Is the reshoring trend for real?

Despite all of the news about Amazon's latest forays into home delivery, that service market really is not a new story at all. The real point is to do it well"” and do it profitably.

The wireless telecommunications business is, to put it mildly, competitive.

Descartes Systems Group is offering a new optimization application to help retailers and distributors make deliveries on the same day that an order is taken.

JDA Software Group Inc. has set Dec. 26, 2013 as the release date for JDA In-Store Picking, the vendor's application to allow retailers to pick electronic-commerce orders in a store.

Lufthansa Cargo is moving closer to the goal of completely paperless air-freight documentation.

Foxfire, a vendor of warehouse-management system (WMS) software, has made available Foxfire Inventory Pro.

Will Benton, chief executive officer with GAINSystems Inc., defines the term "optimization" as it relates to inventory management, and shows how companies can reap big benefits from applying the concept to their operations.