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Late to the Party: Healthcare Giants Embrace RFID, With Immediate Results

BJC HealthCare joins with Cardinal Health and Cook Medical in a three-way pilot to apply RFID tags to items at the supplier stage. Will their success goad a technologically backward industry to follow suit, and eliminate billions of dollars of waste from the supply chain?

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Conflict Minerals Disclosure: A Progress Report

It's been about a year since the Securities and Exchange Commission began imposing its rule on the disclosure of conflict materials from the Democratic Republic of Congo in manufactured products. Are companies up to speed?

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The Rise of the Agile, Networked Platform

Don't get left behind by more companies with more innovative and agile supply chains. Supply chain digitization is happening now. New networked technology platforms are co-evolving with new networked business models, together enabling companies to rapidly find, assess and integrate with trading partners in order to swiftly create and deliver unique and valuable products and services.

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Billion Dollar Revenues, Seven Factories, One Powerful Planning System

Challenge: Seven factories, seven different scheduling systems with no SAP integration. That was the challenge facing one of the world's largest manufacturers of powder coatings. The company suffered high inventory levels, sub-optimal utilization of plants, and inconsistent service levels.

Synchrono Issues Update of Manufacturing Intelligence Software

Synchrono LLC, a provider of manufacturing software, has released version 6.0 of SyncOperations, its manufacturing intelligence system built on Savigent.

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Transforming & Re-engineering Supply Chains

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Changing the Flu Vaccine Delivery Model By 600%

Challenge: DMLogic was challenged by a major pharmaceutical manufacturer to help change the delivery model of their seasonal flu vaccine from wholesale's distribution to direct shipments to physicians' offices and retail outlets. The impact was to radically change their shipping operations from 500 cases to 30,000 individual doses per week.

How RFID Can Ensure Product Quality and Reduce Recalls

You can't tackle the problem of product recalls without data.

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Banner Health: Balancing Supply-Chain Cost and Quality

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Supply-Chain Financing: Challenges and Successes

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How Retailers Can Ensure Their Supply Chains Deliver on Consumers' Expectations

Retailers and their suppliers are under more pressure than ever before to deliver more goods to more destinations faster. To stay competitive, "retailers need to know where things are at all times so they can redirect shipments, rebalance inventories and respond to new demands on the fly," says Rich Becks, general manager, Industry Value Chains, E2open, which delivers cloud-based supply chain collaboration solutions.

Are Companies Doing Enough to Stop Procurement Fraud?

Procurement fraud is costing global companies billions of dollars a year. So why can't they put a stop to it?

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