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The Warehouse As A Competitive Advantage

Automation keeps adding ways to streamline inventory flow.

A worker in a cold storage facility uses the Viastore WMS via radio frequency for paperless picking.

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Ben E. Keith To Accelerate Inbound Logistics Performance With ArrowStream Crossbow

By centralizing its inbound logistics information in Crossbow, Ben E. Keith will see savings drivers and will be able to attach lane-level operational and financial targets to all improvement initiatives across its network.

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Farmers Turn To Robots As New Farm Hands

Harvest Automation created robots that help automate and mechanize labor in nurseries and greenhouses, navigate autonomously, and help farmers move goods and gather information within existing and some unstructured environments.

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E-Commerce Solutions

Global E-Commerce War Heats Up In Response To Chinese Trade Policies

Encouraged by tax-relief programs and other policies from last year, logistics firms including SF Express and state-owned Sinotrans are grabbing a piece of the cross-border e-commerce market which the government estimates to be worth $1 trillion by 2016.

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Software & Technology

Overstock.com's Farmers Market Offers Home Delivery For Local Food

Farmers Market within the Overstock.com website offers customers throughout the U.S. access to home delivery of seasonal, healthy food, grown and produced in their area.

Overstock.com, an ecommerce company that delivers local fresh food through its Farmers Market business, has gained better insights into its operations and reduced task duplications by paying closer attention to data analytics.

Data Security Tops Retailers’ Concerns

National Retail Federation (NRF)

Results from the Retail CIO Agenda 2015: Secure and Innovate Report show that managing data security is the most urgent focus area for retail CIOs, with 97 percent of surveyed business leaders placing it at top of their priority lists.

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Material Handling Equipment

Want A Safer Warehouse? Start With Forklift Users

Using data to manage a fleet of lift trucks pinpoints the safety issues, but keeping the operator comfortable means keeping everyone safe.

A warehouse worker uses Crown's QuickPick Remote to move the lift truck ahead in the aisle, eliminating the need to step up and down off the truck to move to the next pick position.

Don’t Rest On Quality Alone: Recalls Demand Preparing For The Unexpected

Inmar Intelligence

Planning is essential to effective response, consumer safety and minimal business disruption.

Steve Dollase, President, Inmar Supply Chain Network

West Coast Ports Tackle Backlog As Shipping Resumes

Pacific Maritime Association (PMA)

The five-year contract reached Friday after U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez imposed a deadline for a deal, averted a shutdown of 29 ports that would have cost the U.S. economy $2 billion a day.

A cargo container mover carries a container at right next to a cargo ship operated by Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp. at the Port of Tacoma, Friday, Feb. 20, 2015, in Tacoma, Wash.

Emerging Technologies

Android Wear Devices Make Big Strides In 2014

Though the Moto 360 remained supply constrained through Q4, Motorola was the clear leader among Android Wear vendors.

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'Endless Aisle' Strategy: How Grocers Can Win In An Omnichannel Market

SPS Commerce, Inc.

Survey results found that only 4 percent of retail organizations have a fully executed omnichannel strategy, indicating that the retail industry (like the food and beverage industry) is at a turning point.

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Food Companies Embrace ‘Bioillumination’ Technology To Simplify Food Safety

Sample6's advanced “bioillumination” technology and analytics platform reduces pathogen detection testing time to a single shift and simplifies the analysis process, catching potential product issues before they leave the plant and enter the food chain.

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