INDUSTRY NEWS
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Mars And Unreasonable Group Announce Unreasonable Food™ To Transform Sustainability In The Food Supply Chain
Through its snacking division, Mars and Unreasonable Group today announced the beginning of a three-year partnership: Unreasonable Food™. Unreasonable Food seeks to become the world's premier global initiative focused on supporting rapid growth companies positioned to re-define our food systems - ensuring a more regenerative, inclusive, and equitable future of food for all
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Prysmian Digitally Transforms Warehousing Capabilities With Blue Yonder2/29/2024
Prysmian, the world leader in the energy and telecom cable industry, has successfully completed the implementation for its Canadian warehouse of Blue Yonder’s SaaS-based Warehouse Management System (WMS) to support a more sustainable and customer-oriented supply chain
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JFrog And Qwak Create Secure MLOps Workflows For Accelerating The Delivery Of AI Apps At Scale2/28/2024
JFrog Ltd. (“JFrog”), the Liquid Software company and creators of the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform, today announced a new technology integration with Qwak, a fully managed ML Platform, that brings machine learning models alongside traditional software development processes to streamline, accelerate, and scale the secure delivery of ML applications
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Grupo Merza To Enhance Supply Chain Planning With RELEX Solutions2/28/2024
Grupo Merza, a leading retailer and wholesaler in Eastern Mexico, has announced their selection of RELEX Solutions, provider of unified supply chain and retail planning solutions, to provide forecasting and replenishment capabilities.
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Eclypsium And Second Front Announce Partnership To Enhance Security In The Digital Supply Chain Of The Department Of Defense2/27/2024
Eclypsium, the leader in digital supply chain security for enterprise hardware, firmware and software infrastructure, and Second Front Systems (2F), whose mission is to accelerate delivery of emerging technology to U.S. and Allied warfighters, today announced their strategic partnership
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Michelin North America, Inc. Selects Cosmo Tech For Supply Chain Simulation2/27/2024
Cosmo Tech announces it has been selected by Michelin North America, Inc. to help improve its supply chain simulation and optimize operations
FEATURED ARTICLES
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Simplify Your IT Asset Management With A Managed Service Provider
In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, it can be difficult for organizations to create and adhere to business processes and guidelines related to their IT infrastructure. It is also becoming more challenging for organizations to make the most of their investment in IT equipment when it is not managed properly.
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Mastering Integration For Supply Chain Industries9/14/2020
Supply chain disruptions happen. From something as isolated and simple as a missed order or lost cargo to the global disruption that has been caused by COVID-19. Now that supply chains are stretched thin under the weight of the pandemic, their inherent weaknesses are showing. End-to-end visibility provided by supply chain integration is more crucial than ever if companies are to deliver the best customer experience possible, regardless of market circumstances. How can companies that want to be best equipped to face adversity and opportunity feel secure in the fact that they have mastered supply chain integration?
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Importance Of Supply Chains No Longer Taken For Granted6/15/2020
Most people seldom think about supply chains – unless they’re a part of them, such as in the IT industry where distributors, vendors and solutions providers all participate and contribute unique value. However, in recent months the awareness of and dependencies on supply chains has been a central focus worldwide.
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The 3 Keys To Developing A Sustainable Supply Chain1/6/2020
Creating sustainable supply chains is no longer a choice. It’s necessary in today’s world, where climate change, environmental disruptions, and human rights issues are real risks to smooth (and ethical) supply chain management. Waste must be reduced and, in most cases, it must be reduced significantly.
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How Defect Management Tools Improve Software Reliability11/11/2019
There is no software in the world that is 100% defect-free. Developers spend a significant amount of time tracking bugs to ensure a high-quality product. Programming bugs can be annoying and make defect management difficult across the various lines of codes. The question is, should developers spend so much time on defect management? There are tons of defect management tools out there, many of them are free of cost which mostly suits smaller teams for fixing bugs on schedule without requiring a huge investment. Larger QA teams, however, may prefer paid options since they have more robust solutions to offer.
