INDUSTRY NEWS
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Pure Strategies Launches The Pure Supply™ Platform, Empowering Companies To Effectively Manage Supply Chain Impacts
Pure Strategies, a sustainability consulting firm working with brands and retailers to realize meaningful environmental and social improvement, is launching Pure Supply™, a new platform that provides a way to engage, educate, and execute solutions in the supply chain, empowering suppliers with clear information, guidance, and support for reaching renewable energy and climate targets
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Honda Selects BuyCo And FourKites To Digitize And Drive Efficiency In Its End-To-End International Shipping Operations6/26/2024
Honda’s divisions of Motorcycle and Power Products Operations has strategically selected BuyCo and leading real-time supply chain visibility provider FourKites to streamline their container shipping operations
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JFrog To Acquire Qwak AI To Streamline AI Models From Development To Production6/25/2024
JFrog Ltd., the Liquid Software company and creators of the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform that offers DevOps and DevSecOps solutions, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Qwak AI Ltd., creators of the AI and MLOps platform
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TrusTrace Unveils Upgraded Forced Labor Prevention Solution To Enable Proactive Compliance For Fashion And Textile Supply Chains6/25/2024
TrusTrace, a global SaaS company with a market-leading platform for product traceability and supply chain compliance in fashion and retail, today announced the launch of its upgraded AI-powered Forced Labor Prevention (FLP) Solution, which will help brands proactively map out supply chains, screen it for risk, and efficiently gather evidence for regulatory compliance
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Westlake Global Compounds Selects FourKites For Real-Time Supply Chain Visibility And Analytics To Enhance Customer Satisfaction6/20/2024
Westlake Global Compounds announced a significant enhancement to its logistics and customer service offerings: real-time shipment tracking in collaboration with leading supply chain visibility platform FourKites
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Ryder Recognized Among Supply & Demand Chain Executive's 'Top Supply Chain Projects'6/18/2024
Ryder System, Inc., a leader in supply chain, dedicated transportation, and fleet management solutions, has earned Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s ‘Top Supply Chain Projects’ award for 2024.
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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In response to market demand for configurable, low-risk supply chain execution solutions, Optum has developed a series of solution sets that address the types of critical business problems frequently encountered within supply chain execution environments. Solution sets are designed to enable supply network communication, coordinate business processes and services, and optimize multi-tier supply chain communication and activities, driving rapid time-to-value.
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Domino ISG provides real-time traffic control that eliminates the delays, errors, and omissions of manual tracking. Asset tracking systems automatically monitors movements at portals, entry points and racks as assets move throughout the facility.
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The Cisco® Wireless Location Appliance is the industry’s first location solution that simultaneously tracks thousands of devices from directly within the WLAN infrastructure — bringing the power of a cost effective, high-resolution location solution to critical applications such as high-value asset tracking, IT management, location based security, and business policy enforcement.
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Microsoft Business Solutions for Manufacturing gives your mid-size business the same kind information-leveraging power that has been available only to large manufacturing organizations. It's comprised of integrated and highly customizable systems that save time and money through every phase of your business – from e-commerce to accounting, from suppliers to customers.
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Made2Manage Supply Chain Management (M2M SCM) software applications synchronize the demand for your product with your production capabilities so you can optimize resource usage and maximize overall operational throughput.
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AP MIMS offers real-time tracking of packages and drivers from pick-up, warehousing and customer delivery. With built in scanning, printing, GPS tracking, and signature capture, you can quickly access accurate information related to your entire proof of delivery process.
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The Brother PT-9700PC and PT-9800PCN Desktop Barcode and Label Printers produce high-quality laminated labels suitable for harsh environment applications. With resolutions up to 360 x 720 dpi and a maximum print speed of 3.15 ips, the PT-9700PC and PT-9800PCN can be configured to print on demand, laminated labels that will fit many vertical market applications.