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Daimler Selects Icertis Contract Management Platform to Standardize Procurement Operations Across its 400,000 Suppliers

EBN OnlineBy January 24, 2017 Leave a comment

Bellevue, WA – Icertis, the leading provider of enterprise contract lifecycle management in the cloud, today announced that Daimler AG has selected the Icertis Contract Management (ICM) platform built on Microsoft Azure as the platform of choice to launch the redesign of its worldwide procurement. This transformative initiative will ensure agility and flexibility across Daimler’s…

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Additive 3D Printing Creates Another Supply Chain Tier

EBN OnlineBy January 24, 2017 Leave a comment

Improved materials with be where the innovation is in the coming years, disrupting the current paradigms of parts replacement and storage. Not surprisingly, 3D printing got a lot of attention at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, but it’s also poised to fundamentally change the behavior of supply chains. Just as consumers are now able to…

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Are You Inadvertently Disengaging Your Workforce?

EBN OnlineBy January 24, 2017 Leave a comment

Faced with shrinking profit margins, demand volatility, faster turnaround times, capacity or skills gaps, and other market dynamics, today’s distribution and supply chain management (SCM) companies can increase throughput and productivity with a strong engagement strategy. You may be thinking that employee engagement is a fleeting buzzword, or worse, a difficult strategy to execute. Yet…

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Batteries Caused Samsung Galaxy to Explode

EBN OnlineBy January 23, 2017 14 Comments

TOKYO — Following a three-month investigation into the exploding Galaxy Note 7 handsets, Samsung put the blame squarely on the devices’ batteries. The company also revealed Monday that the Galaxy S8 would not be showcased at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month — an event typically used by the company to reveal its…

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Sky’s the Limit for Tech Innovations in Warehousing

EBN OnlineBy January 22, 2017 Leave a comment

We’ve arrived at 2017. Though I don’t recall seeing any technological predictions anchored on this particular year, we can look at what we’re supposed to be working toward with respect to the predictions for 2020 and what has come to light last year. From that perspective, you can see that warehousing tech is a really…

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Chain of Responsibility Protects Drivers & Others

EBN OnlineBy January 22, 2017 Leave a comment

On a recent shopping trip to coastal Maine, my wife could not get over the amount of trucks on Interstate 95, the major north south east coast super highway. For me, having grown up and learned to drive within a stone’s throw of I-95 as a kid in New Jersey, trucks on highways are as…

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Mouser Now Offers Product Search by Images

News WireBy News Desk January 20, 2017 1 Comment

Mouser Electronics, Inc., constantly improving how customers can browse and search for products, announces a new way to visually find and select the right products on its industry-leading website,Mouser.com. With a few simple clicks, Mouser customers can now find product information via Images, as well as by Datasheets or by Newest Products — in addition to searching for products through the site’s parametric Product Search. The Images…

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NHTSA Lets Tesla Off The Hook

EBN OnlineBy January 20, 2017 Leave a comment

TOKYO — The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) concluded a months-long investigation of a fatal crash in Florida last May, and reported Thursday that the agency found no defects in Tesla’s Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) and Autopilot systems. Definitely, Tesla is exonerated. Did NHTSA let Tesla off the hook too easily? Absolutely. What lessons or…

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New Yorker Electronics Adds High-Voltage Power Supplies

IP&E, News WireBy News Desk January 20, 2017 Leave a comment

New Yorker Electronics is now distributing the new Dean Technology PMT Series of adjustable Microsize DC/DC High Voltage Power Supplies. The new PMT Series offers standard inputs of 12, 15 and 24 volts, and outputs of up to 1500 volts and up to 1 watt. This series is designed to accommodate such applications as photomultipliers,…

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China Looms Large in Chip M&A

News AnalysisBy Barbara Jorgensen January 20, 2017 Leave a comment

One of the players looming large in semiconductor M&A activity is China. Both IHS Markit and IC Insights have analyzed the growing role of China in the semiconductor industry during 2015 and 2016. “Cash-rich China wants to become a global semiconductor player,” according to Greg Wood, Director of Part Content for IHS Markit. During a recent webinar,…

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