DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight unit within Deutsche Post DHL, has broken ground on a $35m facility at O'Hare International Airport, which will include 53,000 square feet of office space and 423,030 square feet of warehousing, and is expected to be the largest DHL Global Forwarding building in the U.S.

After two years of trialing and then deploying an inventory-tracking RFID system for a large European apparel retailer, sister companies IER and SDV are now marketing a solution based on that deployment. The offering, known as iD by SDV, combines SDV's software and logistics services with IER's RFID tags and readers, enabling users to track goods from the point of manufacture to the point of sale.

Nick Banich, business development manager-USA with Miebach Consulting Inc., tells why it's vital for companies to adopt a long-term approach to business planning -- and offers advice on how to do it.

PTC has developed a tool for complying with new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules on identifying the presence of conflict minerals in high-tech products and supply chains.

Cold Chain Technologies, a provider of thermal packaging, has introduced four product families under the brands of KoolTemp GTS Express, Excel, Extreme and Evolution.

Accellos Inc. has acquired PROFITsystems, a provider of hosted software for small and medium-sized home-goods retailers.

Datalogic ADC, a vendor of automatic data capture and imaging technologies, has added the PowerScan PBT9500 imager to its PowerScan 9500 family of products.