Woodstock Wire: Supply Chain News

Advanced MP Technology -- Automation engineering is becoming a popular option for the global supply chain. Here are 5 factors impacting demand for supply chain automation processes. Supply chain automation is sweeping logistics centers on a global scale, removing the human work...

Life -- Phys.org - In an open marketplace, such as a farmers' market where produce and other goods like candles and flowers are exchanged for money, the ideal prices for both consumers and sellers will quickly emerge. For example, if a seller tries to offer a...

Advanced MP Technology -- At A2 Global, we are constantly watching how world events and the markets will impact our customers. So, we've amassed all of the relevant electronics industry news and trends in one place to serve as your go-to resource. Read on to discover market updates...

SupplyChain -- DC Velocity - As Supply Chain Management becomes more virtual, the associated risk escalates.

SupplyChain -- Conexiom - In wholesale manufacturing and distribution, the order-to-cash process is a vital part of success. Streamlining the order-to-cash process flow helps you serve customers more efficiently, reduce delays and errors, and deploy your staff most...

SupplyChain -- Logistics Management - In this white paper, Convoy will review five fundamental attributes of resilient supply chains and also how shippers can secure reliable and flexible capacity in any market condition with a digital freight network.

SupplyChain -- Supply Chain Nation - How do you stay agile, and at the same time, support a vast portfolio of products and customers?



Blue Yonder serves a large customer base of companies with a varied set of products and capabilities, all of which are leveraged...

SupplyChain -- Logistics Management - While supply chain organizations deal with the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, they still pursue gender equality goals. According to Gartner, Inc.'s 2020 Women in Supply Chain Survey among 177 supply chain professionals, 17%...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - When it comes to B2B payments fraud, it's not a matter of if it happens, but when.

Speaking with Karen Webster in a recent interview, OnPay Solutions President and CEO Neal Anderson explained that organizations have to prepare themselves...

Media -- Electronics Sourcing - The number of options that can be specified for high reliability electronic components can feel overwhelming at first glance.

This is especially true when some degree of overlapping or mirroring is evident from one product / part...

Media -- ELE Times - The 21st century is an era of electronics systems - and semiconductor devices are the heart of these systems. Being deficient in chip manufacturing is a bottleneck in electronics manufacturing. The existing trend of chip development at nanometer...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - On top of being a cumbersome payment vehicle, the paper check continues to pose a major risk to corporate coffers. Fraud is on the rise, from both within and outside of the organization, and bad actors continue to take advantage of the paper...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Smartphone shipments to the China market are expected to decline both sequentially and annually in the third quarter of 2020, after experiencing a robust on-quarter growth in the previous quarter, according to Digitimes Research.

Media -- PYMNTS.com - When one stops to consider how fast merchants pivoted to offer their consumers digitally-enriched shopping journeys and how many things customers can do now that they couldn't as recently as January, it's pretty staggering.

That would be...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - "Please put seat backs and tray tables in their upright and locked position. Your monthly subscription box of (fill in the blank) will be descending from the sky momentarily."



Except with drones, there are no seats or drivers.

Meet the future:...

Media -- Robotics and Automation News - Reshoring industrial operations from China to the US has not been as straightforward as it may have sounded at first, and companies looking to do so "face significant problems", according to a report by the South China Morning...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - While the global pandemic has opened many corporates' eyes to the value of automation, for many firms, the digitization journey may have lost its way.

"Digital transformation" is such a hot buzzword that some businesses might have forgotten...

Media -- Electronics Sourcing - CalcuQuote's founder and president, Chintan Sutaria

CalcuQuote's founder and president, Chintan Sutaria explains how a digital thread takes the guesswork out of managing supply and demand.

Real-time visibility is essential when...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - Although the enterprise continues to accelerate its digitization efforts, chief financial officers keep hitting roadblocks when it comes to modernizing workflows regarding accounts payable (AP) and embracing electronic payments.

Their hesitancy...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - Using machine learning, users can identify potentially fraudulent online activities, such as online payment and identity fraud, the creation of fake accounts, and loyalty account and promotion code abuse.

Enterprise -- SiliconANGLE - Conexiom, a Canadian software-as-a-service provider focused on making companies' sales processes more efficient, today said that it has landed $40 million in funding from Iconiq Capital. Iconiq Capital makes investments on behalf of a...

Enterprise -- Microsoft - Collaboration will build pathways to financial security and provide tools for sustainable growth



On Tuesday, Mastercard and Microsoft Corp. announced a collaboration to shape the future...

PR Newswire -- SparkFun Electronics and Alchitry are pleased to announce they have entered into a strategic partnership, combining SparkFun's logistics and hardware expertise with Alchitry's FPGA knowledge and experience. SparkFun will manufacture and...

PR Newswire -- SparkFun Electronics is pleased to announce the launch of nine new value-added services covering board development, logistics and training. The new services include: Development Board Design and Manufacturing Custom Assembly Sales/Demo Kit...

