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Can Apple's Supply Chain Handle the Apple Watch?

Another Apple product. Another stampede to buy it.

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University of Miami Develops Math Model to Cut Distribution Costs

The University of Miami's School of Business Administration has developed a mathematical model for price optimization and customized negotiation support.

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WAM Technologies Launches Cold-Chain Tracking Service

WAM Technologies LLC, along with its affiliate Mark-it Services (MIS), have launched a means of monitoring the status of perishable cargoes.

'Project Passport' Designed to Improve Food Packaging Compliance Communication in Supply Chain

Project Passport, launched by SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association, is intended to provide companies in the food packaging supply chain with a suite of communication tools and educational resources to help convey relevant information about their products to ensure compliance and address the concerns of consumers and customers.

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Anaren Launches Remote Temperature-Monitoring Kit for Cellular Networks

The Wireless Group of Anaren Inc. has launched a Cellular Machines product line.

Finnish Mine Uses RFID Tech to Track Workers, Trucks, Detonators

For the past five years, the Pyhäsalmi mine in central Finland has been using passive high-frequency RFID tags to record when workers enter or leave a mine shaft. Since that time, says Kimmo Luukkonen, the mine's managing director, the technology has improved management's visibility into who is underground and when, and hence has increased its safety program's efficiency and accuracy. The company plans to expand that RFID solution to monitor who carries explosive detonators into the mine.

APICS Introduces Online CPIM Exam Simulator

APICS, an association of supply-chain and operations-management professionals, has developed the APICS CPIM Exam Simulator.

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How Do You Keep Your Lean Program Going?

Once you have your lean journey underway, how do you sustain it? How do you build it into the bricks and mortar, and the DNA, of the organization? We no longer want lean to be its own thing; we want it integrated into the organization.

Vast Majority of U.S. Imports Not Inspected for Consumer Safety

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which regulates 10,000 products ranging from apparel to household appliances, inspects less than 1 percent of imports under its jurisdiction. With the odds stacked against being detected, cost-cutting foreign manufacturers continue to supply dangerous goods to U.S. retailers.

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DB Schenker Teams With TÜV Rheinland on Transit Damage Detector

DB Schenker has partnered with TÜV Rheinland, a solar industry testing company, to develop a new system for detecting transit damage sustained by photovoltaic modules.

Tecsys Issues Visual Metrics Performance Measurement Suite

Tecsys Inc. has introduced Visual Metrics Performance Measurement Suite, a tool that provides performance analytics and dashboards for the organization's entire supply chain.

Barcoding, Inc. Launches Supply-Chain Architecture Practice

Barcoding Inc. has launched Supply Chain Architecture by Barcoding, a dedicated practice for the identification, formulation and management of "perfect order" fulfillment processes.

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