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Implications of Omnichannel to the CPG Supply Chain
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Justifying the Expense of Faster Fulfillment
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Anaren Launches Remote Temperature-Monitoring Kit for Cellular Networks
The Wireless Group of Anaren Inc. has launched a Cellular Machines product line.
Crowley Adds Flat-Deck Barge to Puerto Rico Service
Crowley Liner Services has added a flat-deck barge to its Puerto Rico service.
Enterprise Social Collaboration Fuels Innovative S&OP
As the sales and operations planning (S&OP) leader, there are a few principal responsibilities: setting priorities, planning and executing your supply chain strategies, driving incremental improvements while quickly adapting to changing market and customer requirements, and linking changes in demand to changes in supply while keeping in mind the financial results. But that's just within the average day-to-day activity – it is also expected that advance changes in thinking and execution will be developed to help solve S&OP limitations.
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E-commerce, Fulfillment Demands Drive Growth in Warehouse Automation, Study Finds
Rapid growth in the worldwide market for warehouse automation and control systems is being driven primarily by the global boom in e-commerce, and its profound effects on fulfillment requirements, according to an ARC Advisory Group market study.
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Industry 4.0: The Future of Productivity, Growth in Manufacturing
Technological advances have driven dramatic increases in industrial productivity since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. The steam engine powered factories in the 19th Century, electrification led to mass production in the early part of the 20th Century, and industry became automated in the 1970s. In the decades that followed, however, industrial technological advancements were only incremental, especially compared with the breakthroughs that transformed IT, mobile communications, and e-commerce.
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Finnish Mine Uses RFID Tech to Track Workers, Trucks, Detonators
For the past five years, the Pyhäsalmi mine in central Finland has been using passive high-frequency RFID tags to record when workers enter or leave a mine shaft. Since that time, says Kimmo Luukkonen, the mine's managing director, the technology has improved management's visibility into who is underground and when, and hence has increased its safety program's efficiency and accuracy. The company plans to expand that RFID solution to monitor who carries explosive detonators into the mine.
How to Build a Comprehensive Supply Chain Risk Management Strategy
Supply chain risk management is a major concern for many companies today. According to a Gartner IT Risk Management Survey, 70 percent of those canvassed said that risk management data would influence board-level decisions – up from just 46 percent a year earlier.
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U.S. Re-takes Lead Over China as Online Sales Grow Worldwide
Global online sales increased 20 percent last year, and the United States took the international lead over China.
As E-commerce Sales Boom, Companies Need to Have Digital Strategies
In a report projecting $780bn in United States B2B e-commerce sales this year and $1.132tr by 2020, Forrester Research encourages companies to get to work now on a digital strategy for dealing with customers.
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FedEx, TNT Hope Their Merger Plan Won't See Return of Antitrust Problems That Sank UPS Deal
As FedEx and TNT Express work out the details of their planned €4.4 billion merger, echoes of a similar deal between UPS and TNT that was doomed in 2013 were instantly brought to mind. But this time around, both FedEx and TNT believe the antitrust concerns of two years ago will not play a major role in the European Union's judgment of the acquisition.
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