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Supply Chain Reality: Much Risk Tied Up in Shrinking Pool of Suppliers - 0 views

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    Today's companies have better supply chain apps than ever before -- but they also face bigger risks. Many large enterprises use the same, small pool of supplier companies, so the ripples from one recession-related sinkage can spread far and wide.
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CAPS Updates Cross-Industry Report of Standard Benchmarks - 0 views

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    Adds metrics for percent of supply management employees that are strategic or operational, employee retention rates, and purchase order cycle time for both direct goods and indirect goods
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Supply Chain & Logistics Roadshow in Chongqing - 0 views

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    Supply Chain & Logistics Roadshow in Chongqing - contact Echo SUN at 25-Mar-10 7:30 AM calendar event on Supply Chain Logistics Procurement Sourcing in Asia China
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CombineNet Home - 0 views

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    CombineNet : Advanced Sourcing Technology - The Optimal Solution
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Global Supply Chain Management Forum: Stanford GSB - 0 views

  • The Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum is a leading research institute in partnership with industry and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University that advances the theory and practice of excellence in global supply chain management. Working with approximately 25 industrial organizations, the Forum is actively engaged with a broad cross-section of leading and emerging industries to identify, document, research, develop, and disseminate best practices in a dynamic and increasingly global economic business environment.
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Responsible Supply Chain Conference: Stanford GSB - 0 views

  • “Collaboration” is a supply chain buzzword that people often talk about in theory but rarely implement in practice. And yet smart organizations have found big payoffs in collaborations that not only share costs and risks but also rewards.
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A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) - Fourth E... - 1 views

  • The PMBOK® Guide–Fourth Edition continues the tradition of excellence in project management with a standard that is even easier to understand and implement, with improved consistency and greater clarification.
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Amazon.com: Fix Your Supply Chain: How to Create a Sustainable Lean Improvement Roadmap - 0 views

  • Operational excellence is required to make any winning business strategy sustainable, but it is only achieved and sustained through continuous improvement, and these improvements must be real. This book will arm you with the knowledge and methods needed to identify needed change and the tools to implement them, and perhaps most importantly, give you the confidence needed to become an effective change agent.
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Amazon.com: Closed-Loop Supply Chains: New Developments to Improve the Sustainability o... - 0 views

  • A complete presentation of closed loop supply chain processes, this book demonstrates the impact it has on all aspect of the supply chain, from product development, to materials, to assembly and profitability. It includes research and case studies from the industries that use the closed loop supply chain methodology and explores how they use its practices to be more environmentally friendly and profitable. The authors cover profitable practices in returned products and recovery of products, designing the reverse logistics network, production planning, marketing strategies for recovered products, and how closed loop supply chain strategies can be used in industries other than manufacturing.
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ISO release new RFID standard for supply chain applications - 0 views

  • The International Organization for Standardization has declared a new standardization in supply chain applications that will help manufacturers and distributors to better track products and to securely manage traceability with RFID tags.
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Benchmark the purchasing function - 0 views

  • Compare performance with other companies by using this quantitative diagnostic tool created to evaluate the purchasing function. The tool examines 39 performance measures in 4 key areas:
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10Minutes on sustainable cost reduction and cost management - 0 views

  • Companies are justifiably anxious to reduce costs. But the problem with many cost-cutting measures is that they are put into practice without considering their sustainability. Often, cost savings achieved in the short term eventually leak away. The failed cost reduction initiatives wind up damaging corporate infrastructure and culture, leaving companies struggling well after the recession ends.
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10Minutes on supply chain risk management - 0 views

  • PwC explores how global supply chains are being tested by major upheavals in the world economy. The financial crisis is taking a heavy toll on worldwide manufacturing activity, and with credit becoming tight and consumer demand collapsing, bankruptcies have risen at an alarming rate.
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Boston Scientific develops supplier risk management program - 2009-02-12 02:00:00 EST |... - 0 views

  • The concept of supplier risk management is still relatively new, as business strategies go. But in the era of global sourcing and volatile markets, supplier risk management is rapidly becoming every bit as necessary to global supply chains as in-house corporate risk management.
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Silicon Valley in Danger of Losing Competitive Edge - 1 views

  • Silicon Valley, facing a slowdown in innovation and a shortage of funding, may lose its competitive advantage to emerging U.S. technology hotbeds such as Huntsville, Alabama, and Washington, D.C., a study found.
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Silicon Valley Faces Tough Climb Back from Recession - 2 views

  • The comprehensive yearly study on the economic strength and overall health of Silicon Valley reveals that rapid economic growth in other countries, coupled with California’s legislative gridlock, is draining the lifeblood of funding and foreign talent from Silicon Valley, leaving recovery in a "new phase of uncertainty."
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Modern Supply-Chain Risk Management - 0 views

  • Comprehensive supply-chain risk management plays an important strategic role in the operation of successful businesses, protecting their most valuable assets while creating a unified, high-performance risk mitigation model.
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