Businesses today are faced with many challenges, from economic uncertainty and complex regulations to heightened consumer expectations. With these difficulties come fierce realities for many companies, as they realize they can't afford any inefficiency in their business model. Companies mostly suffer from inadequate back office processes, with transactional areas tending to have the most inefficiencies. In response, increasing numbers of business process outsourcing vendors are offering solutions to these issues.

Stephen Cwiak, group vice president and head of subsystems at Interroll, explains how changes in picking and packaging driven by e-commerce are impacting material handling decisions.

Voice-based warehouse solutions continue to gain converts and to evolve, with the latest iterations bringing in smart phones, tablets and sensors. Jennifer Lachenman, vice president of product strategy at Lucas Systems, says these adaptations better serve a changing workforce.

Corporate criminals are using professional and systematic methods to target the weakest link for global organizations, the supply chain. High profile exploits such as Target's supply chain disaster are raising concerns across numerous verticals on business stability. With the threat of tainted and counterfeit technology products building every day, organizations must come together now and take what steps they can to mitigate risks to the supply chain.

While the mobile channel grows in importance and revenue for merchants, so does their fear of fraudulent attacks and the realization that combating that risk requires specialized tools. Those are some of the key findings from the Second Annual Mobile Payments and Fraud Survey, available for free download at the Kount Inc. website.