The Brief – September 28 2016

Published on: September 28, 2016
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Profitable Fulfillment, Retail RFID Roadmap, Autodesk Accelerate, SMARTRAC /Catalyst acquisition

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Best practices, technology, and new takes on critical business topics from ChainLink Research

Wednesday, September 28, 2016 – Published once or twice each month.

Profitable Fulfillment: Part Three — Enabling Capabilities

By Bill McBeath

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

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Profitable fulfillment can be enabled through a combination of 1) precise, network-wide visibility, 2) network orchestration capabilities, and 3) networked order management. Here we describe what these capabilities mean in practice. [ Read: Profitable Fulfillment: Part Three — Enabling Capabilities ]

Diverse Use Cases at Autodesk Accelerate 2016

By Bill McBeath

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

The use cases on display at Autodesk’s Accelerate 2016 showed the breadth of capabilities for their PLM suite. [ Read: Diverse Use Cases at Autodesk Accelerate 2016 ]

Another RFID Company Tags Retail Sector Software

By Ann Grackin

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

In a continued validation of software and solutions as a key factor in a successful RFID business, SMARTRAC has purchased Catalyst. [ Read: Another RFID Company Tags Retail Sector Software ]

Road to Value for RFID in Retail: Part Three — Retailer’s RFID Roadmap

By Bill McBeath

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

We describe a roadmap that starts with the high ROI use case of inventory management, using flexible/low-capital infrastructure, and then builds on that investment to implement other use cases to create further value, in areas such as omni-channel, display management, supply chain, and loss prevention. [ Read: Road to Value for RFID in Retail: Part Three — Retailer’s RFID Roadmap ]

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