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Achieving Sustainability: From Waste Management to Light Bulbs
Sustainability can involve a global effort to calculate carbon emissions across the entire supply chain. Or it can mean the changing of a few light bulbs.
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Why Quality Is More Than a Passing Fad
Total Quality Management. Quality circles. Quality with a capital "Q." It all seems so...20th Century.
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Kimberly-Clark's Epic Demand-Driven Journey
"Frankly, we thought we were a lot better than we were." Could those be the scariest words in business?
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Bridging the Talent Gap in Supply-Chain Management
Despite gradual improvement since the summer of 2009 - the official end of the Great Recession - the U.S. unemployment rate remains unacceptably high. But don't tell that to companies in search of supply-chain talent.
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Taking a Snapshot of U.S. Manufacturing
Surveys are snapshots. They don't tell you what respondents were thinking a year earlier, or a day later. They offer up opinions that are frozen in time.
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Can American Manufacturers Compete With the Chinese - in China?
So the Chinese are gearing up to sell their branded merchandise in the U.S. But what about the other way around? Can American manufacturers capture a healthy share of China's burgeoning consumer market?
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Coming Soon to America: Chinese-Branded Merchandise
Chinese brands are aiming for a hefty slice of the U.S. consumer market. And they're liable to succeed a lot more quickly than you might think.
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For Buyers and Suppliers, Supply-Chain Finance Pays Off
With every crisis comes opportunity. The Great Recession, which choked off access to capital and placed suppliers around the world in economic jeopardy, triggered the growth of supply-chain finance programs, benefiting suppliers and buyers alike.
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How to Stop Cargo Theft From Stealing Your Profits
Movie heists often involve sophisticated tools and brilliant plans that depend on crack timing in order to succeed. Not so in real life.
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The U.S. Merchant Marine Is Foundering. Should We Care?
More than 30 years ago, when I began writing about transportation and logistics, one of the first pieces that I did was about the imminent demise of the U.S. merchant marine. Today, I find myself addressing the same issue. As industries go, this has got to be one of the slowest deaths on record.
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Making the Case for a National Infrastructure Bank
The nation's transportation infrastructure is in dire shape.
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Are Cloud Applications a Cybersecurity Threat?
To be a corporate I.T. professional today, you have to be obsessed with cybersecurity. A line on your resume should read "paranoid tendencies." Because somebody really is out to get you - or, at least, your company's proprietary information.
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