Brick-and-mortar retailers are sweating online competition this holiday season, perhaps more than ever. But it's all upside to UPS. The shipping giant is cashing in both on internet shopping and old-school retailers trying to mimic Amazon.com - shipping inventory around the country in an incessant supply-chain shuffling.

Retail marketers love complexity. The more variations of a product they can sell, the happier they are. How else can they command all that shelf real estate in big-box stores? How else can they promote innovation? And how else can they drive their supply-chain managers crazy?

DAP Technologies has joined with Omni-ID to launch a new series of mobile tablets which incorporate both active and passive radio frequency identification (RFID) capabilities.

Motorola Solutions had issued the latest release of Connect Plus, the vendor's two-way radio digital trunking system under the Mototrbo brand.

LLamasoft Inc., a provider of software for supply-chain design, has made a number of enhancements to its Supply Chain Guru and Transportation Guru applications.