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Retail Dynasties: What Ruled When and How They Drove Today’s New Retail Economy

The best way to be competitive is to build communities that include trusted partners from up and down the supply chain.

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Are Your Dangerous Goods Shippers Leaving Money on the Table?

Is Amazon Looking for a Logistics Partner?

Amazon reportedly spent $11.5 billion on shipping last year and some estimate that if they were to handle fulfillment all by itself it could offer a potential savings of $1.1 billion annually.

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Risk/Compliance

UK Heading for Hard Brexit, Say European Diplomats

Hard Brexit means giving up the customs union that allows free circulation of goods and membership of the EU single market.

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JTS Launches FreightOptixx Transportation Management System

JTS (Johanson Transportation Service)

FreightOptixx gives users complete visibility to all their freight communications from start to finish.

Sourcing & Procurement

Integrated Business Planning: Making Planning a Strategic Differentiator

The Hackett Group Inc.

Many companies are moving beyond traditional sales and operations planning to more integrated business planning

Figure 2: Typical Benefits from Integrated Business Planning

Emerging Technologies

How Technology Like Pokémon Go Could Capture Supply Chains

Augmented reality lets users interact with virtual images and data imposed on maps of images of actual locations and objects.

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E-Commerce Solutions

Move Over, UPS and FedEx, Here Comes ... Amazon?

Amazon plans to “one day haul and deliver packages for itself, as well as other retailers and consumers …”

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E-Commerce Solutions

Amazon Grabs 55 Percent of First Product Search, Set to Dominate 2016 Holiday Shopping

About nine in 10 consumers check Amazon even if they find a product they want on another retailer's site.

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Retail Holiday Sales to Increase 3.6 to 4 Percent

Digital interactions will influence two-thirds of every dollar spent in store during the holiday season.

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Emerging Technologies

Marine Transport Rolls Out First Blockchain Project for Global Shipping Industry

Blockchain technology will be used to enable the secure and open dissemination of shipping container information.

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Risk/Compliance

World Trade Organization Cuts Global Trade Forecast by a Third

World Trade Organization (WTO)

The downturn reflects the slowdown in China and Brazil, and lower levels of imports into the U.S.

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E-Commerce Solutions

Companies Rush to Adopt Business-to-Business E-Commerce and Sales Technology

Business-to-business omnichannel is meeting customer demand for in-person and online buying experiences.

Handshake, a provider of business-to-business (B2B) commerce technology for manufacturers and distributors, announced key findings from its “2016 Manufacturing & Distribution Sales and Technology Survey Report.”

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