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Food Supply Chains in 2015: A Banquet of Risk

The food industry has a lot on its plate these days.

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Bankruptcy Looms as Bulk Carriers' Earnings Take Hit

The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, slid to an all-time low on Monday as sluggish cargo demand - especially from China - battered sentiment.

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Aras Expands PLM Mobile Tool; Updates Platform With Visual Collaboration

Aras, a provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software, has released Aras Flow, an integrated mobile tablet application for Aras Innovator 11.

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Oracle Enhances User Experience for PS Financials, Supply Chain

Oracle Corp. has developed a simplified user experience for its PeopleSoft Financials and PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management applications.

Why Procurement Is No Longer Just a Numbers Game

We've heard it before: chief procurement officers aren't just cost-cutters. They're contributing real value to the organization. But is that really true?

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PrimeRevenue Releases New Version of SCiSupplier Platform

PrimeRevenue Inc., a provider of applications to support financial supply chains, has released Version 6.0 of its SCiSupplier platform.

'De-costing' Programs May Save Manufacturers Huge Sums

U.S. manufacturing executives have an opportunity to make their factories even more competitive through parts and components de-costing programs. De-costing is simply a term that refers to removing cost from operations period-over-period. Parts and components usage is a great place to focus because improvements can provide such clear returns.

E-commerce Logistics Models Criticized as Unsustainable

The present business models being employed by e-retailers and their shipping partners are becoming increasingly unsustainable, according to a report from Transport Intelligence, a research and analysis firm focusing on the global logistics industry.

How the Company Bean Counter Can Really Demonstrate His or Her Value

Brian Holland, the CFO and president of Fleet Advantage, a truck leasing and big data firm, was trying to put his finger on what it means to be a finance chief at the kind of fast-growing, sales-driven companies that have employed him over his more than 20-year career. And then he thought of something a former boss had said to him: “You’re one of the few bean counters that I can even stand to be around.”

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Should Centralized Procurement Give Way to 'Specialist' Purchasing in Some Units?

Organisation-wide purchasing is often the responsibility of the procurement team with the business reliant on them to source the right goods and services at the best price. But different departments within an organisation will often have very specific and specialist requirements and there are significant merits in empowering selected personnel to source exactly what they need, when they need it.

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Walmart, Amazon Duke It Out on Price Optimization

Price optimization is the next frontier on the retail battle lines, with Walmart and Amazon waging a fierce battle to best each other on price. It's a fight that Amazon is winning thanks to its pricing strategy, according to the Price Perception Index (PPI) for digital retail.

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Is China Manipulating Its Currency?

Is China guilty, as charged by U.S. traders, of keeping its currency artificially weak?

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