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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. Read more...

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. Read more...

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. Read more...

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 Many times the 'old ways' were based on 'tribal knowledge', which may be outdated. Read more...

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. Read more...

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. Read more...

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? Read more...

Metrics to Drive Supply Chain Improvement

Talking metrics is one thing that excites the Supply Chain Shaman, Lora Cecere. In a recent article on her site, she interview Mattell's Global Supply Chain's EVP on the topic and shares the results with us. Read more...

AS2 Best Practices

"Traditional" EDI, using ANSI standards and transporting messages to and from a VAN, is just one of many options available for B2B electronic documents. Read more...

Performance Review Time!

It's that time of year: your performance review is coming up! If that's not enough to drive some indigestion and poor sleep, nothing is. You should tell your manager that BusinessWeek says they're really not effective. Read more...

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