Gleason Research Associates blends its proprietary software with the mobile computers of Intermec to help the U.S. Army track and audit everything from desks to tanks. Efficiency soars, and errors plummet.

The Medical University of South Carolina, in a bid to slash more than $64m from its budget, embraces procurement automation. In the process, the facility goes from survival mode to ranking among the nation's top medical centers.

"Frankly, we thought we were a lot better than we were." Could those be the scariest words in business?

Carrier Transicold has developed a new container atmosphere-control system, dubbed XtendFRESH.

Basware has joined with MasterCard to develop an electronic-payment application which speeds up payment to suppliers upon invoice approval, while extending payment terms for buyers.

Widely divergent lifecycles for electronics products are creating increasing demand for obsolete and end-of-life components, which sometimes end up being sourced from the gray market. Let's look in detail why that is happening and how product lifecycles are creating a gap in the electronic components supply chain that is in danger of being filled by counterfeit components.