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Big Data Questions
We're all over the place on Big Data as it proceeds through the hype cycle. On the Wired site, Simon Moss takes a shot at telling us where it's valuable and where it may not be.
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Outsourcing Procurement?
Outsourcing has affected departments and industries across the board. But when you look at outsourcing, it's a slightly different animal. Other considerations besides cost need to be taken into account.
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Keeping it Simple
Complexity is bad, simplicity is good, right? I think we'd all agree that finding ways to simplify your processes, technology, and communication is a lofty goal.
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Omnichannel Inventory Changes
Optimizing inventory for an individual channel is a real challenge, especially in the apparel industry. When you layer on the demands of the omnichannel consumers, it increase complexity immensely.
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Valuing IoT
The IOT (Internet of Things) train continues to chug along. It's not just a buzzword, though- real, quantifiable value is being created.
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Improve Your Chances of Project Success
Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, provides some interesting statistics on the success rate of IT projects in a recent post on her site. Looks like your chances of meeting objectives are roughly a coin flip.
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Churn Your Supply Chain Talent
Finding the best and brightest talent to support supply chains has been an area of focus in 2014 and seems to be even more critical moving forward. Do you look inside or outside? What are the advantages and disadvantages?
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The Talent Search
One of this year's themes in supply chain communications is the search for talent. Spend Matters weighs in on the topic in a recent article on their site. Are external candidates the way to go, or should companies look internally first?
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Talking SMAC
Trevor Miles, on the 21st Century Supply Chain site, wants to SMAC you around. For the acronym-challenged, SMAC stands for Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud.
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Making Purchasing More Strategic
There are lots of opportunities for purchasing to have more of an impact on company performance. The key is to become so fundamentally strong that 'next moves' become more strategic.
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