Breaking NewsWalmart Will Tag Jeans and Underwear with RFIDRetail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will start tagging garments, specifically jeans and underwear, with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips beginning August 2010. The effort is seen as a test of item-level tagging, and if successful, Walmart is expected to widen its RFID initiative to other products at its stores... Carrefour Deploys In-Store Mobile ComputersEuropean retail giant Carrefour has contracted with Datalogic Mobile for the supply of mobile computers in its retail stores. Datalogic's handheld devices will be used for Carrefour's retail in-store solutions... Import Costs Weigh On the Minds of Brazil's Supply Chain ExecsIn Brazil, logistics functions are increasingly outsourced to focus on core competencies and remain competitive. For supply chain executives in Brazil, the greatest challenge is total landed costs of importing products into the country... Doosan Outsources Non-Core Procurement to Drive EfficiencyDoosan Infracore Construction Equipment (DICE) has teamed with procurement outsourcing specialist ICG Commerce in an attempt to drive significant cost savings across non-core spending... Democratic Senators Push for New Freight ProgramLegislation promoting the FREIGHT Act of 2010 targets investment in efficient, clean, multimodal infrastructure for the movement of goods... Material Handling Management Headlines
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