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Counterfeit Crisis: How Negligence Allows Tainted Goods to Enter the Supply Chain

Counterfeit Crisis: How Negligence Allows Tainted Goods to Enter the Supply Chain

16 Jan 2026

The global trade in counterfeit goods is a multi-billion-pound problem that poses significant risks to consumers and businesses. While criminal networks are responsible for producing these fakes, their success is often helped by negligence within the supply chain. When companies fail to exercise adequate due diligence, they can allow dangerous products to slip through the cracks and contaminate the market.

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How to Master Temperature Control in the Food Supply Chain

How to Master Temperature Control in the Food Supply Chain

14 Jan 2026

Temperature control is pivotal to preserving food quality. Any semblance of oversight or mismanagement can have lasting consequences for food distribution and storage facilities and warehouses, compounding the spoilage, waste and foodborne illness issues affecting the global economy. 

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How to Choose IT Solutions for Manufacturing

How to Choose IT Solutions for Manufacturing

13 Jan 2026

Choosing IT solutions for manufacturing means balancing uptime, security, and integration in one seamless system. The right choice can turn production data into a live decision engine, while the wrong one can grind output to a halt. Picture a plant where sensors flag issues before they cause downtime, operators track efficiency from tablets, and every system communicates without friction. That’s not distant future tech; it’s what happens when manufacturing IT is chosen with strategy, not habit. 

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Heavy Equipment Inventory Management: What It Involves and How to Do It

Heavy Equipment Inventory Management: What It Involves and How to Do It

12 Jan 2026

Heavy equipment inventory management is a cornerstone of efficient operations in industrial environments. When your business relies on machinery and specialised assets, the ability to track, control, and optimise those resources directly impacts your bottom line.

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Why Electric Material Handling Cuts 70% Warehouse Emissions

Why Electric Material Handling Cuts 70% Warehouse Emissions

06 Jan 2026

Warehouses consume massive amounts of energy, making green logistics a major challenge. Your company's carbon footprint grows with every activity from lighting and heating to material handling operations. Warehouse lighting alone makes up 65% of electricity usage in most cases.

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Modern Supplier Onboarding: Tools That Cut Delays and Improve Accuracy

Modern Supplier Onboarding: Tools That Cut Delays and Improve Accuracy

22 Dec 2025

Supplier onboarding should be the calm, orderly front door to a smooth supplier relationship. Yet somehow it usually feels more like rummaging through a junk drawer while everyone waits for you to find the one thing that’s definitely not in there.

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