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AUGUST 29, 2020

That’s a big price tag, but it’s not so bad when one considers that doing that using humans to perform that kind of plant surveying work would cost roughly $300,000. On the back end, robots are playing a growing number of important roles in the retail supply chain. Such robots aren’t cheap. A Do-It-Yourself Robotic Dog.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Talk about supply chain issues. Say what you will about old toys versus new, but it all beats the heck out of “CoronaBall,” where the ball is shaped like the virus — now popular in parts of Canada — as well as “social-distancing tag” and other drab adaptations of summer backyard play recently cited by The Atlantic.

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APRIL 24, 2018

To meet this, more providers are now rolling out security solutions for use cases spanning from supply chain fulfillment to predictive maintenance. New funding also came to Contguard, a supply chain shipment monitoring and business intelligence services company.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Its main mission is to update those analog lost-pet posters via a a Bluetooth-enabled tag that not only helps pet owners find their wayward pets, but also gives them access to other digital and mobile services. Better Pet Tag. The goal is to create a really affordable, much better pet tag,” she said. Pet Medicine.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2018

Beyond answering the demands of social media users who crave celebrity and influencer fashions, Choosy seeks to solve another problem: making expensive designer fashions available to the masses without the big price tags. Fashion Through Social Tagging.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Whole Foods was colloquially called “Whole Paycheck” for a reason — eating organic comes with a very high price tag. KeHe will provide Thrive with category insights, supply chain expertise and access to its wider array of products.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

Separately, researchers at Agari are warning of Silent Starling, the newest cybercriminal ring using a Vendor Email Compromise (VEC) scam to steal company cash from supply chains. A New Twist On the BEC Scam. “VEC is the next evolution of business email compromise. Smaller Lenders Fall Victim.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

More accurately, it is 4 billion and counting, Vorhees noted, since Anomalie was created around a highly vertical and integrated supply chain, which is critical when making a customized garment offering. Supporting The Bride .

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JANUARY 3, 2019

The folks that supply the components and casings and chips? Oh, well, they are getting hammered, too, as of Thursday, in an echo of supply chain fears that rattled investors. Whenever an 18-20+ percent revenue contributor – in this case, of course, China – falters, that spells rough sledding for any company.

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JULY 1, 2019

In agriculture, AgriLedger , founded by Haitian entrepreneur Genevieve Leveille, will launch this year to transform the food supply chain landscape. With regarding to listings specifically, right now they are going to be on a so-called ‘private chain.’ Haiti has seen a blockchain boom.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Apple recently rolled out its version of the smart speaker, the HomePod , which has high-quality sound and a hefty price tag along with it. Supply chain sources told DigiTimes that Facebook initially planned on rolling out the smart speakers in May but has opted to delay the launch to perfect the acoustic quality and for software changes.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

With Mastercard putting a 49 percent tag on the eCommerce spike for the holidays, this year will be the toughest on record for handling what is a resource- and capital-intensive task. But now they’re starting to see that it’s actually a forgotten part of the customer journey and the supply chain.”.

Retail 86

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Given the price tag on the Jet.com acquisition, it comes as no surprise that big changes are coming to Walmart’s eCommerce operations; firms generally don’t pay $3 billion for something and then make no changes to accommodate the purchase.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

The tags can also function as anti-theft devices.)”. The overall point, he said, is for the retailer “to run a tight supply chain,” one that eliminates the gaps in the order replenishment process. Treasure Hunt. Concert Commerce. RFID also promises to play a bigger role in summer retail this.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2016

But what effect has the Amazon wave — and the scores of futuristic fulfillment centers that power its logistics — had on the back end of every other retailers’ supply chain management ? According to a new report, the Internet of Things has helped the common warehouse pick up the slack. David Egan, head of U.S.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

. “We’re trying to build a better way, starting with our culture and our team, then looking at the supply chain and how we can bring efficiency to it by going direct. And then building direct relationships with the community we serve,” she told Retail Dive.

