Theft of trade secrets costs jobs and the global economy billions of dollars a year, according to a report released by the Center for Responsible Enterprise and Trade (CREATe.org) - a Washington-based non-profit industry group focused on responsible business practices.

JDA Software Group Inc. has released JDA 3D, an application that provides integrated category optimization with three-dimensional virtualization, to enhance collaboration among retailers, distributors and manufacturers.

Challenge: A retailer with 4,400 independently owned and operated stores needed to optimize their distribution network, including 100 inbound source origins, 1.5 billion pounds per year shipped through 14 regional service and six consolidation centers, while maintaining 100 percent delivery within two days.

Challenge: This retailer sought a collaborative supply chain execution platform that would create more cost-effective global logistics processes. The retailer used a single agent, based in Shanghai, who needed visibility into order and supplier milestones, in-transit shipments and trade document status.

Challenge: Our client, a manufacturer and supplier of a wide range of fiber optic solutions, needed a reliable, flexible, and scalable solution to eliminate manual processes and move more material through the warehouse, while meeting the strictest of budgets.

Challenge: A major U.S. food manufacturer and distributor wanted to implement a new warehouse management system using bar code labels to track the movement of products within its warehouses and to customers. A difficult challenge for a 100,000 sq. ft. warehouse with 1,600 different products in inventory.

More than a third of U.S.-based manufacturing executives at companies with sales greater than $1bn are planning to bring back production to the United States from China or are considering it, according to a new survey by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Disk storage is a lot like closet space-you can never have enough. Nowhere is this truer than in the world of big data.

After being affected by the global economic downturn, the transportation management system (TMS) market, like many other enterprise software markets, has bounced back strongly, according to a new ARC Advisory Group study.

Korea's largest pharmaceutical company, Hanmi Pharmaceutical, is testing a radio frequency identification system at five of its wholesalers, as well as at five retailer locations throughout the nation.