INDUSTRY NEWS
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Ryder To Acquire Impact Fulfillment Services; Will Add Contract Packaging And Manufacturing Capabilities
Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE: R), a leader in supply chain, dedicated transportation, and fleet management solutions, announces it entered into a definitive agreement in the third quarter to acquire all of the outstanding equity of IFS Holdings, LLC, also known as Impact Fulfillment Services (IFS). IFS specializes in contract packaging, contract manufacturing, and warehousing for some of the largest and best-known consumer brands in the United States, primarily in the consumer packaged goods (CPG), retail, and healthcare industries
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Bamboo Rose Accelerates Next Generation Of Retailer And Supplier Collaboration With Supply Pilot Acquisition10/19/2023
Bamboo Rose, the leading collaborative product development, sourcing, and supply chain platform for global retailers announced today its acquisition of Supply Pilot of Nottingham, UK.
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Tiger Distribution & Logistics Transforms Its Supply Chain And Fulfillment Operations With Manhattan Scale10/19/2023
Manhattan Associates Inc. (NASDAQ: MANH) today announced that Tiger Distribution & Logistics Company Limited (TSDC) has transformed their distribution centre operations through the implementation of Manhattan SCALE, improving warehouse efficiency by 20% without increasing staffing loads
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Nulogy And Formic Partner To Empower Manufacturing Supply Chains With Automation Solutions10/18/2023
Nulogy, a leading provider of supply chain collaboration solutions, and Formic, a leading robotics company accelerating the adoption of automation across American manufacturing, today announced a strategic partnership to jointly strengthen the world's manufacturing supply chains through their respective SaaS (Software as a Service) and RaaS (Robotics as a Service) product offerings
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SSI Schaefer & ALP Galvanise Smart, Automated Logistics In SEA with New OMega Warehouse10/18/2023
SSI Schaefer, a global leader in intralogistics and automated warehouses, today announced its partnership with the Taiwan-based logistics property developer Ally Logistic Property (ALP) to deliver the core infrastructure at the heart of ALP's upcoming OMega 1 Bukit Raja — a smart warehouse with automation built in, featuring a high quality self-supported high-bay indoor racking system
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ThroughPut.AI Builds Supply Chain Decision Intelligence Solution On The Snowflake Data Cloud10/17/2023
ThroughPut Inc., the industrial AI supply chain Decision Intelligence pioneer, today announced the launch of its ThroughPut.AI Supply Chain Decision Intelligence solution, Powered by Snowflake
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.
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FEATURED PRODUCTS
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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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Using advanced speech recognition, our voice systems enable operators to speak naturally and easily to the Exacta® Synchronize™ WMS. Voice simplifies critical processes such as picking, receiving, returns, cycle counting, and replenishment. Productivity is often enhanced from 150 to 350 lines per person hour because operators have full use of their hands and eyes while picking.
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Manhattan Associates' Labor Management solution offers an advanced approach to resource allocation to help you realize the full potential of your workforce. This comprehensive and flexible solution can be configured to track all warehouse activities, providing objective performance monitoring, as well as analysis and reporting of labor activity.
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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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EASYpick® GoKarts from FKI Logistex are the ideal solution for long and unproductive walks necessary to pick low-velocity items from distant breakpack picking areas. EASYpick GoKarts streamline operations, enhance productivity, and increase accuracy by allowing batch or cluster picking of the items that traditionally slow picking processes and cause picking errors.
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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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The Everest S9000 is designed for customers who require a stainless steel, IP65/NEMA 4 sealed unit to meet the hygienic standards in food processing, healthcare, chemical and pharmaceutical industries.