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MAY 11, 2016

The merger between Staples and Home Depot is over — and not in the ways either party were hoping for when the possibility of the two office supply chains merging first hit the headlines a year ago. In its first year, Amazon’s B2B sales of office supplies and other products came in at $1 billion.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

It also redraws the global automotive supply chain some and signals that the race is on to control the car. In what will be its largest acquisition to date, South Korean electronics giant Samsung has announced it will buy U.S. auto parts supplier Harman International Industries Inc. for $8 billion in cash.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2017

Last week the company released a new report on the importance of procure-to-pay visibility, noting that even as organizations pay increasing attention to the importance of procurement and its effect on the bottom line, many still aren’t capturing full transparency of their purchasing practices and supply chains.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

Whether it’s monitoring the supply chain, tracking and managing inventory, delivering personalized promotions or enabling eCommerce from new environments, the retail IoT is ushering an era in which ‘smart’ things can seamlessly collect, share and analyze real-time data,” according to eMarketer. billion in 2015 to $35.64

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2019

But with strategies like automated scanning, and future innovations like digital manufacturing tags (of the type Amazon is providing) or blockchain-backed supply chain tracking tags, it is possible that a lot of progress can be made.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

That is, a manufacturer might have a cost of goods sold of $16 and sell it to a brand for $20, which, in turn, might sell it for that $100 price tag. “In He noted that the main people in the supply chain who benefit from the sale of a product are actually those on the front end like brands, retailers and distributors — not manufacturers.

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JUNE 10, 2019

The New York Daily News reported last week that the city’s contract with source-to-pay technology firm Ivalua has seen its price tag increase from $30.5 ” These technologies are often designed to address the particular needs of companies within the supply chain that procure materials and goods in order to sell their own products.

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MAY 16, 2017

To help bring high-end pieces of furniture to the public without having an out-of-reach price tag, the company works directly with two factories to help build on-demand custom sofas. One company that’s helping to move the ball for many living in various space sizes is startup on-demand furniture company Interior Define, based out of Chicago.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

But Urban Outfitters — and its associated family of brands: Anthropologie , Free People, Terrain and BHLDN — has been battling back, expanding its offerings and tightening up its supply chain. By the numbers, the effort is logging results. But now, Urban is taking a stab at its own line of cosmetics with its in-house brand, 0hii.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Toney predicts that this could eventually evolve into interactive experiences, such as scanning a tag in-store to learn more about the product or self-checkout by mobile, allowing shoppers to skip the queue. When a product is #BornDigital, added Hobsbawm, it creates transparency into the supply chain and product lifecycle.

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MAY 18, 2016

Ever since consumers made it clear that they weren’t going to give traditional brands the benefit of the doubt if they couldn’t pivot toward online sales, it’s largely been big-box merchants, like Target and Macy’s, that have blamed supply chain issues for empty shelves, delayed delivery estimates or overflowing stock rooms.

Retail 40

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JUNE 14, 2017

When shoppers go to the fish counter, they’ll find Snapcode origin labels on the shelf tag accompanying each cut. U supermarkets’ Fresh Stories guarantee more than freshness — they also create transparency along the supply chain, showing that U is partnering with local and small businesses, which are trademark values of the brand.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

They've relied on the supply chain of dealing through a variety of retailers,” Bogosian said. With a $45-for-three-months price tag, that subscription box has been popular among consumers — there's a waiting list to get it. The push for Coke over the next year or two will be getting to understand their customers.

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APRIL 5, 2019

In addition, so-called smart tags were already a well-known concept. The overall point, he said, is for the retailer “to run a tight supply chain,” one that eliminates the gaps in the order replenishment process. Granted, RFID wasn’t exactly a new technology. The payoff was pretty clear, too.

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JULY 2, 2018

And, according to Chain Store Age reports – it comes with an audience pre-built in. The offers include healthy snacks, office supplies and apparel exclusive to company members. The offers include healthy snacks, office supplies and apparel exclusive to company members. But the price tag?

Retail 41

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The firms kept the price tag of the funding private , but LendingFront said it will use the backing to strengthen its solution, which uses continuous integrated monitoring of business lifecycles to mitigate borrower risk. Crossflow Payments. Cross-Border Payments.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Facebook will need a Chinese presence to further those hardware projects, since it will need to plug into China’s electronics supply chain in order to build the drones, IoT medical devices and other products envisioned by the company’s innovation arm, Building 8.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

From Alfred Sloan at General Motors to Jack Welch at General Electric to Steve Jobs at Apple, there is a history of CEOs being tagged as superstars (and indispensable to the organizations that they head), in successful companies.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right. And you see some of the supply chains people are diversifying. JOHNSON: So if you have a client who says, I really want to, my daughter will say, I really want things that are pushing towards net-zero on carbon.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The company, its stock and by extension its supply chain have seen a spate of bumps in the past several days as the news came that demand for the newest, upcoming, yet-to-hit-the-market smartphone would be less than stellar. Suppliers Supply Some Downside to the Apple Ecosystem . There are roughly 5.6

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Strategic Treasurer

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Yeah, so the idea that there was some funding in the US that created more demand coupled with supply chain delivery issues. And if you’ve listened to the podcast, you’ve heard me say this before, when people say we plan to use this tag or these types of services at this rate in the next year in the next two years.

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