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How Companies Are Tackling the Challenge of Risk Management

A conversation with corporate thought leaders about the growing awareness of the need for a vigorous supply-chain risk-management effort, and how they're working to achieve that goal.

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Cheap Money Is No Replacement for Working Capital Optimization

There's no lack of creative options for managing cash in the supply chain today. So why aren't more companies taking advantage of them?

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Continental Tires of Paper; Embraces EDI to Link Up With Suppliers

Ten years ago, Continental Tire realized that manual, paper-based communications with suppliers weren't getting the job done with efficiency and accuracy. So it turned to an EDI-based business network for help.

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The Making of a 'Personalized' Online Wine Merchant

Club W, now known as Winc, was launched to provide online consumers with a curated source of fine wines on a subscription basis. But rapid growth was challenging the company's ability to fill orders accurately and efficiently.

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Strength in Numbers: Forwarder Network Taps CargoSmart's Carrier Data

With the goal of building up a worldwide network of medium-sized freight forwarders, BuyCo For Growth sought a link to ocean carriers that would provide instant access to schedules, rates and other data critical to the movement of its customers' cargo.

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Controlling Carrier Spend: Blount Takes Chainsaw to Its Logistics Costs

Blount International, a maker of farm, forestry and gardening equipment, needed to get a handle on its global logistics spend. A performance-management tool from Trax Technologies cut costs and helped the company to take a long-range, strategic view of operations.

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Barcoding, Inc. Launches Active Asset Tracker

Barcoding, Inc. has launched its Active Asset Tracker (AAT). The tool draws on the internet of things and Bluetooth Low Energy beacons to provide companies with near-real-time visibility of physical inventory.

REZ-1 Acquires International Asset Systems

REZ-1, Inc., a provider of asset management, equipment reservation, billing and reload services to the domestic intermodal industry, has acquired International Asset Systems (IAS), a vendor of cloud-based software for global logistics and transportation management.

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Break Away From Antiquated Supply Chains, Drive Disruption by Moving to True Networks

By now, even pundits acknowledge that supply chains are not really "chains" but rather networks.

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Enspire Commerce Issues Update of Omnichannel Customer Platform

Enspire Commerce, provider of a cloud-based, omnichannel customer-engagement platform, has released a new version of its omnichannel order-management system (OMS).

Why Supply Chains Can Follow the Goods, But Not the Money

For all the talk of "collaboration," the relationship between buyer and supplier in the supply chain is often more like a tug of war: in the end, one side wins, and the other loses.

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Zero Impact Isn't Enough: Going 'Net Positive' for Global Sustainability

When it comes to assessing the impact of business practices on the environment, the bar is being raised. Mere sustainability is no longer enough: now it's all about becoming "net positive."

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