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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. Opportunities for manufacturing Walmart is not the only retailer that requires RFID – and you can expect many to follow suit. Walmart’s RFID journey Walmart announced in 2003 that its top 100 suppliers must tag their pallets and cases starting by 2005.

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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. Opportunities for manufacturing. As more follow in Walmart’s footsteps, we predict retailers purchasing your manufactured goods will also start asking for RFID-labeled items. 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. Supplier reliability and the bi-directional flow of data at the speed of business improve agility and decreases the issues with having the wrong inventory or aligning transportation inbound logistics with manufacturing scheduling. It is a messy market.

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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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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

Approximately 60 percent of today's unfilled manufacturing jobs are due to a shortage of applicants with sufficient proficiency in science, technology, engineering, and math ( STEM ) skills. IMPO Executive Editor, Anna Wells provides insights into the complicated issue in her article “Why The Manufacturing Skills Gap Is Serious”.

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Digital Twins and Phygital Fitness

Enterra Insights

This technology took a step further in 2002 when Michael Grieves publicly introduced the concept and model of the digital twin at a Society of Manufacturing Engineers conference in Troy, Michigan. ” Today’s business world moves at computer speed — and that presents a decision-making challenge.

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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