Air Liquide, a provider of gases for industry, health and the environment, has been awarded a contract to supply the hydrogen, filling station and infrastructure to power retail giant Walmart's new fleet of fuel cell-powered lift trucks at its new distribution center in Alberta, Canada.

The importance of information to the success of supply chains is stronger than ever given economic conditions. Information is what links every node and enterprise of a supply chain. And that's where supply chain execution software and related data capture technologies come into the picture.

OM HealthCare Logistics, a new business unit of Owens & Minor, a distributor of medical and surgical supplies, has adopted RedPrairie's Warehouse Management solution to direct operations over its flagship third-party logistics distribution center.

Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS), operator of a pallet rental service providing all-plastic pallets with embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, has funded the planting of 200,000 new trees in the Deschutes National Forest in central Oregon, an area in serious need of reforestation.

Apria Healthcare uses lean principles and pallet stackers to improve capacity utilization at its DCs.

DataMatrix barcodes provide a solution for packing data into small spaces on packaging.

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