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How Supply Chain Visibility Can Yield Results
Challenge: A company looked to identify major cost components associated with a supplier's product pricing. Partnering with its integrated supply chain solutions provider on visibility initiatives, the company collaborated with the supplier and determined that products were shipping from forward storage warehouse locations. The company had no visibility to these underlying logistics costs nor were the warehouse locations optimal for its network. Items were also produced in multiple locations with many inter-plant transfers occurring in the supplier’s network.
The Future of Retail: 2017 Edition
What will the retail landscape look like in the very near future? And which players will be left standing?
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A Five-Way Partnership Develops a New Way to Track High-Value Shipments
Honeywell and Intel join in developing the technology for a new visibility and reporting platform that promises to provide close, real-time monitoring of goods in transit, aided by DHL, Kuehne & Nagel and Expeditors.
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Refashion Fast-Moving Global Supply Chain
Challenge: This retail company's warehouse stock was rising as stores shifted risk further up the supply chain. The retailer needed to reduce inventory levels and production lead times to better respond to rapidly shifting consumer demand.
Most Manufacturers Will Use RTLS, RFID or Barcode Tracking by 2022, Study Says
Industrial Internet of Things technology use - including radio frequency identification or real-time location-based systems (RTLS) - is expected to grow beyond the halfway point throughout the next five years, according to a study conducted by technology company Zebra Technologies.
100 Great Supply Chain Partners: When Reliability Really Counts
The case studies we've picked for this year's 100 Great Supply Chain Partners list illustrate again and again how careful vetting leads to links with people you can truly rely on.
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For Supply Chain Security, Retailer Looks to Freight Payment
Challenge: As with all companies, fraud and information security were top of mind for this major national retailer. To protect its strategic and competitive advantages – and those of its partners – the retailer needed a payment solution that could also safeguard its supply chain.
New Zealand Farm Cuts Water and Energy Consumption With IoT
New Zealand agriculture technology company WaterForce is providing an Internet of Things-based water-management and irrigation system for New Zealand farms using sensor technology and software from Schneider Electric, built on a Microsoft Azure and Azure IoT technology platform. The technology, adopted this year by BlackHills Farm, has reduced water consumption by 30 percent, according to Schneider Electric.
A Five-Way Partnership Develops a New Way to Track High-Value Shipments
Honeywell and Intel join in developing the technology for a new visibility and reporting platform that promises to provide close, real-time monitoring of goods in transit, aided by DHL, Kuehne & Nagel and Expeditors.
Blockchain Company Launches Digital Currency to Reduce Cargo No-Shows
Hong Kong-based company 300cubits is aiming to partially replace U.S. dollars in the container shipping industry with tokens soon to be launched on Ethereum - an open-source, public, blockchain-based platform.
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How Smaller Traders Are Surviving in the Trade-Financing Game
It's a classic chicken-and-egg dilemma. Small and medium-sized companies can't get access to the trade financing they need in order to grow - because they're small.
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Supply Chain Scandals Are Preventable. Here's How.
There are countless ways in which a supply chain can go wrong. And most of the time, the culprit is poor risk management.
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