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Payables: The Last Mile in the Healthcare Supply Chain

The majority of healthcare payment processes remain paper-intensive, despite electronic payments being the most efficient and cost-effective B2B payment method.

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Improving Customer Experience: Beyond the Survey Score

Companies need to look beyond numerically scored surveys, in seeking to optimize the customer experience, both now and in the future.

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‘Moneyball for Cattle’ Is Creating an American Steak Renaissance

Today's cattlemen can pick out superior calves better than they ever have, as DNA testing gets cheaper and projections get more accurate.

Source: Bloomberg

FedEx Probe Shows Trade War Chill for Global Companies

From FedEx to Huawei to Nissan, the atmosphere is turning chilly for cross-border companies and executives.

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World’s Largest Chocolate Maker Eyes U.S. Supply Deals

The world’s largest bulk-chocolate maker is eyeing supply deals in the U.S. as the market consolidates and consumer tastes change.

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A Huawei Supplier Explains How It Plans to Survive Trump's Ban

CEO Shoichi Tosaka has built a company that he thinks will be able to avoid getting caught in the U.S.-China crossfire.

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Ford’s Way to Finish Driverless Deliveries: Package-Carrying Robots

Ford is working on a way to resolve what self-driving researchers refer to as “the last 50-foot problem.”

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How HERE Helped One Manufacturer Identify Supply Chain Cost Savings

Challenge: Global automakers have highly optimized supply chains, yet a lack of end-to-end visibility limits their ability to make further gains. For one carmaker, this made it difficult to provide accurate ETAs. In turn, this led to significant buffering and higher opportunity costs.

Boeing CEO Plots Gradual Comeback for Grounded 737 Max Jets

Boeing Co. has begun mapping out the steps to ease its 737 Max back into commercial service once regulators lift a global grounding for the company’s best-selling jetliner.

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U.S. Risks ‘Devastating’ Blow From China’s Rare Earths Monopoly

Beijing’s threat to use its dominance of rare earths in the trade war risks serious disruption to U.S. industry, by starving manufacturers of components commonplace in everything from cars to dishwashers and military equipment.

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Amazon Is Poised to Unleash a Long-Feared Purge of Small Suppliers

In the next few months, bulk orders will dry up for thousands of mostly smaller suppliers, according to people familiar with the plan.

Source: Bloomberg

Driverless Delivery Vans Are Here as Production Begins in China

Forget drones. The future of deliveries may be robo-vans.

Source: Bloomberg

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Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

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