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Managing Freight Payment: No Time to Slack Off
In the end, all outsourcing relationships are founded on trust. You can write a contract that drills down to the smallest details, but at some point you have to rely on the integrity of your partner. And when that trust is violated, the consequences can be severe.
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Sourcing and Procurement Comes of Age
Before the cloud - before the commercial internet - there were communications networks that linked manufacturers with their suppliers. How effective they were is another matter entirely.
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Intermodal Thrives, While Long-haul Trucking Dives
Intermodal is on a roll.
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(Future) Nights of the S.F. Roundtable, Part Two
More predictions for the future of supply-chain management, courtesy of a panel of industry insiders at the fifth annual seer-fest sponsored by the San Francisco Roundtable of the Council of Supply-Chain Management Professionals:
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'Tis the Season: S.F. Roundtable Predicts the Future of SCM
Never mind those expert consultancies and handsomely compensated analysts who purport to tell us the future of supply-chain management. The real answers can be found in an event that's held once a year in the heart of Silicon Valley. With dinner thrown in as well.
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Labor Abuse in Asia: A Problem That Won't Go Away
It's no secret that working conditions in overseas factories are often miserable. Manufacturers and retailers, bombarded by decades of public outcry, have had plenty of time to do something about it. So why are we still having this discussion?
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Anatomy of a Trade-Compliance Program
All the best intentions in the world can't guarantee that a company is complying with the volumes of laws and regulations that govern international trade.
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U.S. Cellular Goes High-Tech With Demand Planning
The wireless telecommunications business is, to put it mildly, competitive.
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Fewer Hours, Fewer Drivers: What's a Trucker to Do?
Trucking companies say they're feeling the pinch from the new Hours of Service (HOS) restrictions imposed on them earlier this year. But the industry was already suffering from an acute driver shortage before it shouldered that additional burden.
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Riding the Peaks and Valleys of Retail Demand
Black Friday looms, and with it the onset of the year's peak retail shopping season.
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Too Many SKUs? How Clorox Avoids Supply-Chain Chaos
Life in the laundry room used to be so simple.
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SKU Proliferation: Is There a Cure for the Disease?
Retail marketers love complexity. The more variations of a product they can sell, the happier they are. How else can they command all that shelf real estate in big-box stores? How else can they promote innovation? And how else can they drive their supply-chain managers crazy?
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