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How WMS & OMS Can Drive Customer-Centric Growth
While versions of warehouse management systems (WMS) and order management systems (OMS) have existed since large-scale commerce, the need for smart, agile, and scalable supply chain management solutions has never been greater.
Five Real-World Digital Twins in the Warehouse User Cases
If automation is something you are considering for your warehouse, you will need to do some careful research and planning to make sure you’re making the right decision. All this hard work will help make the transition to automation...
How Businesses Can Strengthen Their Supply Chains & Build Future-Ready Supply Networks
Many businesses are bringing parts production back to the countries where it was originally performed, to be closer to consumers – so-called restoring, similarly, with nearshoring, production is moved to a country close to the target market, this can often be...
Increase Warehouse Efficiency with These Technologies
Looking for a way to make your warehouse run smoother? Investing in the following technological advancements may be the answer.

Best Practices Resources

New TMS Leads to Optimized Freight Management for Greenhouse
One of the largest greenhouses in North America achieves dramatic cost savings with optimization and rate management.
The Business Case for Transportation Management
This whitepaper examines how a transportation management system (TMS) can help companies – from small-to-midsized businesses to large enterprises –...


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Three Months of Planning, One Over-Dimensional Load
Anyone involved in moving heavy or oversize loads knows that some take more effort than others. That was certainly the case with a 94,000-pound scissor-lift platform that stretches 110-feet long and spans 24 feet 6 inches – taking up two lanes of highway.

Specialized Solutions: Hauling a Rocket’s Engine
After private spaceflight company, Blue Origin, finished assembling its first full-scale BE-4 rocket engine, it needed to be tested. That testing would be crucial to determine whether the BE-4 is ready to be used in a rocket designed to bring cargo and people into outer space.

Transporting 30,000 Pounds of Scientific Balloons
At the forefront of scientific ballooning research, the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas called on Gwynn Logistics LLC (GWG) in Denton, Texas to coordinate the move of 30,000 pounds of scientific balloons to NASA’s Fort Sumner, New Mexico launch location.

Greenpeace Report Praises Apple’s Closed-Loop Supply Chain, Slams Samsung and Amazon
While Apple featured as the second most responsible company, Samsung and Amazon faced heavy criticism from the report with the authors going so far as to say Amazon is “one of the least transparent companies in the world in terms of its environmental performance.”

Enabling Companies to Execute Sophisticated Blockchain Processes with Trading Partners
One Network delivers new One Chain™ solution offering game-changing multi-party blockchain apps to be built while making them available to existing trading partners.

Demand for Kuebix Technology Drives Executive Management Team Expansion
Kuebix provides a multi-tenant, SaaS, cloud-based TMS that can be used for all size businesses - and for all modes. Because of growing demand for the Kuebix technology, the company is added decades of expertise to its executive management team.

What’s Next for Better Network Performance?
Your business needs a network approach that can be as dynamic as your business and the times - one that can scale and meet you wherever you are now, and wherever you may go in the future.

The Actual Cost of Ecommerce Fulfillment Errors: Lost Customers, Lost Profitability
With consumer expectations continually on the rise, and the willingness for leading e-commerce retailers to fulfill them, many brick and mortar retailers find themselves struggling to adapt to the speed and complexity of omnichannel order fulfillment.

L’Oreal S.A. Creates Award Winning Transportation Solution with LTL Partners
A leading distributor of professional salon products in the U.S. forms unique partnerships with its key LTLs to lower transport costs, reduce its carbon footprint and improve service to its 565 store locations.

Top 5 Myths about Cybersecurity Uncovered
Despite cybersecurity being such a burning topic, there are still several questions and assumptions surrounding it that disallow organizations from truly arming themselves against cyber attacks.

A Global Supply Chain of Collaborative Knowledge
After only online collaborations, four MicroMasters students meet in person for the first time - and go on to win a worldwide supply chain competition.

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018
David Cearley, vice president, and Gartner Fellow details the Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends 2018 including artificial intelligence, immersive experiences, digital twins, event-thinking and continuous adaptive security.

How Advancing Technologies Challenge the Position of a Company Chief Executive Officer
McKinsey invited Bower alumni from companies across Asia, Europe, and North America, more than 75 chief executives and board chairs, to share concerns and offer one another advice on how technology is changing the role of the Chief Executive Officer.

10 Best Ways to Attract Top Talent for Your Business
Attracting top talent for your small business is a critical component in building a cost-effective, efficient, and stellar team; this article offers ten tips for inviting highly qualified employees to join your company.

5 Essential Technology Tools to Include in Your Information Technology Budget
Software, tools, and apps can quickly add up in price, but you must consider these five items as non-negotiable essentials necessary to improve your information technology infrastructure and overall business operations and profits.

Bringing the Internet of Things to Fresh Food Cold Chain Logistics & Supply Chain Management
Food supply chain startup Verigo has launched a new quality analysis platform that enables pallet level monitoring to provide real-time analysis of fresh products, allowing growers, wholesalers, and retailers to increase quality and reduce losses of produce in transit.

Follow These 7 Habits of Successful Entrepreneurs
If you’re ready to step up your business game, this article describes in detail seven tips that can help you become a better entrepreneur and spark productivity, motivation, and inspiration.

6 Reasons Veterans Make Outstanding Employees
The next time your company is hiring and you see a veteran’s résumé come through to your desk, make sure to take a second look - you might have just found your next, and best, employee.

Rebuilding in the Wake of Hurricane Harvey
In the immediate aftermath of hurricane Harvey, Frontier Business mobilized their teams to restore service to the affected communities throughout Texas so businesses could get back online and operate with as little disruption as possible.

Logistics to Circumvent the Toys R Us Trauma
After struggling for years, toy store chain Toys R Us filed for bankruptcy last week, in this article Dan Clark, founder, and president of Kuebix details how a transportation management system, built with the freight intelligence necessary to advance in the toughest of times, could help retailers avoid unnecessary supply chain turbulences.


 


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