CHICAGO – Greater Chicago is the third largest economy in the U.S., with dozens of Fortune 500 brands ranging from McDonald’s to Walgreens calling the Windy City home. With more purchasing professionals than most American regions, Greater Chicago is a hub for procurement activity, led by some of the profession’s most innovative CPOs. For that…
NEEDHAM, MA – The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the world’s leading organization transforming business and society by accelerating the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and the Edge Computing Consortium (ECC), a world leading organization driving edge computing industry development in the Internet of Things (IoT) area, announced they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to partner on shared…
Smart Gladiator, an innovative mobile-enabling supply chain solution provider and developer of the next generation Wearable, Tablet and Mobile technologies for supply chain execution is proud to announce, its product Loadproof (www.loadproof.com) to Image Enable Supply Chain has helped Kenco’s customers save significant dollars. Loadproof has been selected as a finalist for the 2017 CSCMP…
Manufacturing has been looming on the edge of an ominous skills gap for some time. Despite a lot of conversation, we still haven’t solved it. At the same time, we are taking steps in the right direction. The Manufacturing Institute launched its STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Production) Ahead initiative. As part of the program,…
Recently, I was invited to take a place on a Tech for Distribution Center (DC) panel during the annual Georgia Logistics Summit. We tackled some intriguing questions: During this time of technological change, what does the future work force look like? What is the most important quality to look for when hiring? Who will be…
Phoenix – Avnet, a leading global technology distributor, announced that registration is now open for a series of interactive SpeedWay Design Workshops for designers of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications using Avnet’s SK002 Visible Things IIoT Starter Kit. The one-day, hands-on “Edge to Enterprise IoT Platform Speedway” training events, hosted by Avnet in ten…
(NEW YORK) Today Environmental Defense Fund announced the launch of a new webinar series, Greening the Global Shopping Cart, an exploration of the challenges and opportunities to advance sustainability across the retail, grocery and consumer goods industries. In the wake of Walmart’s Project Gigatoninitiative to a cut a billion tons of emissions from the retail supply chain…
CHICAGO – NeoGrid, a global technology provider of end-to-end supply chain management solutions, announces that, in addition to being a platinum global sponsor, its founder, Miguel Abuhab, will present at the 2017 Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO) International Conference scheduled for July 16-19 in Berlin. Abuhab’s presentation” How to Prioritize the Shipment of…
Philosophers may say that the only thing that is constant is change, but supply chain business people will say change is the only thing that offers the opportunity for success, but only if it’s done right. The first step, though, is figuring out where the changes will begin—and it might not be obvious at first…
There’s been plenty of talk about how the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) will revolutionize manufacturing and supply chains, and now it’s getting a boost from IBM’s Watson. ABB recently announced it was collaborating to bring together its ABB Ability with IBM Watson IoT cognitive capabilities to customers in utilities, industry, transport and infrastructure. In…