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Survey Details How Manufacturers Seek to Improve Their Supply Chains

The key supply chain challenge today is the juxtaposition of complex and extended supply networks with increasingly fast and volatile demand networks - and the increasingly ineffective role for inventory as a way to buffer cadence mismatches.

The Cutting Edge of Robotics in Material Handling

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"Goods to Person": A Valuable Warehouse Efficiency Tool

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Coping With Complexity in the Service Parts Supply Chain

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New Facility at Johns Hopkins Tracks Food, Assets, Staff

When Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine opened its new 1.6 million-square-foot facility with two 12-story towers this year, the building featured a real-time location system (RTLS) that enables the hospital to monitor the locations of hundreds of nurses, as well as thousands of pumps, wheelchairs and other high-value moving equipment.

Arena Solutions Teams With Octopart to Aid in Supply Visibility

Arena Solutions, a vendor of cloud-based product lifecycle-management (PLM) software for managing bills of materials (BOMs), has forged a partnership with Octopart, a search engine for electronic parts.

GE Capital Fleet Services Debuts Mobile, Tablet App for Fuel-Cost Calculation

GE Capital Fleet Services has launched IntelliGauge, a mobile fuel and carbon-dioxide calculator which allows users to compare the fuel costs of their current vehicles against future models.

Scorecards Can Assess the Long-Term Viability of Your Suppliers - or Can They?

One of the often overlooked and undervalued components of supplier selection is trying to determine the supplier's long-term potential. Simply stated, it is not very difficult to identify the lowest price option during an RFP process. The key for long-term success is based on analyzing each supplier's potential for the long haul, encompassing areas such as strategic alignment, cultural fit, common delivery centers, industry outlook and social responsibility efforts. The best overall strategic value is not necessarily the lowest cost.

Amware Logistics Acquires Product and Literature Fulfillment Provider ParcelPort

Amware Logistics LLC has acquired the assets of ParcelPort LLC, a provider of high-volume product and literature fulfillment services. The latter will be integrated into Amware under the name Amware Fulfillment Services.

Epicor Software Offers New Version of ERP, Related Applications

Epicor Software Corp. has introduced a new version of its enterprise resource planning (ERP) application. The update contains more than 300 new features and enhancements across every suite, including the Epicor ICE Business Architecture.

ScottTech Assists Military Manufacturer Avoid Costly Downtime Penalties

Challenge: ScottTech had a customer who needed to transport 18 horizontal carousels to another building. The customer uses ScottTech's PickPro WCS warehouse control software which interfaces with their SAP system. PickPro WCS manages the inventory and provides software controls to various automated storage and retrieval systems. ScottTech's customer was subject to a penalty for each day manufacturing was not operational beyond the 14 days.

Is WMS Ready for the Cloud?

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

Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

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

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