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May 30, 2012

Logistics News: New Software Application Could Significantly Ease Effort to Connect Voice Technology to Existing WMS Software

VoiceExpress from Vocollect Leverages Existing RF Transactions to Enable Voice Applications in the WMS

TOPICS : Automatic Data Collection | Data collection/AIDC | Distribution | Order picking

May 30, 2012

Logistics News: Rail Carriers Kept Rolling in in Q1, While LTL Sector Muddles Along Like Usual

Rail Carrier Profits Continue to Soar on Modest Volume Growth; LTL Sector Continues Struggles, but Conway Joins Old Dominion in Showing Strong Profits

TOPICS : Logistics costs | Logistics | Rail carriers/transportation | Transportation | Trucking

May 29, 2012

Supply Chain News: "Microwave" Unionization Process Shot Down by Federal Court for Now

Decision Cheered by Business Groups, but Victory on Technical Grounds Likely to be Short-Lived

TOPICS : Manufacturing | Supply chain costs

May 28, 2012

RFID and AIDC News: Will Multi-Channel Commerce Be the Catalyst that Finally Drives RFID into Retail?

Super High Levels of Inventory Accuracy become Necessary to Commit and Fulfill Multi-Channel Orders

TOPICS : Retail industry supply chain | RFID



May 23, 2012

Supply Chain News: Two Steps to Revive US Manufacturing

It is a Mercantilist World, Not a Free Trade One, Former IBM Exec Says; Tax Incentives and Smart Tariff Policies Could Work

TOPICS : Global supply chain | Manufacturing | Outsourcing/offshoring

May 23, 2012

Global Logistics News: Pacific Maritime Association Says that West Coast Port Automation is Coming, but is Still in Early Stages

Longshoremen Union has Signed Off on Need to Move to Future, Eliminating a Major Obstacle to Automation

TOPICS : Global logistics | Logistics | Ocean carriers | Transportation

May 23, 2012

Supply Chain News: In Surprise Move, SAP to Acquire Procurement Software Vendor Ariba for $4.3 Billion

Some Expect Another Firm to Make a Higher Bid; How Solutions will be Rationalized not Clear

TOPICS : Procurement/Supplier Management | Supply chain software

May 21, 2012

Supply Chain Video News for May 21, 2012

New Study Says These Really May be Most Challenging Supply Chain Times Ever; Macys is Revamping it E-Fulfillment Network; Top Reason for Shipper-3PL Divorce, plus the Supply Chain Week in Numbers

TOPICS : VideoNews