Sat.Oct 31, 2020

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Walmart Canada: Fixing a ‘Broken’ Freight Audit and Payment Process With Blockchain

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The giant retailer undertakes an ambitious initiative to make sense of its painfully complex freight payment and reconciliation process, involving its own fleet as well as those of outside carriers, and moving more than half a million shipments a year.

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Intel Puts Its Indirect-Materials Spend on the Road to Digitization

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Tackling the job of assessing all of its contracts for indirect-materials spend, Intel Corp. scraps a laborious and outdated manual process, and puts its entire supply chain on the road to digitization.

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Watch: Coping With COVID-19 in the Workplace

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Rob Wilson, president of Employco USA, offers advice on how employers should protect workers from contracting the coronavirus in the workplace, and what action to take when they do.

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Innovation 2020: Some Bright Ideas in a Difficult Year

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More companies are waking up to the need for change, and this year’s crop of candidates was especially strong.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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‘Hydrogen Wars’ Pit Europe v. China for $700 Billion Business

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Governments, energy giants, automobile companies and lobbying groups say hydrogen use is pivotal for cutting greenhouse gas emissions quickly enough to prevent the worst effects of climate change.

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Virtual Reality Helps Solve Real-World Workforce Challenge

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To address this the challenge of finding skilled warehouse workers, The Raymond Corp. worked with Broome-Tioga Workforce New York to develop a virtual educational program — and found that innovative workplace instruction can attract and retain talent.

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Reimagined Communication Boosts Cisco's Product Quality

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Digitizing communications used to issue alerts and share data helped Cisco Systems Inc. reduce recall costs by 80%.

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A Better Box Is Saving Millions of Dollars at Intel

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Intel Corp.'s new shipping solution for 300-millimeter silicon wafers has cut material and freight cost by 70%.