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IBM is Totally Involved in Risk Analysis, Avoidance (copy 1)

IBM faced greater risk of supply disruption as sourcing activities stretched further and became more complex. No single tool gave the company the comprehensive analysis and protection it wanted, so it developed its own.

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Transport Perform, a Cloud-Based Software, Gets New Version

Midmark Acquires the Essentials for a Mobile Supply Chain

The company's ERP system wasn't able to support a mobile operation that could lead to greater picking accuracy in the warehouse. Here's how it solved the problem, without busting the bank on a full-blown WMS application.

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Direct-to-Store Takes Giant Step, and the Top Prize (copy 1)

For this year's Supply Chain Innovation Award, first place goes to Ahold USA and its partners - ES3 and Del Monte Foods - for a distribution system that streamlines order-to-store deliveries from days to hours.

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Voice Technology Directs Retailer to Order Accuracy

After voice-directed picking replaced its paper-based system, a retailer in western Canada found that it was no longer shorting deliveries to its stores.

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Provider Fashions Portal to Control Polo's Airfreight (copy 1)

Polo Ralph Lauren is good at a lot of things, but it's international airfreight operations were clearly out of style: inefficient and costly. A transportation management solutions provider gave the fashion retailer a complete makeover.

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How to Improve ROI on Product Returns (copy 1)

ADT Security Systems joins with Inmar Reverse Logistics to revamp the company's method for the receipt, management and disposition of returned parts, an opportunity that it had previously overlooked.

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Mega-Cities in Emerging Markets Pose Special Logistics Challenges

A conversation with Edgar Blanco, research and executive director, SCALE Latin America, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics.

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Creative Collaboration in CPG - Even with Competitors

Embedded Analytics in Transportation Management

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Why Logistics Companies Need a CRM Strategy

Logistics Provider Is a Heavyweight in the Eyes of Its Client

Much of the business of Levand Steel & Supply Corp. centers around getting counterweights to the world's largest mining-equipment makers. A recent delivery, by barge, posed some unusual challenges for the 3PL.

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