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Happy Returns Partners With Shein and Forever 21 to Simplify Returns
The UPS-owned company launches its new buy-online, return-in-store (BORIS) solution at 300 Forever 21 stores nationwide.
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.

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

Deployment of Rugged Mobile Computers Boost Data Capture Capabilities at PGA
Learn how the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) deployed the Intermec CN50 and Intermec CK71 rugged mobile computers with the help of Scan Read Technologies to boost data capture capabilities at high stakes tournaments. As a result, they expect an excess of $3 million in savings by 2016.

Top 5 Tips for Choosing Mobile Computers
Sorting through the smart phones, PDAs and ruggedized computers available for business use is no easy task. Dozens of manufacturers offer hundreds of devices in thousands of configurations, but only one may be best suited for your particular environment and workforce.

RFID Helps Lord & Taylor Capture More Sales
Sales associates in Lord & Taylor's flagship New York Fifth Avenue store now use RFID to automatically improve display sample inventory processes and visibility, and can attribute a 4% increase in sales to more complete floor displays.

Fully Stocked Shoe Displays Let Lord & Taylor Capture More Sales
Lord & Taylor faced an all-too-common retail problem: you can’t sell what you don’t show. In the fast-changing, high-turnover arena of fashion, hot items fly off the shelves – and unless the display floor is quickly and properly stocked, the next potential sales opportunity can fly away, too.

Cloud Tools Keep Your Supply Chain Platform Finely Tuned
GT Nexus Cloud Tools enables you to manage that change and support the complex network of data which form the backbone of your supply chain. Once you are on the platform with GT Nexus, you may be receiving data from suppliers, carriers, third party logistics providers, agents and banks.

RateLinx ERP, WMS & TMS Data Collection Value Proposition
Using Software to Enhance & Improve Your Supply Chain - Supply chain efficiency has forever been a mystery that C-level executives are inundated with deciphering - Advanced tools are needed to monitor and forecast results, providing executives with actionable business intelligence to ultimately reduce supply chain expenditures.

How HP Visualizes its Supply Chain using Geographic Analytics
How can you make strategic supply chain decisions faster and more effectively? For HP, one answer lies in a technique called Geographic Analytics—the visualization of network information on a map in order to drive supply chain optimization. Flexible, transparent, and intuitive, GA has greatly enhanced HP’s toolbox for strategic assessments.

The End of the Cash Register? Urban Outfitters Will Ring You Up With Apple iPads & iPods
In a presentation on its first-ever annual analyst day today, Urban Outfitters made an announcement: The chain, CIO Calvin Hollinger said, will switch from cash registers to Apple products. "Sales people will have iPod touches," Joe Weistenthal reports, "and cash registers are being phased out in favor of iPads on a swivel."

Mobile on the Move
Starmount software solutions help retailers optimize the shopper experience, and leading retailers are using our products to bring the richness of the Web and the power of mobile into the store to enhance customer engagement and increase sales.

Next Generation Logistics, Inc. 25 Years as A Leader in TMS Technology & Supply Chain Solutions
Next Generation Logistics, Inc., (NGL) a leading provider of managed freight services, TMS software, and supply chain consulting announces achieving a quarter-century servicing the supply chain industry.

GT Nexus Selected by TOMS to Provide Cloud-based Global Sourcing & Supply Chain Control Platform
TOMS Shoes has selected GT Nexus to provide the cloud supply chain technology platform to support global sourcing and import operations at the rapidly growing footwear and eye wear company.

FORTE’s Warehouse Simulation Helps Accurately Forecast System Performance
FORTE's Warehouse Simulation creates "real" scenarios - from actual operational data and MHE parameters including conveyor systems, system data flows, WCS integration, etc.

Epicor Delivers an Entirely New Approach to Business Software
This exciting new branding reflects our commitment to our customers, our employees, and our partners. Epicor solutions liberate our customers to think about their business from a fresh perspective, to focus on core growth activities, and to be inspired by the possibilities.

Performance Testing for Mobile Applications
With a mix of users accessing your applications from a variety of mobile and PC devices, from a variety of interfaces, and across a variety of networks, how do you validate the performance of your applications?

University of Nottingham Uncovers a Revitalised Risk & Threat Management System Through HP
See the story of how HPs Security Analytics helped The University of Nottingham to gain a real understanding of the risks that this global University faces.

Defend your Business Against the Dark Art of Social Engineering
Social engineering is the art of manipulating people into taking actions that breach the best technology-based organizational defenses.

Transition to a More Efficient Enterprise Environment
Companies are facing serious external challenges while managing aging IT infrastructures and applications portfolios. To decrease costs and risks while increasing flexibility and innovation, many are turning to cloud and mobile technologies.

Next Generation Logistics “Big Enough To Serve, Small Enough To Care”
Next Generation Logistics expertise in Supply Chain Consulting, Contract Services and Software Technology allows us to understand your business processes and quickly implement realistic solutions.

E2open Releases E2 Planning & Response Version 11.2
E2open today announced the availability of E2 Planning & Response version 11.2, which includes improved “what-if” scenario and simulation capabilities, network planning visualization and analytics, and certified SAP adapters.

Software AG Cloud 101: Considerations for Enterprise IT Buyers
This white paper is presented in the context of these dynamics. By reading it, you’ll learn more about the cloud proposition and gain a business perspective of what it means to consume software in the cloud.


Featured Companies

The Gray Bear
The Gray Bear is a global leader in mobile applications, websites, and software development. With our diverse industry experience and highly skilled development team, we are able to offer tailor-made solutions. Our team delivers world-class designs and development services to…
Appcelerator
Appcelerator® offers the only platform built for a Mobile First world. The Appcelerator Platform enables enterprises to create, deliver and analyze their entire mobile application portfolio. With nearly 60,000 mobile applications deployed on over 150 million devices, the Appcelerator Platform helps enterprises…
Avetta
Avetta provides a cloud-based supply chain risk management and commercial marketplace platform. Our global solution is uniquely designed to connect the world’s leading organizations with qualified suppliers, driving sustainable growth. We build trustworthy bonds through responsive technology and human…
Autodesk
Autodesk helps people imagine, design and create a better world. Everyone—from design professionals, engineers and architects to digital artists, students and hobbyists—uses Autodesk software to unlock their creativity and solve important challenges.
Cargofy
Cargofy is the easiest and fastest way to ship anything by truck through our digital innovation and transformative solutions. We seek to replace fragmented and time- consuming processes in the trucking industry.
ConverSight
ConverSight's comprehensive platform empowers supply chain organizations to make informed and accurate decisions. Digital analytics, AI, and business insights are becoming a key differentiator in the supply chain space and disruptions are rewriting the rules of the game. With ConverSight…
SpaceX
SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its…
Catapult International
Catapult combines Air, Ocean, and Ground contracts into one simple web-based system so Operations and Sales Departments find the best carrier from Point A to Point B, keeping rates accurate and up-to-date with our dedicated Contract Management team.
RIS Retail Info Systems News
This magazine advises retailers on how to improve their business performance through the use of information technologies, thus generating greater productivity, profitability and competitive advantages. It covers current ideas on how to use technology to improve operating efficiencies and much…
Datamyne
Founded in 1992 with the aim of accurately documenting import‐export transactions in the Americas, built and maintained by an international team, Datamyne today is a top‐ranked provider in the highly competitive US market for trade data. We provide the…
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