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Improve Your Reputation
Remeber the old days, when supply chain was 'back office' type work? Well, Viktoria Sadlovska, Research Director at Reputation Institute, thinks those days are long gone. Supply chains can now be competitive differentiators and a mis-step can sully a company's reputation.
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Personality in Procurement
Do you have what it takes to move ahead in Procurement? Pierre Mitchell, on the Chief Procurement Officer site, explains why he thinks your personality may have a big impact on your individual and group performance.
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A History Lesson for Supply Chains
You don't often hear Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler mentioned in a supply chain article, but Jim LeTart on the Supply Chain Nation site pulls it off. He's interested in how tyranny was addressed in the past and how the current tyrant in the market, the consumer, will be 'appeased'.
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Location Aware Applications on the Way
Location aware services are one of the great strides taken by technology over the past few years. Supply chain software in the TMS realm is beginning to utilize them to an ever greater extent.
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Supply Chain Disruptions in 2014
The folks on the Supply Chain Brain site have been tracking supply chain disruptions for years. To me, 2014 seemed pretty calm, but they've identified several significant events that impacted suppliers worldwide.
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L'Oreal's Supply Chain Leadership
I'm a big believer in using case studies of industry leaders to identify best practices. We're lucky that Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, is likewise interested.
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Small Data is Big News
Big data is big news, but you know what might be even bigger? Small data. It's what'll be powering the Internet of Things (IoT).
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3DP to the Rescue
A technology with the potential to disrupt at least part of the supply chain, 3D printing (3DP), is being looked at as a potential solution to end-of-life (EOL) part situations. Seems like a natural fit and is obviously an improvement over other alternatives.
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Purchasing Metrics
On the My Purchasing Center site, Paulo Moretti takes us back to basics in reviewing the metrics for procurement. As they say, if you can't measure it, you can't manage it....
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Tech and Retail
In a fine article on the Boston Consulting Group site, Peter Burggraaff, Marc Schuuring, and Bill Urda look at how technology is moving increasingly into the retail space.
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