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Holiday Demand Increases Need for Warehouse Organization

Online retail continues to grow at a rapid rate, with a 14.6-percent increase in the category in 2015, totaling $341.7bn. That has major implications for warehouse optimization.

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Famous Footwear Takes a Giant Step Forward in Store Fulfillment

Caleres Inc., parent of the Famous Footwear, Naturalizer and Sam Edelman retail chains, sheds costly transportation assets and replaces them with software that supports a network of trusted pool distributors.

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Valmet Mining Introduces RFID-Enabled Filter Cloths

Finnish technologies company Valmet Technologies is launching a radio frequency identification system to track the use and replacement of cloth filters for its customers, including mining, paper and energy companies.

Australia Detains Container Ship for Food Waste Dumping

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority's decision to detain a Hong Kong flagged container ship which dumped food waste in close proximity to Fraser Island in May was affirmed by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal at a recent hearing.

American Airlines Launches Dallas-Madrid Service

American Airlines announced the launch of a 787-9 service between Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) and Madrid Barajas (MAD) in Spain. The widebody jet provides capacity for up to 36 LD3 positions, or 12 pallets.

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3D Printing Is Taking Off Across Manufacturing Value Chains, Research Says

The potential of 3D printing in manufacturing is starting to move beyond the testing phase into applications with measurable impact on product design, supply chains and maintenance and repair, according to a manufacturing insights survey by International Data Corporation.

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Target's RFID and Fulfillment Investments Lead to Increase in Digital Sales

Year over year, Target says it's surpassed expectations for 2016 thanks to investments in inventory data. Although the third quarter saw a 0.2-percent decline in sales from last year, its comparable digital channel sales grew 26 percent over last year.

European Commission Proposes Tax Rules to Support E-Commerce

The European Commission has unveiled a series of measures to improve the Value Added Tax (VAT) environment for e-commerce businesses in the E.U. The proposals will allow consumers and companies, in particular start-ups and SMEs, to buy and sell goods and services more easily online, the European Commission says.

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Cargobase Adds Ocean Freight to Its List of Ad Hoc Freight Modes

Cargobase, an online platform for ad hoc freight, has announced the addition of ocean freight as an available freight mode that can be procured and managed through its platform. This is in addition to the five other freight modes Cargobase supports: aircraft charters, on-board-couriers, next-flight-out, regular air freight and road freight.

Airbus Testing Low-Cost RTLS From Uwinloc

Aircraft manufacturer Airbus is among a handful of European manufacturers and logistics companies that are testing a new radio frequency identification solution that offers the benefits of active real-time location system (RTLS) RFID technology without the cost of an active system or the need for batteries.

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U.K. Manufacturing Growth Slows

Growth in U.K. manufacturing slowed in November as the weak exchange rate continued to drive up input costs. In response firms raised factory gate prices, raising fears this might offset any positive effect of a weaker pound on exports.

Big Data Reveals the Real Picture of China's Economy, But Can It Survive?

Wu Haishan was at Princeton studying how schools of fish swim together when the crowd behavior of a much bigger group grabbed his attention: his 1.35 billion fellow Chinese. It was Lunar New Year back home in 2014, and Baidu, operator of the country's biggest search engine, had created an animation showing all the trips the Chinese had made during the holiday, which demographers say is the largest annual human migration anywhere. Wu, who'd seen the animation, soon joined Baidu as a data scientist in Beijing. With the company's vast amounts of user location information, he's come up with ingenious ways to measure economic activity.

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