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RFID in the Supply Chain: Fizzling Technology or the Future of Effective SCM?

GlobalTranz

In 2003, Walmart announced that all of its suppliers would need to have Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on all pallets and cases by 2006. Historically, the cost of RFID implementation and difficulty to utilize RFID in conjunction with other supply chain systems has hindered mass adoption by supply chain managers.

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Prepping Omnichannel Retail Supply Chain Processes to Succeed In Peaks

Veridian Solutions

To stay successful, supply chain leaders need to understand a few things about preparing omnichannel retail supply chain processes to succeed in peak season. Challenges in Omnichannel Retail Peak Season. Omnichannel Retail Supply Chain Processes Depend on Integration and Data.

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Coronavirus Increases Supply Chain Risk Management Priority

Enterra Insights

For years I’ve been writing about the importance of supply chain risk management and how it’s often given short shrift in business discussions. Supply chain vulnerability shouldn’t have been hard to spot. Today, ears are no longer deaf to the topic of supply chain risk management.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 29 – October 3, 2014)

Talking Logistics

One of the early pioneers of software-as-a-service (SaaS) transportation management systems (TMS) was Nistevo, which was acquired by Sterling Commerce in May 2006 (Sterling Commerce had become an AT&T company in late 2005). North American Freight Numbers July 2014.

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The Amazon Effect is the New Walmart Effect!

Supply Chain Game Changer

He fashioned that changing tide into a business plan that has been breaking barriers across supply chain and e-commerce that has left an indelible mark. Following the 2006 book by Charles Fisherman called “The Walmart Effect,” the Amazon Effect is a story of an Entrepreneur and his execution of an idea.