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hybris to Partner With LivePerson for Online Commerce

Commerce platform provider hybris is partnering with LivePerson Inc. to offer a service that will enable electronic-commerce sites to offer a live chat feature to their customers.

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Going Lean with Key Suppliers Can Reduce Your Production Costs

Many manufacturers that have applied lean concepts to their operations find that although they do achieve significant savings, their production costs remain high. This is, in most cases, attributable to material costs, which, depending on industry can range from 60 to 80 percent of total production costs.

Dassault Systemes Offers New Products for Aerospace, Education, Automotive

Dassault Systemes, a vendor of software for product design and lifecycle management, has launched a new application for aerospace and defense companies.

How a Paper Products Manufacturer Got Its Transportation Costs Under Control

The Newark Group, a producer of recycled paperboard products, operates on extremely thin margins. It needed a transportation-management system that could automatically seek out the lowest-cost carriers, and search out opportunities for further savings through the booking of continuous moves.

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Transplace Releases Update of Freight-Allocation Module

Transplace, a vendor of transportation-management services and logistics software, has released version 2.0 of its Freight Allocation Module (FAM).

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How to Make Your Forecast a Little Less Wrong

A conversation with Rick Davis, vice president of business planning with Kellogg USA.

How Supply Chain Became the 'Truth-Teller' at Johnson & Johnson

Eight p.m. in the "war room" of Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems: 150 people from all over the world are on a conference call. The topic is a supply outage of trocars, a medical device used in microscopic surgery. Someone on the line, clearly untroubled by the crisis, speaks up. "It's just a trocar," he says.

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Chicago Public Schools Automate EDI Processes

Recognizing that an organization its size could no longer handle certain processes manually, the nation's third-largest school system finds a provider to unite its operations with its Oracle E-Business Suite.

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E2open Debuts Tool for Analytics, Decision Support

E2open, a vendor of cloud-based software for collaborative execution across global trading networks, has introduced E2 Rapid Resolutions.

Legal Challenges Facing Logistics Companies

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ARINC Unveils Cargo-Management Tool for Smaller Forwarders

ARINC Inc. has introduced e-Forwarder, a service that provides cargo-operations management for small to mid-sized freight forwarders.

The Re-shoring Debate: Sentiment or Hard Numbers?

As manufacturers consider shifting production from China back to the West, the U.S. could become an economically viable alternative faster than you think.

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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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