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Improved Tools for Monitoring Specimens May Make RFID a Standard in Healthcare

The quality of any healthcare laboratory - whether it's servicing the biomedical, clinical trial and research, diagnostic or pharmaceutical community - depends on its ability to provide accurate, precise and timely results. In recent years, some labs say they have begun using RFID to automate manual processes to track human specimens and other samples, preventing loss and misidentification, assuring chain of custody, enabling quick retrieval when needed and facilitating compliance with government regulations.

Blount International Gets Control of Its Logistics Spend

You can't optimize your logistics network if you don't know how much you're spending on it.

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Skills Deficit Hampers IoT Growth in 2017, Research Group Warns

The allure of IoT is strong. Companies are eager to explore the potential for connected products and business processes. But technologies and use cases for the IoT vary wildly, and the vendor landscape is rapidly changing, warns research and advisory firm Forrester. Adding to the hurdles IT teams face is the demand for IoT skills - including data analytics, security and wireless networking expertise - that are already in short supply in many organizations.

Millennials Set Shipping and Delivery Bar High, Survey Says

If you think customer expectations are high overall in terms of e-commerce and direct-to-customer fulfillment, take a good look at the millennial generation. Across a number of studies you see a pattern: a keen desire for the most rapid shipping method possible; free, unlimited returns; and a greater willingness to spend a bit more to get it the same day.

Freightos Launches Freight Rate Calculator for Real-Time Market Access

Logistics technology company Freightos has announced the launch of its freight rate calculator, a tool that taps into international market rates to offer real-time FCL, LCL, air and trucking door-to-door freight estimates. The calculator is currently being launched as a public beta, Freightos says.

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Organics Raising the Steaks for Food Manufacturing

Consumer appetites for organic foods are at an all-time high. As grocery shoppers buy more goods labeled as organic, pesticide-free, non-GMO and other attributes of healthier foods, food manufacturers need to adapt to the complex challenges of the organic products supply chain.

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Sap Aims to Simplify Innovation With Update to In-Memory Database

SAP says it wants businesses struggling to keep up with the pace of innovation in its HANA in-memory database to relax as it readies a new version, HANA 2. Since introducing HANA in 2010, the supply chain software company has been releasing updates twice a year, providing customers with new capabilities but also pushing them to keep their software current to benefit from continuing support.

FootLocker, Urban Outfitters Rank Worst in E-Commerce

To uncover which retailers have the best customer experience and which are lacking, consumer-opinion analyst Aspectiva examined the reviews of over 40 of the most popular e-commerce sites. Through the use of new AI technology, Aspectiva examined over 75,000 individual reviews, averaging over 1,800 reviews per site.

Forecast Says 1.4m New Industrial Robots by 2019

The EU is frontrunner in the world's robotic race, but by 2019 China will have taken over, according to the latest forecast from the International Federation of Robots. More than 1.4 million new industrial robots will be installed in factories around the world by 2019.

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Scandit Launches Mobile Barcode Scanner With Improved Speed, Range

Scandit is launching a new version of its barcode scanner software development kit (SDK), which will allow retail, manufacturing and supply chain enterprises to replace traditional barcode scanners and mobile computers with more flexible and cost-effective mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and wearables, the barcode software company says. The result: equivalent or improved scanning performance on a smart device at a fraction of the total cost of ownership of traditional scanners.

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Carrier Transicold Says New Tool Locates Source of Temperature Abnormalities

For refrigerated haulers who require independent verification of temperatures inside trucks and trailers or immediate documentation for receivers, Carrier Transicold is offering its DataLink 2 recorder. The system, for single-temperature or multi-temperature applications, uses up to three independent temperature sensors, providing an added layer of verification beyond the refrigeration system's built-in recording ability, the refrigeration equipment company says.

SML Predicts RFID Demand, Opens 'Innovation Centers'

As the global retail market continues its march to adopt RFID, SML RFID has announced its opening of three RFID solution innovation centers, and has launched two RFID retail pop-up store demonstrations to provide information, guidance and production assistance, the RFID technology company says.

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