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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

Should Wall Street Care About Your Master Data Management Strategy?
In business our mission is to leverage our assets to the benefit of both our shareholders and stakeholders, yet is today’s standard practice of merely maintaining master data across our various and disconnected transactional systems achieving this mission?

FCC Reportedly Blocking Comcast’s Bid To Take Over Time Warner Cable
FCC staffers are not convinced the merger is in the public interest, and they are recommending that the case be heard by an administrative law judge.

Five Signs You Need A New and Better B2B Integration Solution
To succeed in today’s world, you need strong relationships with suppliers, vendors, and customers, and that relies on B2B integration solutions that efficiently, reliably, and securely share data among your trading partners.

How Switching Your Value-Added Network (VAN) Can Payoff Beyond Just Price
VAN technology was introduced to help companies better manage their supply chain through electronic exchange of documents such as purchase orders, advance ship notices and invoices.

MIT Media Lab Researchers Develop New Wearable Fingernail Trackpad
Unobtrusive wearable sensor could operate digital devices or augment other device interfaces.

The Low-Tech Anti-Drone Technology at The 2015 Boston Marathon
This is not an advanced radar or early-warning detection system - the company’s system simply compares sounds it hears to a database of drone sounds - when there’s a match, the system sends out an alert via text message or email.

50 Years On, Moore’s Law and The Future of Technology - Will It Soon Cease To Exist?
The Moore's Law theorem led to the widespread adoption of computers and smartphones, but there are tell-tale signs that it is becoming outdated and could cease to hold within the decade.

Internet of Things Will Deliver $1.9 Trillion Boost to Supply Chain & Logistics Operations
A new Trend Report published by DHL and Cisco Consulting Services concludes that the ‘Internet of Things’ offers “huge potential for more efficient and transparent supply chains”.

3 Ways the IoT Will Transform Manufacturing Processes
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to connect all sorts of stuff to the Internet, from fridges and thermostats to factory equipment and wind turbines. And the big data those things produce promise to deliver new insights and cost reductions across the entire business ecosystem.

Helping Organizations Manage and Govern Complex Data Flows between Business Partners
Axway B2Bi provides organizations with new compliance, interoperability, business continuity and auditing capabilities.

Utilizing Transportation Optimization to Design a Smarter Supply Chain
LLamasoft’s Rebecca Koke drops by the LeanLogistics blog to discuss the importance of optimization in creating a transportation strategy

Enterprise Supply Chain Orchestration Solutions Powered by the Internet of Things
Extends investment in real-time sensors to provide more value to customers' Supply Chain systems.

The Rise of Machine Data: Are you Prepared?
Take action in the Internet of Things through data-in-motion analytics - Emerging big data technologies enable a new generation of applications designed to analyze large volumes of multistructured, often-inmotion machine data to gain insights.

IBM Gambles $3 Billion on the ‘Internet of Things’
Building Cloud-based Open Platform for Industries to Leverage IoT Data New IBM IoT Cloud Services to Drive Insights into Business Operations More than 2,000 IBM Consultants, Researchers and Developers to Help Enterprise Clients Reveal New Insights.

The Global Tech Market Outlook For 2015 To 2016
As CIOs transition from 2014 to 2015 and start to look ahead to 2016, five key themes in this global tech market forecast provide reference points for their tech budget plans.

FusionOps Raises $12M to Help Analyze Supply Chain Performance from The Cloud
New Enterprise Associates has led a $12 million round in FusionOps Inc., a 10 year old software company that is taking supply chain software to the cloud.

Industry’s First Voice Directed Vertical Storage Units for Picking Automation
Numina Group's RDS Voice is an integral component of the vertical storage inventory management and control software increasing the speed and accuracy of e-commerce and order fulfillment picking.

Building Better Wholesale Supply Chains
With a transportation management solution in place wholesalers and distributors are able to increase the efficiency of their facilities.

Building Better Manufacturing Supply Chains
Rising fuel costs, customer demands, and ever-tightening carrier capacity make it imperative to implement rigorous transportation cost management.

Building Better Canadian Supply Chains
The transportation and logistics sector is itself a critical part of Canada’s economic base, accounting for nearly $66 billion in gross domestic product.


Featured Companies

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.
Dyn
Dyn is a cloud-based Internet Performance Management (IPM) company that provides unrivaled visibility and control into cloud and public Internet resources. Dyn’s platform monitors, controls and optimizes applications and infrastructure through Data, Analytics, and Traffic Steering, ensuring traffic gets…
Directworks
Global manufacturers strive to select the right suppliers for the direct materials that they use to build their products.  We provide manufacturers with a powerful solution to engage suppliers, securely share and collaborate on product design documents, more efficiently…
Opticon
Opticon is a worldwide family of companies consisting of OPTO Electronics (Japan), Opticon Inc. (North America) located in Renton, Washington, and Opticon Sensors Europe BV (Netherlands). Founded in 1976, the company has a proud tradition of developing and manufacturing world-class 1D…
WorkHound
WorkHound started with the mission “people should love the work they do”. We’ve grown from an idea to providing a voice for thousands of drivers at trucking companies across the US. Since our launch, we’ve helped drivers and…
ABB Robotics
ABB robots enable customers to implement efficient manufacturing systems that sustainably produce high-quality products. The company’s range of products and solutions for lean manufacturing cover the range from body-in-white to the final assembly of complete car bodies. They improve…
Association for Advancing Automation
The Association for Advancing Automation is the global advocate for the benefits of automating. A3 promotes automation technologies and ideas that transform the way business is done. A3 is the umbrella group for Robotic Industries Association (RIA), AIA - Advancing…
3PL Central
3PL Central helps 3PLs evolve their businesses with cloud-based WMS solutions so they can serve customers better, operate more efficiently and grow faster. 3PL Central is the leader in cloud-based warehouse management system (WMS) solutions built to meet the unique…
Robotics Virtual Organization
An American robotics network is being launched. The network is termed the Robotics Virtual Organization (Robotics VO). The formation of the network is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, but has to be self-sufficient by the end of the first…
Modulo
Modulo is the leading global provider of Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC) and Smart Government solutions. Over 1,000 customers globally leverage Modulo to monitor IT risk through automated workflow; report compliance against industry regulations, standards, and policies; prioritize operational risk…
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