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GT Nexus Wraps Up Merger with TradeCard

GT Nexus has completed its merger with TradeCard. The combined company, with headquarters in Oakland, Calif., is operating under the GT Nexus name.

Food Safety: It's All About the Supply Chain

As tainted-food scandals go, it wasn't so bad. The discovery early this year of unlabeled horse meat in European food products wasn't for the most part a safety issue. It was a violation of cultural norms, to be sure, as well as a truth-in-packaging problem. Most of all, it was a supply-chain failure.

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Pain Points in Manufacturing and Supply Chain

Kieran Brennan, director of business development with Syncreon Technology, discusses the "yo-yo" effect of choosing between complete manufacturing at the factory, and relying on postponement strategies in regional markets.

Integrated Modules Meet Today's GTM Functionality Needs, Allow for Tomorrow's Growth

Challenge: A multi-division home products company using spreadsheets to manage import, export and FTZ operations struggled with compliance. Its structure, extensive product lines and multiple manufacturing locales required one solution that could maintain divisional separation but produce comprehensive reporting; provide global visibility; and deliver intelligence to inform sourcing and logistics decisions.

Seagate Strives to Slash Inventory

Seagate Technology has launched a program to eliminate costly and wasteful inventory from its supply chain. Scott Robbleloth, director of supply chain, explains how the company did it.

Asprova Releases New Production-Scheduling System

Asprova Corp. has released Asprova Editor 2000, the latest version of its product-scheduling application. Arranged into seven modules, it employs 21 functions from the vendor's supply-chain management system, Asprova APS/SCM.

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Aljex Software Integrates With Mobile Apps Smartphone Application

Aljex Software has integrated with Mobile Apps, a smartphone application from uFollowit Inc.

The Critical Challenges of High-Tech Supply Chains

Perry Santia, senior vice president of Genpact, provides the "big picture" of how high-tech supply chains are coping with the challenges of serving customers today.

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Collaboration Is the Trend In Managing Today's Sustainable Supply Chains

There is only so much that a single organization is going to be able to achieve to improve the impact it has on the environment or society, without collaborating with the wider aspects of its supply chain.

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Though Traditional Supply Chain Collaboration Is Dead, Technology Can Help

A recent Deloitte survey of 600 executives at manufacturing and retail companies found that 63 percent were highly concerned about risks within the extended supply chain comprising vendors and customers, ranking it among their top-two concerns. The executives surveyed also cited "lack of acceptable cross-functional collaboration" as the number one obstacle to managing risk effectively. While these survey results indicating a serious lack of collaboration and coordination among trading partners are certainly worrisome, should they really come as a surprise?

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Growing Industry Trends Depend on Optimization Tools

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Ortec Consulting Enables Fact-Based Decisionmaking

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