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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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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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