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Seko Logistics Adds E-Commerce Warehousing Capacity in Hong Kong
Seko Logistics has added 100,000 square feet of warehousing and fulfillment capacity in Hong Kong.
Are You a Service Parts Pricing Laggard or Leader?
In business, as in life, you're either improving or declining, growing or shrinking - there is no middle ground. In today's ultracompetitive durable goods industry, you're either evolving your business to compete faster and stronger while delivering a superior customer experience or you're allowing it to stagnate and erode, a formula which is sure to capture the (negative) attention of your customers and shareholders.
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Big Data Has Big Contribution to Make to Food Industry
Advanced analytics opens vast untapped potential for farmers, investors, and emerging economies to reduce the cost of goods sold.
New Tech Promises to Cut Costs, Carbon Emissions in Plastics Manufacturing
A new technology could dramatically reduce the costs and carbon emissions in the manufacturing of the world's plastics supplies, according to researchers from Exxon Mobil and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Harnessing Customer Insights Requires More Than Traditional Market Research
Consumer-facing companies in developed economies have experienced little or no growth since the global recession of 2008 and 2009. As a result, CEOs, business unit leaders, chief marketing officers, and executive teams are looking outward, trying to spur growth by turning to new sources of customer information. These include "implicit" data such as biometrics, "structured" batches of big data such as online behavior, and "unstructured" data such as social media and call center conversations.
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Plex Systems Acquires Supply-Chain Planning Vendor DemandCaster
Plex Systems, a provider of cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for manufacturing, has acquired DemandCaster, a vendor of cloud-based supply-chain planning (SCP) applications.
Plus Location Systems Teams With Auburn University RFID Lab
Plus Location Systems, a provider of real-time location tracking and decision-support systems, is partnering with the Auburn University RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Lab.
EnVista Adds Dashboards to Freight Audit, Payment App
EnVista, a global supply-chain consulting and information technology services firm, has added five dashboards to its freight audit and payment application.
In Wake of Hospira Acquisition, Pfizer Consolidating DCs
Pfizer has decided that it does not need the legacy distribution sites that it got with the $15bn buyout of Hospira last year and so will close four facilities across the U.S., consolidating distribution into two Pfizer logistics centers next year. In the process it will whack 104 jobs.
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Market for Robotics, Other Automation in Manufacturing Sees Record Sales
The North American automation industry has set records to begin 2016, according to the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), the industry's trade group. The advent of more automation in North American manufacturing promises increased efficiencies in production and the ability to compete globally.
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Back-to-School Sales a Bit Tardy This Year
Although back-to-school shopping started earlier this year, families are slowly tackling their supplies lists. According to the National Retail Federation's annual survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics, the average family with children in grades K-12 has completed almost half (48 percent) of their shopping as of early August, slightly down from last year (50 percent).
Fast and Free: Can Smaller Online Retailers Meet Consumers' Delivery Demands?
Amazon.com can meet e-commerce shoppers' demand for both fast and free delivery. But what about its smaller rivals?
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