Technology | SupplyChainBrain

Technology: Page 746

New Methods for Preventing Cargo Theft
Law enforcement is hot on the trail of cargo thieves. But the thieves are hot on the trail of your shipments.
Podcast Fb4e6a
Code Red: Who are your High Risk Suppliers?
Challenge: A large manufacturer was searching for a provider that could offer an end-to-end solution to enhance their supply chain visibility, identify high risk sourcing countries and suppliers, and streamline their global audit and corrective action management program. They turned to us because of our holistic risk management solutions and services.
Internet of Things Brings Greater Visibility to Ocean Shipping
The ocean shipping industry has traditionally used EDI for shipment tendering, booking and milestone tracking. A new solution has emerged that leverages near real time vessel tracking data to improve shipment planning and tracking.
Iot 3 02
Transforming Supply Chain Operations for the Digital Future
Analyst Insight: The next defining opportunity for supply chain is in digital operations. The scope of digital operations is enormous, and it presents amazing opportunities. But failure - either from moving too fast or too slow - may lead to redundancy or, in extreme cases, extinction. Companies must clearly understand where they are today to drive change successfully and must move with purpose. If they cannot, they will be history. - Peter Anderson, Principal, Advisory, Ernst & Young LLP, & Chekyiu Ng, Senior Manager, Advisory, Ernst & Young LLP
Jan Feb16 Cover Sm 03
Investing to Become 'Fit for Growth'
Analyst Insight: Cost cutting by itself is not fun for most employees and does not inspire them. But getting lean and cost cutting in some areas to make the company "Fit for Growth" is motivational because the goal is to reallocate resources and invest in capabilities that will help the company win. Once supply chain professionals embrace that the purpose of the cost cutting is smarter investment to become more competitive, they will rally around the cause. - Rodger Howell, Principal, PwC's Strategy&; John Plansky, Principal, PwC's Strategy&
Jan Feb16 Cover Sm 02
The Inventory Implications of Apparel Omnichannel
Analyst Insight: For online customers, the buy button is easy; everything behind that is complex. Eighty percent of omnichannel strategy is about inventory strategy. It comes down to making intelligent inventory allocation decisions across the network and building an infrastructure flexible enough to quickly realign inventory to meet customers where they want. The key to omnichannel success is offering the customer multiple options and incentivizing the profitable flows. - Jason Denmon, Apparel Industry Leader, Fortna Inc.
Jan Feb16 Cover Sm 01
Competing with Amazon Business
Analyst Insight: The power has shifted from seller to buyer as consumers continue to bring B2C online shopping expectations and behaviors with them to the B2B markets they work in. Amazon continues to expand both its same-day delivery capabilities and its product offerings to encroach on some traditionally B2B markets like automotive aftermarket parts distribution. Like it or not, your business is being disrupted by, and in competition with, the Earth's largest retailer and marketing-savvy media company. - John Giangrande, Automotive Aftermarket Industry Leader, Fortna Inc.
Jan Feb16 Cover Sm
Retail Apparel Industry Taps RFID for Inventory Accuracy
Analyst Insight: The retail apparel market continues to lead the charge when it comes to deploying innovative technologies like RFID that allow for much higher inventory accuracy levels and can pave the way for omnichannel retail strategies. Both Inditex and H&M have made strong commitments to RFID technology, following in the footsteps of Macy's, long considered the leader when it comes to RFID and apparel. According to industry estimates, nearly 4 billion apparel items were tagged with RFID in 2015. - John Johnson, Senior Content Specialist, Gartner Supply Chain
Jan Feb16 Cover Art Slider
AA Cargo Enhances Air Waybill Tracking Capability
American Airlines Cargo has built new tracking functionality for air waybills (AWBs) into its website.
View Technologies Issues Pair of Smart Antennas
View Technologies has made commercially available the Echo 300 and Echo 302 smart antennas for capturing real-time data for items incorporating RAIN RFID (Passive UHF) tags in retail, manufacturing and logistics.
Southeastern Freight Lines Enhances Canada-U.S. Service
Southeastern Freight Lines, a provider of regional less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation services, is now providing door-to-door cross-border delivery between Canada and the U.S.
ModusLink Launches EPIC for Planning and Collaboration
ModusLink Corp. has launched its Enhanced Planning and Integrated Collaboration (EPIC) tool.
Collaboration Integration 3
Previous Page
Page 746 of 1805
Next Page

Featured Product

Case Studies
Photo: iStock/Anastasiia Yanishevska
Case Studies
How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID
Case Studies
Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact
Mobile geolocation service for track delivery, cargo shipment and freight transportation. Logistic Import Export business (Elements of this image furnished by NASA)
Case Studies
Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking
Franchise business e-commerce online e-marketplace or digital marketing branch expansion for growth or use technology to analyze product consumer data website management plan for sale service concept.
Case Studies
Moving Robots Site-to-Site