Technology News
Retail RFID: When and How, not Why or If - LP Portal
RFID Journal Live's 10th anniversary conference and exhibition was held in early April. I've attended them all and have seen the cycle of interest and enthusiasm rise...
RFID Captures Each Time Guests Throw in the Towel - RFID Journal
While working at several health clubs, Steven Molewyk had observed how much money they often lost due to discarded or stolen towels. To address this problem, Molewyk founded...
Electric Imp promises to connect all consumer electronics wirelessly - Ubergizmo
In 1999, British technology pioneer Kevin Ashton co-founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT, a global standard system for RFID and other sensors. His vision – to create the “Internet of...
Alexandria District Tackles 3-Year ERP Project - T.H.E. Journal
Alexandria City Public Schools has gone public with a June 2011 decision to implement a new set of enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications at the same time the...
TrackIT launches Cloud-based asset tracking system - RFID News
TrackIT Solutions, an RFID solutions provider based in the Middle East, announced the launch of EnTrackAsset, a Web-enabled RFID tracking solution designed to streamline and automate corporate asset...
Land O'Lakes to use NetSuite OneWorld - DM News
Land O'Lakes is using the enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution OneWorld, NetSuite announced May 16 at SuiteWorld 2012 in San Francisco, the business software provider's annual conference. Land O'Lakes,...
Navizon's Cloud-based RTLS Service Tracks Wi-Fi Tags, Devices - RFID Journal
Navizon, a real-time location system (RTLS) technology provider based in Miami, Fla., has begun marketing a service to track the locations of Wi-Fi-based active RFID tags, or any...
Get ready for Commerce-as-a-Service: NetSuite takes selling to the cloud - BetaNews
You've heard of Platform-as-a-Service, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service; maybe even Gaming-as-a-Service, too, from BetaNews' reporting on Tuesday. Get ready for the latest X-as-a-Service, thanks to a new Commerce-as-a-Service (CaaS) initiative...
ERP software by SAP helps McLaren in F1 fight - Codestone
McLaren's bid to dominate Formula 1 in 2012 will be given a helping hand by leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provider SAP. The technology company has announced...
Double Digit Top-Line Growth at DecisionPoint Systems, Inc. - Analyst Blog - NASDAQ
On May 15, 2012, DecisionPoint Systems, Inc. ( DPSI ), the Foothill Ranch, California based enterprise mobility and RFID systems integrator, reported financial results for its fiscal...
The Consumerization of ERP Software - Software Advice (blog)
At this year's Microsoft Convergence event, I had the chance to sit down with Christian Pedersen, Microsoft's General Manager of Enterprise Applications and Services. I asked Pedersen about...
Dennison Trailers Hits the Road With Epicor ERP - Broadcast Newsroom
Epicor Software Corporation, a global leader in business software solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail and services organisations, today announced that Dennison Trailers, a designer and ...
Richmond defends $18M overhaul of IT systems - Richmond Times Dispatch
Despite accusations of waste and mismanagement made last week by a former consultant, city officials on Monday defended the handling of an $18 million contract to overhaul the...
Linking RFID Product Buyers With Sellers - RFID Journal
I receive at least a dozen e-mails every week from end users looking to know if there is a tag that can be used in a particular market—for...
Print bar code and radio frequency identification labels - Utility Products
Brunswick, Ohio—Tharo Systems Inc. provides an easy solution for printing bar code and RFID labels using XML (Extensible Markup Language) enabled enterprise systems. EASYLABEL 5 Platinum's XML Monitor...
SAP certifies Business All-in-One for Amazon Web Services - Reseller News
SAP has certified its Business All-in-One ERP (enterprise resource planning) application for cloud-based deployments on Amazon Web Services, the companies announced Friday.The certification applies to both...
RFID tags, iPads transforming Dallas area car dealer service departments - Dallas Morning News (subscription)
A couple of years ago, the Dallas Mercedes-Benz and Porsche dealership began attaching RFID tags, similar to TollTags, to new and used vehicles. Monitors on the...
University of Alabama Tags Historical Garments Collection - RFID Journal
Employees and volunteers at the University of Alabama's Carolyn Thomas Stewart Costume and Textile Collection are installing radio frequency identification technology to locate and track many of the...
ID thieves targeting cell phones to steal credit, debit cards - WFAA
It may sound like science fiction, but identity theft experts warn thieves could be using your cell phone to steal your credit and debit card numbers. Worse, they...
The History of ERP - Click Liverpool
In the twenty first century, enterprise resource planning (ERP) is well known for its abilities to help improve business processes. However, many might be surprised to...
Business
Charting a different course - Chicago Tribune
Getting an MBA is still the logical step toward the corner office, but more students are veering off the beaten...
Vodafone Ghana's 'Healthline' wins international award - Vibe Ghana
Vodafone Ghana’s groundbreaking initiative, ‘Healthline’ has been awarded the Best Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Initiative at the Chartered Institute of...
Gaining In-Demand Skills in Today's Top Fields May Be the Best Investment You ... - eReleases (press release)
Invest in yourself! That’s the key message emphasized in the new spring 2012 Executive Education Online catalog, which supplies course...
Logistics & Manufacturing
DHL award logistics contract extension by BP - Analytiqa
DHL Supply Chain has won a £75.0 million contract extension from BP to manage warehousing and distribution for its UK...
NOL Group Reports US$254 Million First Quarter Net Loss - LogisticsWeek
NOL Group, the Singapore-based container shipping and logistics company, today reported a first quarter 2012 net loss of US$254 million...
Face the logistics carbon reduction challenge says FTA - HGV UK
Due to increased pressure from both government and customers, commercial vehicle operators must face the challenge of reducing carbon emissions...
Procurement
What Does AmazonSupply Mean to the Business Supply Chain? - Supply & Demand Chain Executive
With the debut of AmazonSupply, e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. finally made its move into the B2B marketplace on April 23....
Examining the EC strategy for e-procurement - Supply Management
The European Commission recently published its paper Strategy for e-procurement. The publication followed the recent proposed revised procurement directives, in...
UK Contract Awards: Airedale Chemicals Wins Contract for Supplying ... - Water World
Airedale Chemicals Co. Ltd., West Yorkshire, won a contract award from Thames Water Utilities Ltd. for the supply of orthophosphoric...
Transportation & Warehousing
Transportation costs hound Minnesota fresh produce industry - The Packer
The cost of fuel has added significantly to the price buyers and consumers pay for produce. While people may not have...
Consumerization trends hit IT service management - ITworld.com
Attendees at ServiceNow's Knowledge12 user conference here this week were abuzz about the promise of social collaboration and mobile enablement...
Logistics Solutions Provider, Source Consulting, Now Offers Transportation ... - Seattle Post Intelligencer
In addition to in-house transportation cost management services, Source Consulting now offers innovative, cloud-based transportation management systems, Intelliship and HALO....



