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Abu-Dhabi-based Etihad Selects Descartes
A global on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) logistics solutions provider, Descartes will provide a range of electronic communications services aimed...
New RFID Technology; Plus Airbus Signs On
On the hardware side of RFID, PowerID Ltd. announced general availability of its battery-assisted passive RFID label product using the EPCglobal Class...
Healthcare Group Releases Supply Chain Data Blueprint
Describing it as ground-breaking research, the Healthcare Distribution Management Association (HDMA) says the blueprint offers a vision for tracking and...
Audiovox to Use Siras to Reduce Theft and Fraud
Siras's programs have proven to be especially effective in reducing retail shrinkage and fradulent returns, said Tom Malone, president of Audiovox Electronics...
Sirit to Acquire RSI ID Technologies
RSI ID Technologies is a vertical manufacturer of antennas, inlays and tags for specialized, passive RFID applications. The combination with Sirit's readers...
Focus on Visibility
It sounds almost like sacrilege to hear True Value Companys Steve Poplawski say that tools alone won't solve your supply chain problems. For me, it is...
Wal-Mart Says Use RFID Tags or Pay Up
The first place in the Wal-Mart supply chain to feel the fee is the Texas Sams Club warehouse outlet distribution center. In Wal-Marts view, the fee is...
Keeping Pace With Track and Trace
US businesses inventories have topped $1 trillion for the last several years. Keeping track of all of those goods and the assets associated with them...
Zebra Extends Logistics Capabilities with Navis Acquisition
Best known as a supplier of on-demand specialty digital printing and automatic identification systems Zebra Technologies describes itself as helping companies...
With Driver Communication, Data Makes the Difference
Getting, understanding and making use of real-time shipment and delivery information is necessary in todays transportation and distribution marketplace....
Saving for the Carrier Saves for the Shipper
Providing customers with freight status data is critical to the success enjoyed by Wessin Transport, Inc. (www.wessintransport.com). The company is an...
Predicted Move to Active RFID Developing
Aberdeen Group reported in January 2006 that while only 8% of manufacturers had adopted active RFID at that time, 48% planned to do so. Most were foregoing...
Tech Gift Furthers RFID Training
Psions donation will support a foundation course in the electrical engineering track that is designed to provide fundamentals in RFID technology and its...
Dimensioning Takes Shape
"Carriers have always said if customers want to go to a density-based system that didn't have a class element, we would do that. ABF introduced a density-based...
Picking Up the PiecesSmartly
Of technologies available to automate warehouse operations, pick-to-light enjoys success by boosting picker productivity with increased speed and accuracy...
Chinese and US Ports Launch RFID Network
The Shanghai-Savannah Express Trade Lane Project represents a partnership of Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG), Georgia Ports Authority and Savi...
RedPrairie Integrates Voxware Voice Solution With Its Warehouse Management System
RedPrairie Corp. (Milwaukee, Wis.) will integrate Voxware's (Lawrenceville, N.J.) voice solution with RedPrairie's warehouse management system (WMS)....
Risks Multiply With IT Investments
As companies continuously strive to lower costs, reduce assets and improve quality, their supply chains are transformed, often faster than their ability...
Avery Dennison Acquires Paxar for $1.3 Billion
The boards of directors of Avery Dennison Corp. (Pasadena, Calif.) and Paxar Corp. (White Plains, N.Y.) unanimously approved an agreement for Avery Dennison...
From Stable to Table
When bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was discovered in Canada, Atlantic Beef Products (ABP, www.abpi.ca) managers decided they needed to protect...
Savi and South Carolina Ports Team for Security and More
Once installed and operating, the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) infrastructure--SaviTrak--will boost the security and efficiency of the Port....
Power2Ship Officially Becomes Fittipaldi Logistics
Power2Ship, Inc. has officially changed its name to Fittipaldi Logistics, Inc. (Boca Raton, Fla.) and will now trade on the Over the Counter securities...
Microsoft Selects Intermec to Support Microsoft Technology Centers
Intermec Inc. (Everett, Wash.), a developer of RFID, will supply RFID hardware to Microsoft Technology Centers in Austin, Reston, Chicago, Boston, Silicon...
Real Time Container Visibility During All Shipment Transit
When paired with the carriers web-based event management offering, the active radio frequency identification (RFID) system will provide real-time detailed...
Tracking for Speed and Security
Real-time visibility into exact locations of containers and cargo has neverbeen as important as today with increased movement of cargo from offshore,...
