Food & Beverage

Collaborative Transportation Management Leads To Significant Freight Bill Savings

May 11, 2012

Challenge: A leading producer, marketer and distributor of high-quality branded food products needs control, scalability and visibility to better manage and measure transportation execution management.

Leading Food Company Achieves Savings By Leveraging Managed Transportation Services

May 11, 2012

Challenge: A leading supplier and solutions provider to food service, in-store bakery, and retail marketplaces needs centralized control, scalability and visibility into process to better manage and measure transportation execution management.

Many IT Professionals' Networks Aren't Ready for Cloud Migration, Study Finds

May 10, 2012

Cisco

As the role of cloud computing is growing significantly in its ability to deliver business applications, many IT decision makers are facing challenges with their existing network infrastructure to support the migration of their business applications to the cloud.

Fleet Industry Has Technology Gap, Study Indicates

May 10, 2012

ARI

An overwhelming majority (86 percent) of fleet professionals said at least half of their fleet processes could be made more efficient through technology, but less than half (44 percent) said they will invest in new technologies in the coming year, according to a survey released by ARI, a global fleet services provider. This gap points to a need for technology implementation across the industry as a means of increasing efficiency and decreasing costs.

Unchaining the Value of RFID for Unmatched Flexibility and Fast ROI

May 10, 2012

Barcoding, Inc., Zebra Technologies & Motorola Solutions

Asset tracking is one of the leading RFID applications. This is because the process improvement delivers some of the clearest benefits and fastest ROI.

Idle Container Ship Capacity Falls by a Third

May 9, 2012

JOC Sailings

Container lines have started reactivating their idle container fleets for the summer peak shipping season, which has resulted in a decline of almost a third in idle container ship capacity, according to Alphaliner.

Relationship with McLane to Enable Family Dollar to Expand Offerings at Stores

May 9, 2012

Family Dollar

Family Dollar Stores Inc. has entered into a strategic partnership with McLane, a major provider of grocery and food service supply chain solutions. Beginning in September, this partnership will enable Family Dollar to offer customers a broader selection of merchandise, including refrigerated and frozen food, across the retailer's more than 7,200 locations in 45 states.

Leading Luxury Global Retailer: First-Class Import Trade Compliance

May 9, 2012

Challenge: A leading luxury global retailer to the traveling public needed up-to-the-minute Global Trade Content for their Classification (HTS/HS) codes to ensure compliance for duty, taxes and fees. They preferred an on-line solution supported and integrated with daily updated content rather than installed software, and did not want to have to buy hardware or hire trained personnel to complete the task of maintaining content and working through manual databases/processes.

President Seeks to Boost Trade Through International Regulatory Cooperation

May 8, 2012

Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A.

President Obama issued May 1 an executive order that aims to foster international trade by promoting greater cooperation with other countries on the development and implementation of regulations that affect global commerce. The order notes that foreign regulatory approaches may differ from those taken by U.S. agencies and that in some cases the differences might be unnecessary and impair the ability of U.S. businesses to export and compete internationally.

The Smart Machine - A Win-Win Proposition

May 8, 2012

Manish Grover, Program Director, Enterprise Solutions and Consulting Group, Mind

The days when it was considered cool to wave your credit card to make payments are history. What's cool now is when a consumer at a ball game waves her hand in front of a vending machine, and the machine not only dispenses her favorite drink but also sends her a mobile coupon to share with friends because her team is ahead in the game.