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