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Little Being Done to Focus on Underlying Costs of Healthcare Supply Chains

In spite of several laws passed in the last decade, we have not begun to scratch the surface of addressing the cost of healthcare.

Wal-Mart to Test System Allowing Customers to Scan Products Before Purchase

Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is testing out a new checkout system that enables shoppers to avoid long lines and scan items in store aisles using their smartphones.

Acumatica Teams Up With Accellos to Integrate ERP and WMS in the Cloud

Acumatica, a provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software in the cloud, has integrated its product with the AccellosOne Cloud WMS (warehouse management system).

Thrive Technologies Debuts Demand-Forecasting Tool

Thrive Technologies Inc. has released Firstcast, a demand-forecasting service.

WMS Helps Client Achieve 20% Labor Reduction And Increased Efficiency

Challenge: A client was facing increasing labor costs, inventory inaccuracies, shipping errors and increased leads times. The client turned to Systems Logic to implement our warehouse management software to enhance and improve their existing business processes and assist them in meeting their challenging company goals.

Global manufacturer tastes sweet success with cloud supply chain platform

Challenge: A global manufacturer of 49% food and 51% pet products manages over 3,500 inputs from growers, with 17 U.S. production facilities, 24 devoted to co-packing, 11 distribution centers and more than 550 ship-to locations. Internationally it operates 20 co-packing locations and imports the equivalent of more than 11,000 twenty-foot containers (TEUs) from 48 destinations.

Specialized truck manufacturer optimizes cross-border supply chain and bilingual visibility

Challenge: The strategy for a leading manufacturer of diesel and specialized trucks was to grow truck assembly operations in Mexico. To do so, it needed to integrate an already existing U.S. cross-dock network with cross-border activities and optimize shipments between the countries, while ensuring reliability and visibility throughout the supply chain.

Have ERP Vendors Yet to Really Penetrate World of Small and Mid-Sized Businesses?

ERP systems are used throughout most large enterprises, with SAP and Oracle accounting for 80 percent or more of the installed based in regulated sectors such as pharma and energy. But these same systems, with their million-dollar development budgets and long learning curves, have been singularly unsuccessful in smaller enterprises.

Those Pushing Social CRM Shouldn't Forget Lessons Learned When 'Traditional' CRM Started

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, wrote George Santayana, and if you've observed technology long, you know that the cycles of repetition become shorter with each passing year. When it comes to CRM, we're seeing it again in the form of social CRM: companies are making the same mistakes they made at the start of the CRM era.

Which Tool Do You Need to Analyze, Interpret Huge Amounts of Data Collected?

In the last few decades, statisticians and computer scientists have produced a dazzling arsenal of extremely powerful tools to help managers translate data into business decisions.

Analysis of Product Lifecycle Management Applications in Retail Available

An IDC MarketScape report from IDC Retail Insights finds that product lifecycle management has evolved to become a central lynchpin for retailers to conduct customer-centric, efficient and effective brand management. The new study, IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail Product Life-Cycle Management (PLM) Applications 2012 Vendor Assessment, examines the impact of retail PLM and its ability to improve return on capital and brand equity, while reducing risk. Vendors evaluated in this report include: Centric Software, Core Solutions, Dassault Systemes, Gerber, Lectra, NGC, PTC, SAP, Siemens and TradeStone Software.

ES3s Collaborative Solutions Puts Your Product There When it Matters

Challenge: To create a system that allows for product to always be on the shelf, saving the consumer time and making his/her shopping experience easier.

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