INDUSTRY NEWS
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ActiveState Strengthens Open Source Supply Chain Security By Offering Its Market-Leading Artifact Repository At No Cost
Today, ActiveState announced that it is now offering the ActiveState Artifact Repository free of charge in all tiers of the ActiveState Platform (including its popular Free Tier) for a limited time
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Graphex Technologies Enters Into MOU With Reforme Group Pty Ltd To Develop Graphite Manufacturing Facilities In Australia For Mine-To-Battery Graphite Supply To The EV Industry12/29/2022
Graphex Technologies, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Graphex Group Limited (collectively “Graphex”) and a global leader in mid-stream processing of natural graphite for use in lithium-ion (Li-ion) power batteries, announced today that it has entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with Reforme Group Pty Ltd (“Reforme”), a private mining and development group involved in developing processing, to create a strategic alliance joint venture (JV) to
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o9 Solutions And Project44 Accelerate Their Partnership To Support Enterprises With Enhanced End-To-End Supply Chain Planning12/19/2022
o9 Solutions, a leading enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, announced today that it is strengthening its partnership with project44, a leader in supply chain and logistics visibility, by providing an integrated, joint offering that enables enterprises to improve revenue and costs, enhance future planning and make more informed decisions across their end-to-end supply chain
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McDonald's & U.S. Logistics Partners Tackle Supply Chain Emissions In New Enel Solar Energy Deal12/15/2022
McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) and all five members of the restaurant chain's North American Logistics Council (NALC) – Armada, Earp Distribution, Martin Brower, Mile Hi Foods and The Anderson-DuBose Company – have signed agreements with Enel North America1 to purchase renewable energy and the associated renewable energy certificates (RECs) from Enel Green Power's Blue Jay solar project in Grimes County, Texas.
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BW Retail Scales Ecommerce Fulfillment With Descartes’ Ecommerce Warehouse And Shipping Solution12/14/2022
Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq: DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that Michigan-based BW Retail, a leading ecommerce marketing, fulfillment and data analytics service provider, replaced manual pick, pack and ship practices with Descartes’ integrated ecommerce warehouse management and shipping solution to efficiently scale fulfillment operations and improve customer satisfaction.
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Global Logistics Technology Company Tag-N-Trac Launches End-To-End Supply Chain Intelligence Platform12/14/2022
Tag-N-Trac Inc., the company building the only full stack IoT solution for supply chain management, today announced the RELATIVITY(Real Time Visibility and Traceability) platfor
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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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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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Macola ES is the only ERP solution designed for the mid-market with native Business Process Management (BPM) capabilities, including powerful exception management tools. It's a state-of-the-art ERP solution that truly helps manage and unify the entire enterprise. Using Macola ES, processes and exceptions are defined by management, automated, and used to enable far more consistent and efficient execution of business policies. With Macola ES, most customers find that they improve their revenue per employee ratio while delivering higher levels of customer service and accuracy.
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Push-Button Labeling is a simple-to-use hardware/software solution that combines patented wireless technology with intelligent software to control and error-proof the processes of label set-up, label printing, and label application.
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Many companies around the world use J.D. Edwards' integrated Logistics Management solutions to improve the visibility and velocity of the flow of materials.