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Performance Testing And Its Types11/7/2019
Performance testing is a type of software testing that focuses on how the system runs under certain circumstances. It determines the speed, responsiveness, and stability of a computer, network, software program or device under a workload. A performance testing company can help identify the nature or location of a software-related performance problem by highlighting where an application might fail or lag. Performance testing can also verify that a system meets the specifications claimed by its manufacturer or vendor. The process can be used to compare two or more devices or programs.
MAGAZINE ARTICLES
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Identifying New DC Operations
Omni-channel consumer demand has pushed the connection between shoppers and goods deeper into the supply chain, creating fundamental shifts in DC operations.
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Can You Meet Consumer Expectations At Any Cost?3/21/2014
There’s no prescriptive approach to establishing true, seamless, anychannel retail commerce, but experts agree on four imperatives to the equation.
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Cloud-Based Hub Simplifies Fulfillment Process For Goedeker’s3/21/2014
Increased online sales volume pushed a Midwestern appliance retailer to find a way to connect its e-commerce platform to ERP software, streamlining the ordering process and decreasing shipping times.
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Mobile 2014: Best Bets And Epic Fails In Retail Mobility2/18/2014
Mobile POS races to the bottom, customer service apps reign supreme, and BYOD begins to make perfect sense.
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Fulfillment/Order Management Solutions2/18/2014
Take a look at some of the leading companies helping retailers with fulfillment and order management in today’s rapidly changing retail environment.
SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH SUPPLEMENT
Cutting-Edge Supply Chain Strategies: Omni-Channel's Next Big Thing
Consumer expectations of a seamless omni-channel experience are reinventing the supply chain.
Communication between retailers and suppliers will look very different in the near future. In order to meet the increasing demands of the consumer, control costs, and enhance collaboration, retailers and suppliers must improve processes for sharing data and extract as much value as possible from that data. The Trading Partner Interface of the Future, as conceptualized by RVCF, will achieve these goals while strengthening relationships between retailers and suppliers. By exploring the key areas of retailer-supplier communication, this report provides insights into what such a solution would entail and the business benefits it would create. Stakeholders in technology companies should take note that it is our vision that unrestricted, synchronized data sharing is the direction of the future.
FEATURED PRODUCTS
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New, entry-level audit service enables retailers to recover lost profits, gain actionable business intelligence, and experience best-in-class vendor compliance with a very low implementation cost.
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SmartMark Durable RFID tags and labels are constructed using custom laminations, UV-stabilized plastics, impact resistant rubber, and other durable materials. They offer a long-lasting solution for hard-to-tag items and difficult applications.
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The DLI 9200 is offered with either a 12.1" or 15" industrial-rated touchscreen ensuring a perfectly sized display no matter what your application. Powered by a dual-core Atom® processor and sporting a shock-mounted HDD or blazing fast, the DLI 9200 is powerful enough to run the most demanding software.
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In today’s supply chain, the only constant is change. Disruptions, whether short-term like a forklift failure, or long-term like a natural disaster, are a fact of life. The supply chains best prepared to adapt to these disruptions will use mobile computing technology that gives them greater flexibility.
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When RFID technology is combined with well-designed business processes and intelligent application software, such as the SPEDE Material Control System, you can achieve 100% correct customer shipments. SPEDE not only provides RFID compliance labeling, but enables you to leverage your RFID investment to control and streamline internal processes.
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A transportation planning tool where TSi Logistics will manage your company's rates and optimization parameters. You will have access via the Web to the shipment planning and optimization modules so you can load (manual or electronic) your shipments and execute the optimization process.
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Designed for manufacturers and 3PL providers, the iristaWarehouse warehouse management system (WMS) tracks and controls the flow of raw materials and finished goods across production and distribution operations. Utilizing RF, bar code and Auto-ID technology the system prioritizes, directs and confirms all activities, increasing quality and accuracy, while lowering costs.