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MIKOH takes a 'smart and secure' approach to inventory tracking Jeff Berman, Group News Editor, 8/14/2008
A new application from MIKOH Corporation pledges to provide shippers with a packaged solution that delivers physical security and tamper evidence for inventory management and advanced RFID applications within warehouses and DCs. More
CEMA reports increase in orders for June By Staff - 08/13/2008
The conveyor association’s June 2008 index gained 51 points from May to June, but has seen a 6% decrease from last year.
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JDA set to acquire i2 Technologies Jeff Berman, Group News Editor - 08/12/2008
In another example of consolidation that has impacted the supply chain software sector in recent years, JDA Software Group Inc., a provider of demand chain technology services, announced today that it plans to acquire i2 Technologies, a supply chain management software and services company, for approximately $346 million.
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System Report: Controlled complexity is cool at Polaris By Tom Andel, Editor in Chief - 08/01/2008
The Polaris supply chain network includes product development, manufacturing and distribution facilities—located in five different places. Intricate? Yes, but there’s beauty in how the production cycles synchronize. There is complexity in what Polaris does, but it’s not associated with unique parts. It’s the volume of parts that creates the distribution challenge.
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System report: Polaris production network makes fun By Tom Andel, Editor in Chief - 08/01/2008
Polaris designs, engineers, manufactures and markets all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), including the Polaris Ranger RZR and Victory motorcycles for recreational and utility use. These products are sold through a network of approximately 1,600 independent dealers in North America, and through six subsidiaries and 43 distributors in approximately 130 countries outside North America.
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Foodservice distributors turn to voice-directed picking By Staff - 08/01/2008
Performance Food Group, the nation’s third-largest foodservice distributor, recently announced that five of its DCs are using voice technology from Voxware (www.voxware.com). Sysco, the country’s largest foodservice distributor, uses wearable bar code scanners for picking. U.S. Foodservice, the second-largest foodservice distributor, has been a Voxware customer since 2000, and at le...
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No more heavy lifting By Corinne Kator, Associate Editor - 08/01/2008
Thanks to the Caribbean tourist trade, there’s strong demand for bottled drinking water on the island of Puerto Rico. With sales growing at a steady clip, Cristalia Premium Water recently found it was having difficulty keeping up with that demand. The company decided to explore automatic palletizing as a way to manage growth at its bottling plant in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
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Food and beverage chains cut waste out of supply chain By Bob Trebilcock, Editor at Large - 08/01/2008
Given that companies are just now addressing what it means to be green in their materials handling operations, we talked to eight suppliers who regularly sell to food and beverage customers and asked them to focus on one of the central tenets of going green—the reduction of waste, whether that is wasted energy, wasted labor or wasted resources—and suggest ways materials handling can help that industry make better use of what they have while reducing their carbon footprint.
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Takeaways Tom Andel, Editor-In-Chief, Modern Materials Handling August 18, 2008 Evolution by acquisition
A rash of M&A announcements begs the question: why is materials handling so hot a... More
Company Briefings Bob Trebilcock, Editor at Large, Modern Materials Handling August 13, 2008 It’s the people, stupid.
When Bill Clinton ran for his first term as president, his campaign had a four-word m... More
Company Briefings Bob Trebilcock, Editor at Large, Modern Materials Handling August 5, 2008 The tower of software Babel
In the Old Testament, the city of Babel brought together people from all over the kno... More
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