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It's in the Bag: Office Depot Slashes Cost and Waste With Plastic Totes

December 27, 2012

For smaller items delivered to most of its business customers, the company has replaced corrugated cardboard boxes with returnable plastic totes and paper bags. The experiment has yielded big benefits in less than a year.

TradeCard Launches Cloud-Based Management Platform for Suppliers

December 26, 2012

TradeCard Inc.

TradeCard Inc., provider of a software platform for supply-chain collaboration and global trade, has launched a new product known as Trade Xpress.

Pfizer Delivers Total Logistics, Visibility and Control

December 26, 2012

SupplyChainBrain

Global logistics and transportation operations are staggeringly complicated at a giant like Pfizer. The company and its many partners needed access to everybody's information in real time.

Report from APICS 2012

December 19, 2012

Abe Eshkenazi, CEO, APICS

UPS Takes to the Cloud

December 19, 2012

SupplyChainBrain

Tom Boike, vice president of supplier management with UPS, details UPS's journey toward the adoption of cloud technology, and what it means for users of international logistics services.

Coping With Complexity in the Service Parts Supply Chain

December 18, 2012

SupplyChainBrain

A company can live or die by the effectiveness of its service parts supply chain. Yet the requirements for managing that function can be brutally complex. John Reichert, WMS product marketing manager with TECSYS, provides a blueprint for the proper management of service parts.

Honeywell Sets Its Sights on Acquiring Intermec

December 18, 2012

RFID Journal

Technology giant Honeywell has announced plans to acquire RFID and automation-identification equipment technology company Intermec by June 2013.

More Visions of the Future from the San Francisco Roundtable

December 17, 2012

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Here are five more predictions for 2013 and beyond, from a panel of five well-informed (and well-fed) Silicon Valley business executives. (See my previous post for the first five.) Assembled in Santa Clara, Calif., by the San Francisco Roundtable of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, these individuals took part in the group's fourth annual effort to answer that age-old question: What does the future hold for supply-chain management?

More Visions of the Future from the San Francisco Roundtable

December 17, 2012

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Flextronics to Assume Control of Motorola Mobility Operations in China and Brazil

December 14, 2012

Flextronics

Flextronics will acquire Motorola Mobility's manufacturing operations in Tianjin, China, and will also assume the management and operation of its Jaguariuna, Brazil, facility. Employees and assets at both locations will transfer to Flextronics after the transaction closes.

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The latest news, analysis, services and solutions regarding warehousing and distribution systems and their impact on global supply chains. Today’s companies are moving goods across more suppliers, vendors and customers than ever before, and warehouses are critical points in the overall supply chain. New technologies in warehouse management systems (WMS), automation, robotics, RFID and order fulfillment are transforming the way companies do business — and allowing them to stay ahead of the competition in their industries. As these solutions continue to evolve, businesses are discovering new ways to increase efficiency and cut costs. Learn how companies around the world are improving supply-chain operations through their strategic use of warehousing and distribution services.