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Seagate Strives to Slash Inventory

Seagate Technology has launched a program to eliminate costly and wasteful inventory from its supply chain. Scott Robbleloth, director of supply chain, explains how the company did it.

Pole Star Unveils Cloud-Based Indoor Positioning Platform

Pole Star, a provider of indoor location technology, has released NAO Cloud.

After 44 Years, Wal-Mart Stores Joins National Retail Federation

Walmart has now officially joined the National Retail Federation (NRF) as a member. For those new to retail, this may seem to be no big deal, but the background is that Walmart and the NRF have been in what amounts to a blood feud for decades.

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Audit of Electrical Wholesaler Websites Says E-Commerce Is Untapped Opportunity

Despite the high expectations of wholesale buyers, nearly 40 percent of the top wholesale companies have extremely basic or nonexistent websites, missing an opportunity to enhance the buyer experience through e-commerce, according to a report from hybris, a commerce platform.

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Solving Replenishment Challenges Within 1.25 Million Square Feet

Challenge: Imagine a warehouse operation that handles more than 50,000 SKUs housed under 1.25 million square feet of space. Most of those SKUs can be ordered and picked as eaches and needed to be stored on forward picklines. The challenges faced when managing how those pick locations are replenished is enormous.

How Much Inventory Do You Really Need?

Inventory is evil. Inventory is essential. The two statements aren't necessarily contradictory. Not if companies can figure out a way to determine the absolute minimum amount of stock needed to keep customers happy, while maintaining a tight lid on costs.

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Collaboration Is the Trend In Managing Today's Sustainable Supply Chains

There is only so much that a single organization is going to be able to achieve to improve the impact it has on the environment or society, without collaborating with the wider aspects of its supply chain.

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Fresh & Easy Grocery Chain Goes Stale; Parent Tesco to Pull Out of U.S. Market

Tesco PLC's ambitious U.S. experiment - 5-year-old grocery chain Fresh & Easy - has failed after costing its British parent billions of dollars, the company said.

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Most Enterprise Asset Management Software Users Report Little to No Mobile Access

Users of enterprise asset management (EAM) and computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) software report low levels of access to these systems through handheld mobile devices, according to a new IFS-sponsored survey of executives from industrial companies with $50 million or more in revenue.

Challenges and Solutions of Retail Warehousing and Distribution

The success of online retailers has been linked to the demise of many high street shops in the UK, most recently HMV and Jessops. The remaining retailers have clear strategies which incorporate on-line shopping with home delivery and are often further supported by other initiatives, such as click and collect, where goods are ordered online but delivered to a third-party address, such as a local garage or convenience store, to avoid the disappointment of missed home deliveries.

Retailers Push Demand for More European Warehouse Space

Retailers will drive demand for up to 270 million square feet of warehouse space in Europe, including 33 million square feet for e-commerce, according to a report by Jones Lang LaSalle.

Wal-Mart Says It Will Promote Safety Training in Global Supply Chain

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, says that after a fire at a Bangladesh factory last year killed 112 people it is making its biggest push yet to try to improve conditions at factories that produce its clothing.

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