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Walmart and the Past, Present, and Future of RFID

AB&R

This announcement followed a successful trial run with an RFID system in 2002. The pandemic accelerated the Buy Online Pick Up in Store (BOPIS) model, which accounted for $72 billion in purchases in 2020, having greater inventory accuracy grew ever more important. They will comply, shelf the project, and won’t think about it again.

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Building Value Networks. Stopping the Backward Slide.

Supply Chain Shaman

I was a Gartner analyst in the period of 2000-2002 when trading exchanges were cool. IBM purchased Sterling Commerce. GXS purchased Inovis, OpenText purchased GXS, Descartes Systems Group purchased numerous assets to form the GLN (Global Logistics Network), and TrueCommerce purchased Datalliance.

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Walmart and the Past, Present, and Future of RFID

AB&R

This announcement followed a successful trial run with an RFID system in 2002. The pandemic accelerated the Buy Online Pick Up in Store (BOPIS) model, which accounted for $72 billion in purchases in 2020, having greater inventory accuracy grew ever more important. Opportunities for manufacturing. Opportunities for distributing.

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2024 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Prediction One

Supply Chain Matters

Leaders will again be presented with an environment of uncertainty and differing economic, financial and risk based outlooks, depending on geographic region, or specific industry product demand or supply network sector. Global trade was reportedly set to contract by 5 percent in 2023 compared to 2002, amounting to upwards of $30.7

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WEG Joins the Logility Client Community

Logility

Founded in 1961, the rapidly growing company now manufactures 19 million electrical motors annually. With manufacturing units in 12 countries and present in more than 135 countries, the company has more than 37,000 employees worldwide. ATLANTA – August 18, 2022 – Logility, Inc., WEG’s net revenue reached R$ 23.6

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Snapshot of 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Part One

Supply Chain Matters

As multi-industry supply chain management teams enter 2023, they will be presented with expected global economic themes, financial outlooks and overriding business sentiment that are likely to influence decision-making. Global manufacturing activity as depicted by the J. Prediction Background. a 30-month low. Prediction Implications.

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Infor’s Acquistion of GT Nexus: If I Had a Magic Wand

Supply Chain Shaman

Founded in 2002 under the name of Agilisys, Infor rebranded in 2004. In the period of 2002-present, the company acquired/aggregated many applications. On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. The So What? It is clear.