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Keys to Supply Chain Leadership

The Supply Chain Shaman, Lora Cecere, has learned a lot about leadership over the years. She summarizes her key learnings in a nice holiday article. Read more...

Selling Procurement

In the ongoing quest to become more strategic, perhaps procurement can take some cues from the sales team. Defining and selling value is the key. Read more...

Big Data Trumps Big Research

Will Big Data put traditional research methods out of business? Or is there room for both approaches? Read more...

What Are Supplier Networks?

In the latest of his "Plain English' series, Jason Busch from Spend Matters attempts to explain what supplier networks do and don't do. He's keeping it simple, which is always laudable. Read more...

Globalization and the Supply Chain

In an article on the Manufacturing.net site by Jeff Reinke, we see a summary of questions and answers related to globalization and the supply chain. Read more...

Amazon's Drones

By this time, you've probably seen the clips of Amazon's newest attempt to address the 'last-mile' challenge. Are drones really the way to go, or is this just a brilliant marketing ploy by Bezos to take the spotlight off of Amazon's labor problems? Read more...

Changes Driven by eCommerce

In an article on the Area Development On-Line site, John Morris and Alexander Frei discuss the changes to the physical landscape being driven by ecommerce growth. Read more...

Simplify the Complex

Managing complexity isn't getting any easier. A fellow by the name of Peter Drucker used to be an expert at it and was willing to share his expertise. Read more...

Healthcare.gov Plumbing

Josh Brown, on the EBridge blog site, makes one of the biggest understatements in history regarding the need to have more testing on the Healthcare.gov site prior to go-live. Those of us who have been through large projects with EDI involvement know that you can never test enough. Read more...

Hot Logistics

In a recent DC Velocity article, Susan Lacefield describes the emergence of 3 new logistics hotspots in the western half of the country. When you look at the prevalence of ports and DC's in the Central/Southern California region, you'd normally assume the hotspots would be nearby. Read more...

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