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When Simplification Is the Answer to Complexity
With a huge aircraft orderbook to satisfy, Airbus searches for a way to manage the quality and reliability of its massive army of suppliers, and spot potential problems before they disrupt the supply chain. The solution: a digital control room.
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CSCMP's S.F. Roundtable Takes Another Shot at Divining the Future
With 2016 coming to a close, it's time for another helping of supply-chain predictions for the year ahead, courtesy of the San Francisco Roundtable of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals.
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New Trading Platform Sources Legal and Certified Timber
A new trading platform to assist buyers of timber in sourcing legal or certified products from all over the world has been launched. BVRio Environmental Exchange has announced its responsible timber exchange index to facilitate the screening of timber products and their supply chains.
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Shipping Industry Groups Launch Free Ship Efficiency Portal
At the World Ocean Council's Sustainable Ocean Summit, Carbon War Room, exactEarth and University Maritime Advisory Service (UMAS) launched BetterFleet, a free-to-access ship operational efficiency portal on ShippingEfficiency.org.
Beyond Black Friday: New Challenges for Holiday Retailers
This year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday were bigger than ever. But the numbers could be concealing an underlying trend away from those key dates in the retail calendar.
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Wal-Mart Tackles Food Safety With Trial of Blockchain
If you shop at Wal-Mart, you might be buying packaged produce unlike any ever sold in a U.S. store. The sliced apples or cut broccoli - the merchant won't say what's involved exactly - are being used to test blockchain, a new database technology. If successful, the trial could change how Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which serves some 260 million customers a week, monitors food and takes action when something goes wrong. That could spur big leaps in food safety, cut costs and save lives.
Supply Chain Visibility Company MacroPoint Announces $44M Investment
MacroPoint, creator of a multimodal freight tracking network that provides shippers, logistics service providers and carriers real-time visibility into load status, has received a $44m investment from Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLC (SGE). The company says it plans to accelerate investment in product and network expansion, both in the U.S. and internationally.
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Tire Industry Works Toward Global RFID Tagging Standards
A tire-industry working group led by Chinese rubber manufacturing equipment company Mesnac is striving to standardize the way in which the industry uses radio frequency identification tags. This includes how those tags are attached in tires, as well as how they are tested and encoded with data.
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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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River Island to Deploy RFID Across 280 Stores
Fashion retailer River Island is rolling out a radio frequency identification tool at all 280 of the stores it owns and operates. The retailer says it will track all of the garments it sells in the stores, which are located in United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium, using tags applied by suppliers.
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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