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Ordoro, Bigcommerce Partner to Offer Drop-Shipping to eTailers
Ordoro has teamed up with Bigcommerce to provide online retailers with the ability to drop-ship orders to customers. Ordoro is an electronic-commerce application which helps merchants to streamline their back-office operations.
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RFID Technology Enables Bars to keep Better Tabs on Booze
Several Miami-based restaurants and bars are employing a radio frequency identification solution that identifies and weighs liquor bottles, and then transmits that information to a server where it can be linked to point-of-sale (POS) data. In this way, management can know how much of each type of liquor is being poured, how customers are then being charged at the register, and when any discrepancies might occur, such as an over- or under-pour, a missing bottle or unbilled pours.
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Why Haven't Companies Been Quicker to Apply Lean to Services?
Why have companies been so slow to apply lean principles and techniques to service processes such as finance, human resources, accounting, health care, and customer service? One reason is that the waste and inefficiency that can interfere with services are rarely obvious.
TCU Offers Certificate in Supply Chain Management
Texas Christian University (TCU) is offering a Professional Certificate in Supply and Value Chain Management, beginning in January 2013.
Planning for Uncertainty in Supply-Network Design
Supply-network design is a hot topic today. Jake Barr, global director of supply network operations with the Procter & Gamble Company, details the reasons why, and identifies the biggest gaps in network-design efforts today.
Growth in Manufacturing Expected to Contribute More to Rebounding Economy
Manufacturing picked up in December, reflecting growth in orders, employment and exports that indicate the U.S. expansion will be sustained in 2013 following the budget deal.
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Turkish Meat Producer Uses RFID to Keep Tabs on Product, Deter Pilferage
Bereket Döner, one of Turkey's largest producers of frozen and ready-to-serve meat products, is employing radio frequency identification to track its goods as they are loaded onto pallets, weighed and shipped to customers.
Cloud-Based ERP May Never Be Suitable for All Types of Manufacturing
A year-end roundup piece on developments in enterprise software in 2012 finds "clarity" is beginning to come the cloud-based ERP software market.
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B2B Purchasers Want Their Online Experience to Be Like That of B2C Buyers
It's no secret that business-to-business buyers have come to expect the same ease and convenience of online buying they enjoy for personal shopping experiences when it comes to making corporate purchases.
How Did the Bar Code Conquer the World?
In 1948 a supermarket executive came to the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia with a request. He wanted a technology that could encode information about his products. Two graduate students, Bernard Silver and N. Joseph Woodland, took up the challenge. Woodland became obsessed and dropped out of school to concentrate on it.
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Air Cargo Not Keeping Up with Growth in Passenger Traffic
There is a growing mismatch between the performance of the passenger and cargo sides of the airline business, IATA has revealed. A 5.3-percent growth in passenger numbers in 2012, with a 3-percent improvement in yield, contrasts sharply with the 2-percent fall in both freight tonne-kilometers and cargo yield.
'We Want to Be True Supply Chain Enabler,' CN CEO Says
In discussing how the business model at Canadian National Railway has changed over the last 10 years or so, Claude Mongeau, CEO at CN, recognized the importance of the supply chain.
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