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The Rise of the Stanley Cup: A Supply Chain Challenge
This week's Talking Supply Chain podcast looks at what happens when an item goes viral and how companies can safeguard their supply chains.
GXO Logistics Deploys 500 Robots for Top Sporting Goods Retailer
GXO Logistics has implemented a first-of-its-kind robotics solution for a major global sporting goods retailer in Europe.
UPS Cuts Email Response Time in Half with AI Automation
Launched last July, MeRA leverages large language models to automate responses to customer inquiries, significantly reducing agent handle time by 50 percent.
Five Innovations Shaping the Future of Last-Mile Delivery
Discover how drones, autonomous vehicles, and clean technologies are driving efficiency, reducing costs, and improving customer satisfaction.
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...
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Infor Announces Industry-Focused Supply Chain Solution
Infor SCE 10.4 Delivers Warehouse Efficiency, Improved Fulfillment Capabilities and Enhanced User Experience for Retailers and Global Industries
Conquering Costs, Complexity, and Customer Demands with Warehouse Management
Rising costs, increased complexity, and growing customer demands are all intrinsically linked challenges that manufacturers and distributors face.
Real-Time Data Drives The Future Of Retail
Companies need to understand shoppers across all touchpoints, and must embrace all digital capabilities to harness the customer data that is actionable in the moment and can help drive greater lifetime value, all vital to delivering an exceptional customer experience.
New Volume Less-Than-Truckload API Offering
Chicago-based project44 has rolled out a new volume LTL (less-than-truckload) rating API that facilitates real-time volume rate exchange between carriers and their shipper, broker, and 3PL customers.
Apple Supply Chain: It’s Going To Be Waterproof!
Consumer electronics customers all over the world have been eagerly awaiting the next range of iPhone releases, and it now seems that the names for these mobile devices, iPhone 7, iPhone Pro, and iPhone SE, have been confirmed by Apple internally.
Gaining Business Value from the Internet of Things
Organizations are beginning to realize that failing to implement a compelling IoT strategy will leave them at a major competitive disadvantage, and these companies are leveraging the cloud to ensure the scalability, flexibility, power and speed that are critical for IoT data communication.
How Digitization is Transforming Manufacturing
The infographic data is based on Digital Transformation Market Drivers survey taken by over 300 manufacturing professionals across multiple industries.
NetSuite Acquires IQity’s Cloud Business
Adding deep next generation manufacturing capabilities to NetSuite’s cloud ERP, the combination can enable modern manufacturers to transform their business and improve profits through operational efficiency.
Robots Will Shape and Alter the World We Live In
Boston Dynamics turned the spotlight to Atlas, the surprising humanoid robot that wowed the world, but this time, Google’s Atlas is better and more fit to face unpredictable terrains or attacks.
GE’s $15 Billion Digital Transformation
General Electric Co. is developing software operations in each of its business lines with the goal of building a $15 billion franchise under Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt’s plan to create a “digital industrial” company.
Jamyn Edis, Dash CEO: Why Auto Companies Can’t Make Connected Car Software
While most car manufacturers have released apps connecting vehicles and smartphones, L2’s Digital IQ Index: Auto finds that they’re often short on basic functionalities.
Connected Car Forecast: Global Connected Car Market to Grow Threefold Within Five Years
Fuelled in part by growth in the deployment of smartphone integration systems, SBD predicts in-car infotainment services, such as news, weather, social networking and music streaming, will be very popular, supported by 32.1 million cars sold in 2018.
Apple vs. The FBI: What You Should Be Asking
Could the justice department be using this case about hacking into an iPhone so the majority of the people will be sympathetic to its cause about taking another shot at breaking encryption technology?
Manufacturers Unsure About Cybersecurity and R&D Tax Credits for Internet of Things Investments
The MPI Internet of Things Study, sponsored by BDO, indicates 49% of manufacturers are unsure or not confident in their ability to prevent a cybersecurity breach at their company, and 84% are not planning to take tax credits available for IoT investments.
Mobile Security: Addressing the Evolving Threat
As mobile is intrinsically woven into the fabric of enterprise, mobile security is less about protecting data and devices and more about protecting intellectual property, brand value, and customer trust.
Facebook and Twitter Announce Support for Apple in Backdoor Dispute With FBI
While the government has suggested the software tool will be used to unlock only the device in question, Apple and other technology companies believe that it sets a precedent that could lead to similar unlocking requests in the future.
China’s HNA Group Bolsters Logistics Arm with $6 Billion Ingram Micro Acquisition
Chinese logistics firm Tianjin Tianhai in one fell swoop has reshaped the technology landscape with plans to acquire Ingram Micro, the No. 1 technology distributor, for $6 billion.
Mobile Matters More For High-Tech Online Shoppers
As the pull of shopping online via mobile devices becomes ever more prevalent, recent research from transportation and logistics bellwether UPS shows that as more consumers shop online, they also bring with them specific preferences and guidelines, too.
The Hidden Costs Of Using Consumer-Grade Mobile Technology
The success of your mobility investment is in great part contingent on the devices you deploy.
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FedEx Corp. provides customers and businesses worldwide with a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce and business services. With annual revenues of $44 billion, the company offers integrated business applications through operating companies competing collectively and managed collaboratively, under the respected FedEx…
At River Logic, Our mission is to establish a new generation of planning and performance management, powered by prescriptive analytics and a next generation cloud-based user experience that excels at what-if scenario analysis.
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LoadExpress’ mission is to bring proven technologies and business models to the logistics industry that will unlock billions of cost savings and incremental revenues for 3PLs, shippers, and carriers in the $740 billion truck freight industry. Its innovations will also increase…
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.
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SolidEnergy revolutionized portable energy storage with the introduction of the “anode-free” lithium metal battery in 2014. SolidEnergy’s two material platforms, dual-layer electrolyte and ultra-thin lithium metal anode, provide transformational energy density and safety across all rechargeable lithium batteries and can…
As one of the world’s largest automotive parts manufacturers, DENSO has been a leader and pioneer in manufacturing automation, including the design and manufacturing of industrial robot arms, since the 1960s. DENSO is also the world’s largest user…
By understanding the dynamics, challenges and opportunities of our client’s industries and value networks, we inform and enable their strategies to deliver improved business performance. We are a subsidiary of Imperial Holdings, a Top 40 JSE listed company that is…
Newcastle Systems is a provider of workplace mobility solutions that include a range of mobile computer carts for every mobile workstation need and a unique power pack system that enables companies to maximize workplace efficiencies with smaller investment. Newcastle Systems…
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Starbucks as an Example of the Value Chain Model
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7 Principles of Supply Chain Management Explained
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Is Apple’s Supply Chain Really the No. 1? A Case Study
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Navigating Procurement’s Digital Transformation with AI
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, the role of AI in reshaping procurement and supply chain operations is undeniable. This whitepaper by...
Unified Control System - Intelligent Warehouse Orchestration
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Korber Supply Chain’s introduction to the world of dropshipping. While dropshipping is not for every retailer or distributor, it does provide...
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