Featured Articles
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Transform Your Forklifts: The Complete Solution For Materials Handling
9/11/2013
In today's distribution centers, forklifts are becoming sophisticated information technology hubs.
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Black Ops IT Spend - When IT Starts Being Paid Outside The CIO
8/5/2013
Retail has been abuzz about the increasing role of the CMO in the IT Spend process ever since Gartner analysts mentioned that they forecasted that the Chief Marketing Officer would control more IT spending than the Chief Information Officer by 2017.
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Turning The Smartphone Into A Powerful Tool
7/10/2013
Enabling real-time, enterprise-wide voice communication—from store floors to warehouses and DCs—doesn’t have to be a rip-and-replace proposition.
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Bar Code & RFID Label Printing: Options For Printing From SAP
7/8/2013
Generating bar code and RFID labels from the SAP environment is not always a straightforward process. The various versions and generations of SAP solutions are oriented to document printing and do not offer native support for most the specialized thermal printers used for bar code and RFID labeling. That means either the SAP solution or the printer has to be enabled to be compatible.
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Merchandise Planning & Allocation Benchmark Survey: Planning For The Future
7/1/2013
It's an exciting time for retail planning. The continued growth of the Internet and the proliferation of additional customer touch points create both new opportunities, as well as new challenges, for merchandise, channel and assortment planning. Today's Omni-channel consumer expects to seamlessly purchase the items, colors and sizes they want across every channel.
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Unlocking Hidden Cost In The Distribution Center
5/23/2013
With many businesses still feeling the effects of the recession, facing increased competition and being forced to operate on smaller and smaller profit margins, distribution managers are increasingly tasked with the seemingly impossible job of finding cost savings from existing operations. To do this, managers are learning that they have to leave no stone unturned in order to effectively evaluate current processes and technology to help identify areas for efficiency improvements.
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Direct Part Marking: More Than Just A Code On A Surface
5/23/2013
Direct Part Marking (DPM) is a process for imprinting a bar code directly on an item or surface in a permanent manner instead of printing the code on a paper label that is adhered or attached to a surface. The intent is to create a permanent identifier for the item. In most applications, 2D bar codes are used in DPM technology.
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Building A Customer-Centric Model For Retail
2/22/2013
Customer, shop, merchandise, transaction – that’s all there is to it. Shopping, in simple terms has changed little in 2,000 years. However, on closer inspection, we know that for customers, retailers and their suppliers, the shopping ‘process’ is undergoing a fundamental transformation.
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How Brick-And-Mortar Retailers Can Win The Omnichannel Battle
12/14/2012
This white paper from Motorola Solutions takes a look at the recent trend of forward-looking retailers to integrate the worlds of in-store and online shopping, communications, and sales through the use of wireless mobile technology.
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Is Android Enterprise-Ready?
11/19/2012
The ability to remotely manage an install base of devices running the Android™ OS is the foundation of Honeywell’s approach to solving the associated business concerns. Currently, there are multiple third party companies that focus on building remote management and security solutions for Android™.