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PepsiCo Achieves 'Near-Net-Zero' Environmental Impact at Arizona Plant

The company turns a Frito-Lay plant into a multi-project "learning lab," as it seeks to offset environmental impacts related to water, energy and waste generation.

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Fresh and Fast: Meeting the Challenges of the Produce Supply Chain

A conversation with Richard Sawyer, vice president of supply chain with Dole Fresh Vegetables.

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Helping Defense Agency Manage Infrequent, Highly Variable Demand

The Defense Logistics Agency tasked partner LMI with helping to develop a more efficient system for managing items with infrequent demands through an innovative system that accounts for need and risk, without sacrificing mission-readiness.

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Shoe Retailer Says It Can Fulfill Online Orders From Its Brick-and-Mortar Stores

The customer expects shoe retailer DSW to be able to gather the shoes she wants, regardless of how she's shopping and regardless of where the shoe is located in the retailer's system. So it's good news that DSW reports it has made significant progress on its omnichannel initiative.

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Success in Emerging Markets Takes Tactical and Strategic Approach

Over the last few years, the conventional wisdom has coalesced around a view that success in emerging markets is primarily a function of outstanding execution - speed, opportunism, tenacity, and guile - instead of a well-thought-out strategy supported by a set of winning and difficult-to-replicate organizational capabilities. In other words, street smarts are supposed to beat MBA smarts every time.

(Future) Nights of the S.F. Roundtable, Part Two

More predictions for the future of supply-chain management, courtesy of a panel of industry insiders at the fifth annual seer-fest sponsored by the San Francisco Roundtable of the Council of Supply-Chain Management Professionals:

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UK Online Sales Slow Down For Christmas While Eurozone Sees Significant Expansion

Findings of a recent survey show a healthy growth in online holiday shopping in the main Eurozone markets, but a slowdown in overall UK online sales in the run-up to Christmas 2013.

Gridlock! Can Urban Logistics Escape It?

All hail the omni-channel. But how can logistics providers possibly keep pace with an explosion in the number of delivery points within a city that must be served?

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Stop Getting By and Start Getting Smart

Since computers and data automation first entered the workplace, integrating systems and information has been a constant challenge - and often a costly one.

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Carrier Transicold Meets New CARB Emission Rules, Debuts Hybrid Trailer Reefer Unit

Carrier Transicold has developed a new truck engine emissions system (EES) that has received conditional verification from the California Air Resources Board (CARB).

Could It Be That Free Trade Is Coming to an End?

Since the end of World War II and the birth of the modern global economy, business leaders have come to accept an iron law: International trade always expands faster than economic growth. Between the late 1940s and 2013, that assumption held true. Trade grew roughly twice as fast as the world economy annually, as fresh markets opened up, governments signed free-trade pacts, new industries and consumers emerged, and technological advances made international trade cheaper and faster. Now this iron law may be crumbling.

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Retailers Can Celebrate What Pinterest Is Doing to Improve Their Sales

A new study of Pinterest users by market research firm Lab42 finds that 54 percent spend more time on the site during the holidays and 94 percent say it has changed the way they make their holiday preparations. And people are turning to Pinterest to share ideas"”42 percent have a holiday-themed board.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

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

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