We're seeing a lot more activity trying to manage in-motion inventory, direct it to the place it needs to be and avoid disaster areas.

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The idea is that rather than knowing that a delivery guy dropped ten cases of cola in the store, they'll know that five cases went on one end-of-aisle display and five cases went on another. They'll know how the product is moving through the store.

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They're exploring applications that go beyond the kind of warehouse and storeroom applications we've been talking about with retail mandates.

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Larger fleet operations should be testing RFID today to learn about the technology and its potential uses for internal productivity and customer service enhancements. However, don't commit to RFID deployments until business cases are solidified.

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Our research also confirms that based on recent enterprise sales of strategic Transportation Management solutions, Manhattan Associates is the current leader for complex transportation projects. Sales over the last 18-24 months indicate that they continue to gain market share and have attracted enterprises looking for new supply chain innovations.

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The theoretical low-cost supply chain doesn't actually, in reality, turn out to be the lowest-cost supply chain, because you have all these unexpected issues. Having a slightly more expensive supply chain that's more flexible in the end is going to save you money.

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We don't have nearly the amount of control, from a management perspective, in how to maximize a capital investment as we do in the domestic supply chain.

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