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In a Time of complexity, Go for Simplicity: Three Steps That Lead to the Supply Chain of the Future

As an industry, global consumer products companies have historically underinvested in plants and manufacturing capabilities. In fact, a significant number of organizations may still be running their operations on equipment and processes that were last updated in the prior millennium. Under these circumstances, throughput can rarely keep pace with current needs. At the same time, many of these same companies have made one or more large acquisitions that slow the supply chain down even more: duplication and redundancy at the plant level; disparate operating and ERP systems that cloud visibility; and manual processes that consumed valuable resources.

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Carrier Transicold Develops New Container-Atmosphere Technology

Carrier Transicold has developed a new container atmosphere-control system, dubbed XtendFRESH.

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Elemica Launches Delivery Schedule App for Big Manufacturers

Elemica has introduced Elemica Delivery Schedule, an application for helping large industrial manufacturers to cope with multiple demand signals across global organizations.

Study Details CIO 'Evolving' from Improver to Transformer

The demand for speed, re-invention, agility and innovation in business so dramatically increased over the last five years that it has required that CIOs move beyond business improvement to business transformation, according to a survey by Epicor software in conjunction with the UK's The Manufacturer magazine.

SaaS-based Commercial Fleet Telematics Units to See Highly Robust Growth Through 2018, Report Finds

ABI Research forecasts that the total number of software-as-a-service or SaaS-based subscriber units will increase from 1.06 million at the end of 2012 to 16.8 million on a global basis by the end of 2018.

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Six Ways to Ensure a Company Has 'True Supply Chain Execution Convergence'

For logistics-driven companies, advances in mobile computing and communications in the last decade now are leading us toward what Gartner has called true supply chain execution convergence. The potential gains - lower costs, increased efficiency, less waste, reduced environmental impact, higher customer satisfaction and overall improved profitability - are simply too big to ignore. However, corporate executives and planners should proceed carefully in positioning their companies to get the highest return on their investment in converging supply chain execution technologies.

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Apriso Releases Software App for Paperless Manufacturing

Apriso, a vendor of global manufacturing software, has made available Apriso for Paperless Manufacturing.

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Basware Teams with MasterCard on Global B2B Payment App

Basware has joined with MasterCard to develop an electronic-payment application which speeds up payment to suppliers upon invoice approval, while extending payment terms for buyers.

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Product Lifecycles Create 'Gap' in Electronics Supply Chain Filled by Unauthorized Components

Widely divergent lifecycles for electronics products are creating increasing demand for obsolete and end-of-life components, which sometimes end up being sourced from the gray market. Let's look in detail why that is happening and how product lifecycles are creating a gap in the electronic components supply chain that is in danger of being filled by counterfeit components.

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Supply Chain Disruption Risk: Concern Should Lead to Action

Many large, global organizations are concerned about the risk of serious physical disruption of their supply chains due to high-impact natural disasters, extreme weather or political turmoil. Over the past two years supplier risk has been receiving more attention from organizations as natural disasters, and their effects on global supply chains, have had wide media exposure.

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Accellos, SPS Commerce Offer Supply-Chain App for Microsoft Dynamics GP

Accellos Inc. has joined with SPS Commerce, Inc. to offer an integrated supply-chain management application for the Microsoft Dynamics GP market.

If You Improved Your Processes, Why Are You Making the Same Mistakes Again?

Have you ever wondered why it is so easy for improved processes to go back to how they were performing before improvement? Why it always seems that, even if everybody follows the new instructions, the process still produces defects? Why it's so hard to maintain the benefits in the process after the projects are done?

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