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Walgreens Slashes Supply-Chain Energy Costs
A conversation with Nick Finia, senior manager of energy management and infrastructure capital investment at The Walgreen Company.
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How Retailers Can Ensure Their Supply Chains Deliver on Consumers' Expectations
Retailers and their suppliers are under more pressure than ever before to deliver more goods to more destinations faster. To stay competitive, "retailers need to know where things are at all times so they can redirect shipments, rebalance inventories and respond to new demands on the fly," says Rich Becks, general manager, Industry Value Chains, E2open, which delivers cloud-based supply chain collaboration solutions.
There Are Roadblocks to Connecting Automotive, High-Tech Consumer Electronics Industries
It's the Daytona 500 of vehicle manufacturing: the race to bring connected cars, light trucks and SUVs to market. Unprecedented safety, driver assistance and infotainment features promise to revolutionize the driving experience. Still, few industry executives are confident that their current connected vehicle initiatives are on the right track.
U.S. Imports Return to Normal Levels Following Ratification of Labor Contract
Import cargo volume at the nation's major retail container ports has returned to normal levels following ratification of a new West Coast labor agreement, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.
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Linking Sourcing and Product Design to the Global Supply Chain
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Partnership Aims to Streamline Designs for 3D Printing of Parts
PTC and Stratasys Ltd. are working to deliver a seamless experience between PTC Creo design software and Stratasys 3D Printing Solutions. The joint vision is to make additive manufacturing more accessible to designers and manufacturers and to allow them to fully realize the advantages of the technology. These advantages include geometric freedom and part functionality, economic low volume and on-demand manufacturing, the production of customized products, and more.
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Flying Animals Around World Can Be Lucrative Airfreight Business
A group of very important guests were transported on flight QR 8197 from Amsterdam-Schiphol to Las Vegas via Qatar Airways this past April. A 777-200 freighter was reserved for just 40 well-pampered passengers from 17 different countries, who flew "first class," so to speak, on the 11-hour, 20-minute flight. The combined net worth of these clients was about $160m. As rich as they were, they did little more on the flight than eat and sleep, with an inflight dining menu of 120 pre-packed haynets, water, oat bran for mash, mixed feed, apples and carrots.
Subaru Is Incredibly Successful. Would Expansion Change That?
Since 2011, Subaru's global sales have surged 45 percent to 913,100 vehicles, a pace bested only by a few burgeoning Chinese brands and Fiat Chrysler, which has been intent on making Jeep a popular choice in Europe and Asia. In the U.S., Tesla is the only car company that has increased sales as quickly in that period. And Subaru has done all this while cranking out the best profit margin in the industry.
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Hydraulic Fracturing Causes Another Split Between Conservative and Liberal State
Fracking is creating a new dividing line between the nation's red and blue states.
Internet of Things Gives Companies Opportunities in Customer Service Management
New market opportunities are available to companies in almost every industry from the data that IoT delivers. These new opportunities could be as simple as getting information from sensors about what is happening on the manufacturing plant floor causing automatic manufacturing updates, potential adjustment to customer order delivery dates or even a maintenance work request to handle a detected equipment malfunction. All of these opportunities cause changes to be made to the supply chain.
Reshoring: Reality or Hype?
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AstraZeneca Embraces Supply-Chain Analytics
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