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Amazon and Real-Time Delivery
Amazon.com never fails to draw interest when it makes a move of any kind. Most recently, their interest in developing a real-time delivery model has lots of supply chain folks wondering where it's heading.
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Procurement Trends for 2016
Predictions abound this time of year. Susan Avery takes a shot at what we might see in the procurement arena in 2016 in an article on the My Purchasing Center site.
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Survey Shows Increase in Reshoring
In the 'Good News for a Change' category, recent research by BCG points to an increase in the reshoring of manufacturing. According to the data, the number of suppliers bringing their production back to the US has increased by 250 percent since 2012.
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Uncovering Spend Management Opportunities
Managing supplier spend is at the core of the procurement function. The more information available to management to help them perform, the better.
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Are ERP Systems Dinosaurs?
Remember when ERP systems represented 'new' technology? Could it be that they're now the legacy dinosaurs of IT?
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3D Printing and the Supply Chain
3D printing (3DP) is a technology we've followed closely for the past couple years. It's pretty cool stuff, but how does it affect the supply chain?
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Visibility Research Results
Visibility is always top of mind for supply chain managers. However, recent research by the Business Continuity Institute and Zurich Insurance shows a troubling lack of it, with disruptions and confusion resulting.
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Supply Chain Sustainability Survey Results
The topic of supply chain sustainability seems to wax and wane in popularity, but it's apparent sustainability is no longer considered a 'luxury'.
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Urgent B2B Needs
B2B companies have identified a few items on their technology Christmas list they'd like to receive. There are not only new technologies popping up and convergence between them becoming more common, but the existing stuff is getting a bit dated as well.
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Automation and Our Jobs
Let's face it, a lot of us who have worked in ecommerce and procurement have jobs based on automation. However, in our own shops there's often resistance to it from a number of sources.
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