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Ortec Consulting Partners With Microsoft for Big Data Portal

Ortec Consulting has launched its Big Data Portal, providing analytics as a service.

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Not Designed for E-Commerce, Logistics Networks Begin to Feel Strain

One of the major findings from the 27th Annual State of Logistics report is that "gaps" in infrastructure and "accelerating trends for speed" will increasingly put pressure on a logistics system not designed for e-commerce driven "last mile, last minute" delivery service.

Scan-Based Trading Technology Isn't Going Away. Distributors Need to Adapt to That Reality

Scan-based trading (SBT) is often thought of as a process solely for larger big box retailers. This business model transitions the relationship with suppliers from purchased inventory to vendor-managed inventory, with the checkout scan data serving as the channel to pay for the goods to the distributor. The data collected from the transactions is then delivered to the distributor, as a form of a receipt.

To Attract Millennials, Manufacturers Need to Show Them the Technology

Manufacturers are recruiting to attract skilled labor to a growing number of positions and to replenish a workforce from which baby boomers are retiring at a rapid pace. By 2025, there will be two million unfilled manufacturing jobs, according to a study by the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte Consulting.

Investing in Cybersecurity to Exceed $1Tr by 2021 - and Still May Not Keep Up with Threats

Worldwide spending on cybersecurity is predicted to top $1tr for the five-year period from 2017 to 2021, according to the Cybersecurity Market Report, published by Cybersecurity Ventures.

Smart Wearables Market Expected to See Huge Spurt in Growth This Year Over 2015

The worldwide wearables market will reach 101.9 million units in 2016, which would represent 29 percent growth over 2015, according to IDC research.

IoT Data Predicts Machine Failures, Lowers Safety Stock, Study Says

By using Internet of Things (IoT) data to predict machine failures, companies can reduce costly inventory stock while improving their ability to meet service levels, according to a joint research project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and managed services provider OnProcess Technology.

Dental Supplies Company Exemplifies Digital Transformation Through Cloud, Mobile, IoT

You probably don't think of Henry Schein as a technology company. In fact, you probably don't think of Henry Schein at all. At No. 268 on the Fortune 500, it is one of the least known names on the list, in the most mundane of businesses - wholesaling supplies to dentists. But Henry Schein has managed to place itself at the center of a technological revolution. It has turned its dull-as-mouthwash catalogue business into the leading platform for digital dentistry, and increasingly for other medical practices.

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Chemical Industry to Be Transformed by Continuous Collection, Analysis of Data - PwC

The advent of continuous data collection and analysis has the potential to change the face of the chemical industry, and will create the need for platforms allowing companies to analyse a material throughout its value chain, consultants at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said.

Investment Urged in Tracking Technologies to Protect Consumers From Food-borne Illnesses

One in six Americans get food-borne diseases each year with 3,000 of those cases resulting in death. Food and beverage retailers are strategizing to avoid such risks for consumers while keeping their profit margins intact. A report from IDC urges them to invest in tracking and other technologies.

Controlling the Uncontrollable in Supply Chain Management

If you think about it, the supply chain's action is outside the office. It is in a factory making things, a warehouse packing and shipping things, in a store where customers are shopping, or in a conveyance on the move.

Five Trends Driving Digitization of the Supply Chain

The digital economy is putting pressure on traditional supply chain models to conform to the "now" generation. To avoid disruption, companies must give customers what they want, when they want it and how they want it.

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