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Supply Chain Visibility at Crate & Barrel
Big companies with global supply chains are great sources for information on how to address sticky problems. Crate & Barrel thinks supply chain visibility is an issue, so they're taking significant steps to address it.
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eProcurement Market Analysis
Jason Busch and Pierre Mitchell at Spend Matters take a critical look at what's going on in the eProcurement (P2P) market. With consolidation and new players happening on what seems to be a daily basis, they maintain there's no real market leader.
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Key Supply Chain Events of 2013
Usually, this is the time of year when predictions are made. The Supply Chain Digest feels it's also important to review what happened during the past year.
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The Risk of Innovation
Innovation is always good, right? When it drives your supply chain to its breaking point, the answer is no. Outsourcing, lean manufacturing, and JIT may sound good on the surface, but together they could put your supply chain at risk.
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Big Data in the Hiring Process
With the many actual and potential applications of Big Data constantly in the news, one approach that's a little under the radar is in the basic human resource functions of hiring and firing.
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2014 Procurement
It's not too late for 2014 predictions (though it's getting there...). In a 2 part series of articles on the eSourcing Forum site, Constantine Limberakis polishes up his crystal ball and tells us what he see happening in the Procurement space over the next few months.
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Tribal Knowledge and the Supply Chain
Just because you've always done business a certain way, it doesn't follow that you should continue to do so indefinitely. Many times the 'old ways' were based on 'tribal knowledge', which may be outdated.
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Visibility With PLM
In an article on the Apparel site, Chuck Cimalore looks at how Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) technology can support the need for greater visibility across the supply chain.
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How Lean Should We Be?
Being 'lean' is usually very desireable. However, it can be a target that may not be in your best interest to achieve.
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Holiday Delivery Issue Analysis
If you're one of the many on-line retail customers still steamed about a late delivery of holiday presents, you want to blame somebody. But who deserves your scorn? The store? UPS? FedEx?
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