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The Top 10 Risks Facing Supply Chain Professionals
The results from Lehigh's latest Business Supply Chain Risk Management Index Report are in and cybersecurity is a bigger issue than ever.
Walmart’s Latest Service: Ultra Late-Night Delivery
Walmart customers can now place delivery orders until midnight, the latest in a series of recent programs aimed at accommodating the varying schedules of its customers.
South Korea Finally Overtakes China in Goods Exported to U.S.
Fueled by U.S. consumer demand for semiconductors, South Korea continues to make huge inroads as China fades.
SAP Unveils New AI-Driven Supply Chain Innovations
SAP's new AI-driven enhancements will leverage real-time data, enhance product development, and bolster manufacturing effectiveness.

Technology Resources

Boosting Productivity: The Benefits of Automation and AI for Consumer Products Companies
Utilizing technology to solve supply chain problems or seize new business opportunities for consumer products companies.
Unlocking Efficiency: Blue Yonder’s Real-Time Warehouse Management Solution
To maintain a competitive edge in an ever-evolving environment, manufacturers, retailers, distributors and third-party logistics providers need to...


Technology News

CNH Global: Two Product Flows - One Global Operating Platform
As a world leader in agricultural and construction equipment, CNH embraced a cloud-based platform to gain visibility into its inbound and outbound flows. Learn how the company gained a single tool for all ocean and air rates, increased visibility and control of their supply chain, and improved analytics with high-quality data on the GT Nexus Platform — "With GT Nexus, we have an information platform which gives us a level of transparency needed to give…"

Visibility in the Import Supply Chain
Leading importers are reaping the benefits of end-to-end global supply chain visibility and control. Using concrete examples from the field, this document focuses on specific areas of the importer operation and shows how a clear view of the end-to-end supply chain can deliver unprecedented value to the bottom line.

UPS Logistics a Masterpiece of Streamlined Supply Chain Management
Over the past century, UPS has become one of the world’s premier logistics companies. Among its notable strides are its “direct-to-store” delivery model, its forward-thinking embrace of the “cloud” as a new platform for international shipments and its dedication to ensuring that Brown also means green.

Steelwedge S&OP Insight and Why S&OP Belongs in the Cloud
Steelwedge S&OP Insight, a series of high-performance analytics dashboards, delivers actionable intelligence from big business data in a few minutes.

Leveraging Plant Communications to Slash Downtime and Speed Response Time
In today’s aggressive marketplace, there’s no room for continual delays and costly disruptions to production. Whether they’re managing a single food processing facility or a string of multinational automotive plants, manufacturers are looking for new ways to improve performance, increase safety, optimize resources and run their operation smoothly.

Driving High-Performance Distribution Operations
FORTE named "Cool Vendors in Supply Chain Services, 2013," Gartner Report. Learn more by downloading the full report which includes the FORTE WCS 2.0 white paper.

5 Best Practices for Procurement Report
In today’s complex world, the responsibilities of procurement and purchasing have never been higher. Developing a competitive advantage in this critical business area can drive cost savings, free up time, and ensure that suppliers are giving their all for your company.

Mobility Assessment - Extending Your Investment in Rugged Mobile Devices
This white paper discusses common issues that can lead to device malfunctions and how your organization can overcome these problems without investing in all new equipment. We will review each issue in turn and provide insight into potential causes. We then outline the stages of the Miles Data Mobility Assessment, which helps determine whether your devices, software and network are fully optimized.

Uncover Hidden Cost Savings in Your Supply Chain
Product flow-path optimization, Production footprint analysis, Demand segmentation and inventory right-sizing, and Transportation route optimization. Each of these techniques can deliver the same fast, easy and unexpected benefits. They are fast in that they do not require years to implement.

GT Nexus to Provide Cloud-Based Global Supply Chain Visibility and Logistics Control Platform to HP
GT Nexus will assist HP global operations in accelerating the realization of their supply chain transformation goals with a suite of business applications will deliver supply chain visibility across different HP product supply chains.

Fulfillment by Amazon: A Deep Dive into Amazon’s Global Shipping Network
In this eBook, we outline the benefits of Fulfillment by Amazon for third-party sellers, share tips for getting started and show you how ChannelAdvisor’s latest technology can help.

A Deep Dive into Amazon’s Global Shipping & Fulfillment Network
Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is Amazon’s fulfillment service and an incredibly powerful stimulus for the marketplace’s growth. It also offers a myriad of benefits to participating third-party sellers. With this eBook, you'll learn the benefits of FBA for third-party sellers, tips for getting started and how ChannelAdvisor can help.

