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How the Metaverse Has Changed Manufacturing

While for some companies the concept of digital twins may be new, others in the manufacturing space have been using them for years now, proving not just their effectiveness, but also their ability to drive innovation in an increasingly competitive economy.

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Fruit of the Loom Gets Up to Date on Financial Tech

A new platform for automating and managing financial processes has helped the company to consolidate multiple environments and gain access to billions of key data points.

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Visibility of Scope 3 Emissions Is Lacking. It’s Time to Fix That.

Companies seeking to decarbonize their supply chains will never reach that goal without the help of suppliers over which they assert no direct control.

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How a Seattle Nursery Survived the Shift to Online Business

The pandemic forced Plant Shop to transition quickly to a delivery model. A software application was the solution to optimizing the daily routing plan.

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How a Major Restaurant Equipment Supplier Weathered the Pandemic

With a policy of keeping large amounts of inventory on hands, Parts Town was ready for any supply disruption. But it was also aided by having previously installed a goods-to-person system in the warehouse.

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Heavy-Equipment Maker Tears Down Functional Silos With a Digital Twin

E.D. Etnyre & Co., the venerable manufacturer of heavy equipment for road maintenance and preservation, looks for a way to share data from multiple legacy systems across the organization.

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Five Reasons Perishables Supply Chain Managers Hate Their Data Loggers, and How to Do Better

Is your data logger living up to its potential? Many fall short in providing actionable data analytics and supply chain insights — it's time to expect more.

Podcast | No Forced Labor in Your Supply Chain? Prove It!

For U.S. importers, the hurdles for proving that their supply chains are free of forced labor are getting higher all the time.

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Watch: How Can We Transform Supply Chain Planning?

Hank Ackerman, principal at Argano, advises how to make supply chain planning transformations successful.

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Watch: The Importance of Decision Intelligence

Decision intelligence is becoming key to the ability of companies to deal with an unprecedented volume of data that's necessary to making supply chain decisions today, says Fred Laluyaux, president and chief executive officer of Aera Technology.

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Getting to the Core of Product Recalls

Amid strained supply chains, heightened consumer demand, increased regulatory scrutiny and looming economic factors, companies must monitor for changes and implement clear procedures to ensure product safety in today’s environment.

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The Next Wave of Warehouse Robotics: Hype vs. Hope

Robots are increasingly characterized as a panacea for numerous challenges in retail warehouses, but where does the hype end and reality begin?

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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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