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Why Aren't Suppliers More Concerned About Food Safety?
On average, $10m is the cost of a recall on a food company. Add this to the fact that recalls have been doubling every year from the 2002-2014 period in the United States, and it should worry any stakeholder in the manufacturing and processing facilities. Yet many of them are surprisingly optimistic about the chance of a recall affecting business, and it's their belief of invincibility that leaves them unprepared to weather a storm when one blows up. When manufacturers take a risk on their customers' health, they take a risk on their business’s health.
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Inttra Unveils Dashboards to Measure Shipment Reliability, Booking Speed
Inttra, an ocean-shipping electronic marketplace, has introduced Inttra Marketplace Decision Support.
The 'Ticking Time Bomb' of Multichannel Retailing
Tom Enright, research director with Gartner, talks about his recently completed survey on the challenges that are confronting multichannel retailers today, with a particular focus on the issue of returns. He offers his view on what constitutes excellence in the returns process.
Moving From a Supply Chain to a Supply Web
It's time to stop thinking of your supply chain as an endless stream of entities, all nicely linked together; it is much more complex than that.
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DuPont Reportedly Scores Highest Among Chemical Companies Striving to Lower Carbon Footprint
DuPont leads the chemical industry in preparing for a low-carbon economy, according to CDP's latest quarterly sector research report.
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How Health and Safety Cuts in UK Could Affect Rest of the World
The British Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are putting in motion plans that will change Britain's role in world manufacturing, for better or for worse. In its annual report, HSE proudly announced that they had removed 84 per cent of their regulations without compromising on safety. Depending on how you interpret the statistics, this has either made the UK a much stronger player in international trade or has taken the UK two steps backwards.
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PhoenixNAP Offers New Series of Backup, Recovery Services
PhoenixNAP, a global information-technology services provider offering cloud, dedicated server, co-location and infrastructure-as-a-service technology, has developed a new series of backup and recovery services.
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Legacy Supply Chain Services Issues Grader Tool
Legacy Supply Chain Services, a North American third-party logistics provider, has released a grader tool designed to help retailers evaluate their supply-chain performance, and identify opportunities for improvement.
Procurement Reduces Costs to Deliver Services 17 Percent by Enhancing Customer Focus, Study Says
World-class procurement organizations now deliver services at 17 percent less cost than typical companies while offering improved effectiveness, largely by becoming more customer-centric, according to research from The Hackett Group Inc.
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Allergan: A Company of Many Identities Seeks One Road to Demand Planning
Having undergone a raft of acquisitions and name changes over the years, the pharmaceutical giant formerly known as Actavis scraps its legacy manual processes and embraces formal demand-planning and advanced-scheduling technology.
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Tradeshift Partners With EcoVadis on Supplier Sustainability
Tradeshift, provider of a supplier-collaboration platform, has partnered with EcoVadis, creator of a collaborative platform for assigning supplier sustainability ratings in global supply chains.
Businesses Must Transform to Succeed, and IT Is Critical to Making That Change
To build advantage, organizations must do more than just change. They must transform. As technology's role in business becomes ever more important, transformations will increasingly be underpinned by significant technology programs. In such technology-enabled transformations, IT leaders need two different strategies to ensure success.
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