager, Industry Value Chains, E2open, which delivers cloud-based supply chain collaboration solutions.

There Are Roadblocks to Connecting Automotive, High-Tech Consumer Electronics Industries

It's the Daytona 500 of vehicle manufacturing: the race to bring connected cars, light trucks and SUVs to market. Unprecedented safety, driver assistance and infotainment features promise to revolutionize the driving experience. Still, few industry executives are confident that their current connected vehicle initiatives are on the right track.

U.S. Imports Return to Normal Levels Following Ratification of Labor Contract

Import cargo volume at the nation's major retail container ports has returned to normal levels following ratification of a new West Coast labor agreement, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.

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Launch of SATO Global Solutions Accelerates Auto-ID Industry in North America

North America's expanding automatic identification industry picked up momentum with the grand opening celebration of SATO Global Solutions (SGS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tokyo-based SATO Holdings Corporation.

Omnichannel to Push Annual RFID Revenue to $5.4Bn in 2020, Report Says

A Frost & Sullivan report finds that sales of RFID readers, tags and software to the retail sector will grow from $738m in 2014 to $5.409bn in 2020, reflecting a compound annual growth rate of 38.9 percent.

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Returns: The 'Ticking Time Bomb' of Multichannel Retailing

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Digital Fulfillment: A Path to Inventory Visibility

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Newmine Issues Returns Assessment Program

Newmine, a global consulting firm focusing on the omnichannel retail sector, has developed the Customer Returns Assessment Program (RAP).

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

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