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Keeping Merchandise Moving Through an Acquisition

Mergers and acquisitions are common in the business world, but each move brings its own set of challenges. As a company buys key competitors or suppliers, it is often left with the task of consolidating very different warehouse management systems.

How Customers' Online Information Can Be Used to Keep Them from Getting the Best Deal

How much is that doggie in the window? For internet users, the answer may soon be, "It depends on who you are, and how much I know about you." And this trend may upset a host of laws concerning deceptive trade practices, fair pricing and even contract, trespass and computer crime laws.

HighJump Software Issues New Mobile Pre-sales App for Direct Store Delivery

HighJump Software Inc. has released a new version of HighJump Mobile Sales Advantage, the company's mobile pre-sales application for direct store delivery (DSD) businesses.

Procurement Technology Investments Out of Pace with Increased Transportation Spending, Survey Finds

Transportation spending is outpacing the economic recovery, but procurement teams lack the tools needed to boost efficiency and uncover long-hidden savings within logistics networks.

Benefits of Predictive Analytics Being Discovered by More Businesses

The use of predictive analytics is common in industries such as telecommunications, financial services and retail, says Gareth Herschel, an analyst at Gartner Inc. "But overall it's still a relatively small percentage of organizations that use it - maybe 5 percent." That's changing.

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Pier 1 Imports Invests Millions in Distribution Center, E-Commerce Technology

Technology and infrastructure investments will account for 50 percent of Pier 1 Imports' $70m to $75m in planned capital expenditures this year, but the retailer will have a lot of IT-enabled activity to show for its money. Two of the biggest elements are the July 28 launch of Pier 1's new e-commerce site and the planned rollout of its new POS system beginning this fall.

Danish Window and Door Company Doubles Output via RFID

Idealcombi has reduced the time required to produce a custom window or door down to about one minute, using EPC Gen 2 passive UHF tags to automatically adjust the settings on its manufacturing equipment.

Deploying Small-Item Sortation

Small-item fulfillment continues to grow, especially with e-commerce orders, but a lot of traditional sortation technology was never designed to handle smaller and lighter pieces, says John Park, product manager, Accu-Sort Systems.

ALK Technologies Issues New Version of PC-Miler Routing Software

ALK Technologies Inc. has released PC-Miler 26, the latest version of the company's software for routing, mapping and mileage calculations.

PeopleNet Offers Google Earth Views of Onboard Event-Recording Data

Google Earth views of onboard event-recording data are now available within the PeopleNet Fleet Manager application.

Social Commerce Is Important to Retail, But It's About Much More than Having a Facebook Page

Mobility is important to retailers, but it is not mobility for the sake of mobility. Instead, the focus is convergence of e-commerce, mobility and social. And despite the doomsayers on the concepts of social commerce, the greatest increase in the intended use of mobile is to fuel efforts in social commerce.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

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Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

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