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Why Are Traditional Retailers Failing?

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For 3M, Technology Was the Key to a New Supply-Chain Mindset

It only makes sense that The 3M Company, with a business model resting almost entirely upon technology, would eventually get around to applying it to the supply chain.

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End-of-Life Logistics: Expanding the Traditional Supply Chain

Analyst Insight: You design a product, source it, build it, store it, ship it, and your consumer enjoys it... then what? It is inevitable that at some point the original intended use will be over and the product will reach its end of life. What happens now is a topic that is piquing the interests of many traditional and non-traditional supply-chain players. The challenge lays in how to efficiently reintegrate or disposition these products. - Melissa Hadhazy, associate partner, Infosys Consulting

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A Holistic Approach to 'Green' Regulations

Analyst Insight: Global manufacturers must meet the growing number of "green" regulations that are focused on sustainability. From the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive to the United States Conflict Minerals Directive as well as the European Union (EU) directives of Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) and Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), manufacturers must comply with a multitude of regulations that can have a major impact on their business and their supply chain. – Chuck Cimalore, CTO, Omnify Software

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Social Listening Is the Key to Understanding Your Customer

Somebody out there is talking about your product. And you had better be listening.

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WMS Load Test Simulating 500 Users Produces Surprising Discovery

Challenge: Prior to a WMS Go Live, a power equipment manufacturer wanted to stress test new servers to ensure additional load would not impact operations. Time-strapped, they turned to us to develop a test strategy to emulate 300 RF devices simultaneously working in the WMS.

Don't Blink: How Pop-ups Are Transforming Retail

The new era of retail isn't just about the internet. Welcome to the world of the pop-up store.

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Carrier Transicold Says New Tool Locates Source of Temperature Abnormalities

For refrigerated haulers who require independent verification of temperatures inside trucks and trailers or immediate documentation for receivers, Carrier Transicold is offering its DataLink 2 recorder. The system, for single-temperature or multi-temperature applications, uses up to three independent temperature sensors, providing an added layer of verification beyond the refrigeration system's built-in recording ability, the refrigeration equipment company says.

Retail Tackles the Omnichannel

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Grace Medical Center Uses ZulaFly RTLS to Prevent Food, Medication Loss

Grace Medical Center, a 123-bed hospital in the Grace Health System, has prevented $15,000 in food from spoiling since August by installing a real-time location system (RTLS) to monitor the temperatures of refrigerators and freezers, the hospital says. The system, made by ZulaFly, consists of the company's own cloud-hosted Fuzion software platform to capture data from CenTrak RFID temperature sensors.

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How Social Compliance Can Make or Break a Supply Chain

Global companies today live or die by the effectiveness of their social compliance programs.

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How One 'Small' Food Recall Can Impact an Entire Supply Chain

It's called the multiplier effect, and it describes how the recall of a single ingredient in the food supply chain can have a huge impact on manufacturers, retailers and brands - not to mention the health and safety of consumers.

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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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