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SCI Logistics Opens 'White-Glove' Transport Center in Calgary
SCI Logistics, a Canadian logistics services provider, has opened a new "white-glove" transportation center in Calgary, Alberta.
VW's Uruguayan Importer Uses RFID to Track Maintenance Tools
For the past four years, Julio Cesar Lestido S.A., the official Uruguayan importer of cars and trucks manufactured by the Volkswagen Group, has been employing passive ultrahigh-frequency RFID tags to track the metal tools it uses to maintain vehicles. The company says that it is now developing a plan to utilize the technology to record each vehicle's life history, including its date of import and sales information, as well as all maintenance provided.
Supply Chains Are Only as Sustainable as Their Worst Supplier Participants
The road to creating user-friendly, science-backed, technology-enabled supply chains is paved with good sustainability intentions that get foiled by today's dynamic, global complexities. Achieving sustainability of scale requires involvement of the entire supply chain. To meet the needs of customers and markets, manufacturers need up-to-date and accurate information about their suppliers' materials and components.
With Ability to Use Metals, 3D Printing Will Be 'Game Changer' in Industrial Machinery Production
Industrial machinery production - which represents $1.6tr of the $3.8tr global industrial capital expenditure spending in 2013 - is the area to be most dramatically affected by advancing 3D printing technology, says Alex Chausovksy, senior principal analyst, industrial automation, at IHS.
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Number of Businesses Reporting Million-dollar Supply Chain Disruptions Rises
Nearly a quarter of respondents to a survey claimed their organisation had suffered losses of at least €1m ($1.25m) during the previous 12 months (up from 15 percent last year) as a result of supply chain disruptions, according to a report from the Business Continuity Institute. Slightly more than 13 percent suffered a one-time disruption that cost in excess of €1m (up from 9 percent last year). The study also showed that 40 percent of respondents claimed their organisation was not insured against any of these losses while 20 percent were only insured against half of these losses.
Overall Global Retailing Sales Predicted to Reach $19.6Tr by 2019
By 2019, retail sales from all channels are expected to hit $19.6tr, according to market research company Euromonitor International, and beginning five years from now as much as a third of new retail sales will come from China.
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AA Cargo, US Airways Combine Under Single Air Waybill
The cargo divisions of American Airlines and US Airways, which merged late last year, have combined under a single air waybill.
Yusen Logistics Expands Short-Haul Intermodal in Eastern U.S.
Yusen Logistics (Americas) Inc., a third-party logistics provider, is expanding its short-haul intermodal service, which is now available for moving commodities within the eastern U.S.
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Suddath Global Logistics Expands in L.A., Dallas-Fort Worth
Suddath Global Logistics has added warehouse capacity in the Los Angeles and Dallas-Forth Worth markets.
The Cloud Really Helps Get All Trading Partners' Systems Aligned. Right?
In the world of supply chains, signing on a new partner or trading partner has typically marked the beginning of a marathon. Whether by electronic data interchange, EDIFACT, cXML, ebXML, value added networks, portals or the rest of the alphabet soup of connectivity approaches, a great deal of time and effort is required to get trading partners’ systems aligned - even if trading hubs are involved. Every company has a different system, and different processes for getting things done. For a company with thousands of trading partners, imagine how much in resources it gobbles up just to manage and keep every partnership aligned. Of course, cloud changes all that right?
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Can Square - the Mobile Credit Card Reader System - Fend Off Its Many, Many Competitors?
Four years ago, when its little card reader attachments for phones and tablets began to show up in cabs and at farmers' markets, Square was one of the coolest, most innovative companies in Silicon Valley. That's over.
Kewill Expands Software Platform for Multimodal Transportation
Kewill, a vendor of supply-chain execution software, has added features to its transportation-management platform, dubbed Kewill MOVE on the Cloud.
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