In an era of mega-warehouses and distribution centres (think Amazon, Walmart, Target, Tesco, NASA, Boeing, Airbus), keeping track of millions of assets, products, parts and components, and taking stock of inventory, can be a consuming job, even with the help of RFID. One of the...
How is it that a St George Bank computer monitor, destined for recycling within Australia, turns up on a toxic e-waste dump in West Africa being pulled apart by young children? According to this ABC news article, it appears no one really knows the answer....
Today’s global marketplace offers us access to more products, through more channels, than ever before. This convenience, however, comes at a cost. It’s resulted in complex, fragmented supply chains, with less end-to-end visibility, making the origins of parts very difficult to trace – opening the...
A new audit report on the U.S. Department of Defense [DoD] has called for urgent action to improve the tracking and accountability of more than 747,000 in weapons and equipment [approx. value US$626 million] supplied to Afghan National Security Forces [ANSF] since 2004, sparking fears...
Organisations are starting to tap into the information gathered by crowds to help solve seemingly insurmountable problems in faster and more cost-effective ways. Read More
