Too sick to go to the store for your cough medicine and ordering it to receive tomorrow is not soon enough? Don’t worry, next-day shipping is quickly becoming a reality. With supply chains making use of military-grade algorithms and employees (both human and robots) on hand 24 hours a day, that cough medicine (or peanut […]

SAP announced in March that they were unveiling a new software to fight the escalating risk of fraud. SAP Fraud Management, powered by SAP HANA, aids those in industries such as insurance, public sector, banking, and healthcare, to detect fraud by analyzing huge amounts of data to detect potential fraud.

It’s been five years since what was dubbed “The Great Recession” began. Beginning in early 2008 and lasting until July 2009, the economy was hit hard, manufacturing in particular. So, how is manufacturing doing now?

Some Michigan logistics professionals are finding it hard to believe that the state with a peninsula, some of the most dangerous cities in the nation, and unused, old automotive factories can be the home of the most up and coming shipping center in the country. Once the logic behind this viewpoint in given, most will […]

Most in the United States probably have not heard of Aadhar, but it is transforming lives of those in India. Aadhar is a government program that is using Big Data to “universally identify” a goal of 600 million Indian residents. It is aiming to become the largest biometric database in the world by 2014 and […]

As with all companies, the healthcare industry is feeling the pressure to cut costs and raise profitability. Walgreen, the largest drug retailing chain in the nation, Alliance Boots, and AmerisourceBergen signed a $400 billion, 10-year agreement that is now coined “Earth’s Drugstore”, as reference by Forbes. In addition to having the opportunity to invest in […]

To summarize a long month of logistics news and events released in the month of March, Georgia Logistics compiled a set of facts and figures for an easy and quick read. GL broke it down into general U.S. economic conditions, trucking, air freight, ocean freight, warehousing and distribution, rail, and multimodal. Here are a few […]

In a recent survey of British retailers conducted by Barclay’s, nearly half responded that the United States’ retail market is the most difficult to crack. Though he U.S. continues to be the highest sought after market in the survey, respondents are surprised by its difficulty despite the internet making for simpler marketing and the U.S. […]

Amazon is the obvious winner when it comes to cloud computing, but Rackspace has an unexpected secret weapon in the works. OpenSpace, Rackspace’s open-source cloud computing platform is getting incredible support from huge clients, such as IBM, HP, Dell and Intel, to assist with Rackspace’s race against Amazon.

In last couple of decades, the Chief Information Officer has had to undergo drastic changes. With constantly updating technology and turbulent global market, today’s CIOs are expected to develop new strategies to stay above the competition.