Mobile Technology Could Save Transport & Logistics Companies an Average of $460,000 Annually
A recent survey conducted by Intermec revealed that transport and logistics companies could save approximately $459,000 per annum as a result of process re-engineering and the implementation of mobile technology across workflows, but a significant proportion of companies may be missing out on these potential savings.

Omni-Channel and Beyond: Top 9 Strategies for Retail Supply Chain Design
What if treating all products the same in your supply chain ultimately costs you money and diminishes your service level?

Three Tips for Creating a Supply Chain Design Center of Excellence Within Your Business
Building a supply chain design center of excellence within a business often begins with a small group finding tactical quick wins and leveraging those results to justify a greater business function.

To Build or Buy Business Software?
The decision of whether to buy or build ERP software will require an honest assessment of the needs of your organization, and what it will take to meet those needs. Sometimes the nature of the software project dictates the necessary direction.

Think You Know Retail? Think Again - Mobile - The New Way to Shop
Retail is about more than providing consumers with great products. In 2013, the National Retail Federation launched This is Retail to highlight the industry’s opportunities for life-long careers, how retailers strengthen communities, and the critical role that retail plays in driving innovation.

World Vision’s LMMS Advances Aid with Intermec CN50, FieldWorker
Last Mile Mobile Solutions (LMMS) - "Through LMMS, we are now able to scan beneficiary ID cards with the Intermec CN50 mobile computers. This creates the verification that they've received their relief supplies."

Take Your Retail Operation to New Heights - Intermec 70 Series RFID Ultra-Rugged Mobile Computers
Combining a comprehensive range of rugged technologies, a collaborative approach, and strong industry partnerships, Intermec makes implementation of your retail supply chain systems simpler, easier, more complete and effective.

Evaluating Label Printers to Support Transportation & Logistics Operations
This white paper identifies the features that save time for users, and those that simplify integration and management for IT support staff, so the printer will return maximum value for long-term, low-cost reliable operations.


Featured Companies

ReverseLogix
ReverseLogix is the only end-to-end, centralized and fully integrated returns management system (RMS) built specifically for retail, ecommerce, manufacturing, and 3PL organizations. Whether B2B, B2C, or hybrid, the ReverseLogix platform facilitates, manages, and reports on the entire returns…
Baird
For more than 95 years, Baird has been a strong, stable and trusted financial partner across generations and through many market cycles. Today Baird serves individuals, families, businesses and communities across the United States as well as institutional clients around the…
SkuVault
SkuVault is the warehouse management technology platform that empowers small and medium enterprises to optimize operations so they can scale and compete in the growing ecommerce and omnichannel markets at a fraction of the cost.
Saddle Creek Logistics Services
Saddle Creek is an omnichannel supply chain solutions company providing a variety of integrated logistics services.  Our custom solutions leverage advanced operational methods and sophisticated technologies to help retailers, manufacturers and ecommerce companies get products where they need to…
IBM
Supply chain management solutions from IBM deliver supply chain planning and execution capabilities across the extended enterprise, enabling companies to anticipate, control and react to demand and supply volatility within the supply chain. Managing how and where you fulfill orders,…
TIBCO
TIBCO Software Inc. is a global leader in infrastructure and business intelligence software. Whether it’s optimizing inventory, cross-selling products, or averting crisis before it happens, TIBCO uniquely delivers the Two-Second Advantage®—the ability to capture the right information at…
ControlPay
Cloud-based logistics solutions anywhere in the world in a flexible and cost-effective fashion. Our logistics experts are driven by cost savings as much by value through perfect logistics data. ControlPay is the only Freight Audit provider that facilitates high maintenance…
Loftware
The Leader in Enterprise Labeling: Accurate, consistent and flexible labeling for supply chain success. Loftware integrates proven solutions with your business processes to standardize mission-critical labeling. Loftware ensures that you can quickly and easily support complex, global and high volume…
RightHand Robotics
RightHand Robotics is a leader in providing end-to-end solutions that reduce the cost of e-commerce order-fulfillment of electronics, apparel, grocery, pharmaceuticals, and countless other industries. Unlike traditional factory robots that can be complex to set up and are singly purposed,…
Resonant Link
Resonant Link delivers 5x faster and highly-efficient wireless power for applications big to small, from massive lift trucks to medical devices smaller than a fingernail, to help people, businesses, and the planet thrive. What can fast, safe, and reliable wireless…
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