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Traditional Peak Season for Retail Container Imports into US Market May Be 'Melting Away'

Retailers moving to restock shelves earlier, shipping capacity increasing, suggests NRF's latest Global Port Tracker report; 2010 retail container traffic projected to be up 15 percent

India Poised to Be Dominant Player as Global Engineering R&D Market Seen Hitting $1.4 Trillion by 2020

Global spending is driven by a heightened focus on innovation and an increased emphasis on emerging markets, study finds

M&A Revving up for Automotive and Global Chemicals, Cool for Industrial and Global Metals

PricewaterhouseCoopers updates outlook for mergers and acquisitions, offers advice for M&A due diligence in the 'New Normal'

Safelite Autoglass Drives Accuracy in the DC with a New WMS

To grow its operations and improve inventory management, the windshield replacement company needed a warehouse management system to take the paper out of its processes

Good to Grape: Welch's Juices up Its Inventory Management

Improving warehouse and inventory management operations creates efficiencies across a high-velocity nationwide supply chain

Economic Concerns, Consumer Demand Remain Top Priorities for Consumer Goods Industry

China Women's Wear Suppliers Optimistic about Sales, but Profit Remains Difficult in 2010

Extending Quality into the Global Supply Chain

Guest Column: RFID Becoming Sewn into Fabric of the Fashion Business

Economic Optimism Slowly Rebounding among U.S. Industrial Manufacturers

Consumer News

FlagHouse Aims to Exorcise Inventory and Pump up Service with New Forecasting Tools

Phys Ed equipment provider taps intermittent demand forecasting and collaboration solutions from Smart Software to help optimize inventory and set safety stock

Fox Head Selects Centric PLM to Meet Growth Opportunities

Motocross industry leader cites Centric's apparel industry expertise, ease of use, out-of-box functionality and rapid deployment in move to replace PDM and spreadsheets

Silvertap Wines Finds Time Is Fine for RFID on the Vines

Wines-on-tap leader taps real-time RFID solution for wineries from Mobile BIS and Psion Teklogix handhelds to track every keg of wine in the pipleine

Automated Entertainment Rental Stores use RFID Tags to Streamline Key Processes

Movie and game rental chain MovieQ taps UPM Raflatac to select, verify and dispense RFID-tagged items, authenticate returns

Restoration Hardware Expands use of GT Nexus for Strategic Import Visibility and Control

Cloud-based supply chain platform to provide inventory visibility, supplier collaboration, scan & pack and procure-to-pay capabilities for specialty retailer