Aspencore -- EPS News - Covid-19 has disrupted the supply chain globally, requiring fast action from logistics companies that want to continue driving growth through the pandemic. New technology will likely be a key resource for these businesses.

The...

Business Wire -- The U.S. Navy awarded a $63.5 million single-award task order under the SeaPort-NxG Multiple Award Contract to Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) to provide mission engineering and integration services to the Global Deterrence and Defense...

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - Shipments from businesses to U.S. consumers soared 65%.

Business Wire -- Smartphone sales in China declined 17% YoY in Q2 2020, according to Counterpoint's Market Pulse, a monthly smartphone sales tracking service. However, the sales increased 9% QoQ, indicating some signs of recovery. COVID-19 has been mostly contained in...

Life -- Phys.org - A typical recycling process converts large quantities of items made of a single material into more of the same. However, this approach isn't feasible for old electronic devices, or 'e-waste,' because they contain small amounts of many different...

Aspencore -- EETimes - The business of building and selling vehicles is changing like never before in the history of the automobile. The quest for cars that drive themselves has completely upended what it means to design a car - and, indeed, what it means to own a...

Aspencore -- EETimes - How did we even get here? The erratic sequence of diminishing tensions and escalations in the U.S. vs. China conflict can make one's head spin.

The history of U.S.-China relations in the past three and half years has been laced with a series...

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - The company said backlog in its Safety and Productivity Solutions segment was up 100 percent from a year earlier.

Tech -- TechCrunch - Pricefx, the Munich-founded startup that offers cloud-based pricing software, has raised $65 million in Series C funding.

The round was led by funds advised by Apax Digital, the growth equity team of Apax Partners, with participation from...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - Banks missed out on the first big wave of digital payments, but they don't have to miss out on the next, Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards told Karen Webster in a recent conversation.

"The entire [digital payments] industry ends up being created...

Tech -- TechCrunch - Last year, Gartner found that Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is the fastest growing category in enterprise software. So perhaps it shouldn't come as a surprise that UIPath, a leading startup in the space, announced a $225 million Series...

SupplyChain -- Supply Chain Nation - Susan Arnett is a senior education architect at Blue Yonder and has been with the company more than 15 years. As a life coach in her spare time, Susan talks about how important it is to find the right balance between a career path...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - Goldman Sachs has predicted that online shopping will expand by 19 percent each year during the next three years to come, which marks a rise from its past forecast of 16 percent. The firm said the acceleration was mainly fueled by quicker...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - Fraudsters aren't usually static. They're often dynamic when on the hunt for new weaknesses to exploit, new targets to go after and new ways to get into systems where they aren't supposed to be. And while COVID-19 has accelerated fraud, it's...

Infosec -- CyberScoop - In the last few weeks, the Ripple20 vulnerabilities have once again brought the challenge of securing IoT and OT devices to the forefront, underscoring the risky supply chain of software and hardware components that serves as the foundation...

Business Wire -- Apple(r) today unveiled its plan to become carbon neutral across its entire business, manufacturing supply chain, and product life cycle by 2030. The company is already carbon neutral today for its global corporate operations, and this new commitment...

Tech -- TechCrunch - Scott Salandy-Defour used to make frequent stops at a battery manufacturer in southern China for his energy startup based in Hong Kong. The appeal of Hong Kong, he said, is its adjacency to the plentiful electronics suppliers in the Pearl...

SupplyChain -- UPS - On behalf of UPS employees and retirees, the following is a statement from UPS Chief Executive Officer, Carol Tome.

SupplyChain -- UPS - New solution aims to reduce uncertainty, provide reliability and streamline operations across the supply chain

Today, Coyote Logistics, a leading global third-party logistics (3PL) provider, expanded its Dynamic Route Optimization program that aims...

SupplyChain -- DC Velocity - Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a system through which distributors and manufacturers use to plan, distribute, and track the inward and outward flow of materials and products.

SupplyChain -- Conexiom - B2B customer service is important in any industry. However, if you are a wholesale manufacturer or distributor, it is paramount. Offering an exceptional b2b customer experience can be a crucial differentiator - but isn't easy.



Unique Customer...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - Amazon will be restricting its storage capacities in warehouses as the coronavirus continues to surge and the holidays are still ahead, a company blog post states.

The company says it has put new limits in place on IPI minimum threshold requirements,...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - "How can banks, retailers and financial institutions strike the right balance between offering advanced services to customers while flattening the overwhelming spike in fraud?"

People aren't always who they pretend to be, and that goes triple...

Media -- Robotics and Automation News - Blue Yonder and Uber Freight have agreed a partnership designed to help businesses build efficient and transparent global supply chains at a crucial time. Digital transformation initiatives have accelerated over the last...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - The United States will need 1 billion additional square feet of warehouse space by 2025 due to the fast growth of eCommerce, according to a new report by real estate consultancy JLL.

Among the key findings in the JLL report were that need...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - Mastercard is harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) in a bid to hit fraudsters hard by searching for emerging patterns of criminal activity before they become major problems, two top executives told Karen Webster during Mastercard's Virtual...