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Logistics Challenges Never Greater – Tools to Manage Costs Never Better

For many major B2B enterprises, logistics networks have never been more complex. The increasing prevalence of operations that are global - with growing numbers of production sites and clients that could be anywhere on earth - has introduced challenges that didn't exist to the same degree at an earlier time. The good news is that there has also never before been a moment when there were more tools and more opportunities to optimize logistics costs than now.

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Google Patent Envisions Driverless Vehicle Bringing Packages to Your Door

In a patent filed Feb. 9, Google forecasts potential interest in using autonomous, self-driving vehicles to deliver packages, a concept Amazon and Google have both been exploring with the use of drones.

IATA Partners With Harris Corp. on Information-Exchange Tool

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and Harris Corp. have jointly developed a new collaboration tool.

Time for Corporates to Wake Up to Realities of Human Slavery

It is the human rights abuse that everybody likes to maintain is not happening. But within corporate supply chains across the developing world – from the cocoa-growing lands of the Ivory Coast to the seafood sector of Thailand – human trafficking and modern day slavery is still commonplace, with people being made to work and live in appalling conditions with little or no pay.

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Shipping Rates for Chemicals Expected to Face Pressure This Year

On the back of low bunker prices and more newbuildings to be delivered in 2016, chemical shipping freight rates for both contracts of affreightment and spot cargoes will be under pressure throughout 2016, as there are some new operators looking to break into the long-haul trade routes, according to the latest edition of the Chemical Forecaster, published by global shipping consultancy Drewry.

Have Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Really Delivered on Their Promise?

Enterprise resource planning systems, once regarded as a marvel of technology, have turned out to be anything but.

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Effective CRM Requires Changing the Way You Collect, Analyze Data

If the customer is "at the center of everything," so, too, should be a company's system for managing customer relationships. In other words, customer relationship management software needs to be more than just a way to handle queries about products or fielding feedback from clients.

Suppliers Hear News Loud and Clear: Demand for iPhone Dips

Suppliers are feeling the pinch of slackening demand for Apple's iconic iPhone, while the shortfall in sales growth could also affect component prices.

Automatic Tracking of Medications Throughout Supply Chain Is Goal of RFID Technology

RFID technology company eAgile is marketing a solution known as eSeal that aims to enable the automatic tracking of containers of medication from the point of manufacture to the drugstore counter or a patient's hospital bedside.

Should 'Supply Chain' Give Way to 'Supply Web'?

The term "Web 2.0" refers to the current state of online technology as it compares to the early days of the Web, and is characterized by greater user interactivity and collaboration, more pervasive network connectivity and enhanced communication channels.

CBX Software Partners With SGS on Retail Quality and Compliance

CBX Software, a provider of sourcing-management applications to the retail industry, has joined with SGS, the global inspection, testing and verification body, to provide an integrated sourcing, quality, compliance and supply-chain service.

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Principia Launches Analytical Tool for Building Materials Industry

Principia Consulting has launched SupplyBuilder, an online data application for the building materials industry.

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