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A New Take on Risk
Everyone tries to avoid risk. Is that wise, or are there alternative approaches that work? As usual, Jason Busch from Spend Matters has a unique view.
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The Supply Chain Hierarchy
Everyone who's taken Psyc101 is familiar with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. On the EBN site, Ken Bradley has developed a Supply Chain Hierarchy of Needs and addresses the top two layers in a recent article.
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Do You Poka Yoke?
Eliminating mistakes is a worthy undertaking. It's not always successful, but one of the cornerstones of continuous improvement, Poka Yoke or 'mistake proofing', can be used to reduce and eliminate errors in a process.
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Supply Chain Software Evolution
Systems continue to evolve to meet rapidly changing requirements, and Supply Chain Execution is certainly shifting. John Sidell on the Logistics Viewpoints site discusses how best-of-breed, WMS, TM, and other supply chain systems have changed.
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SAP's HANA Plans
The Cloud and SAP's introduction of the HANA technology seem to be informing most SAP related decisons nowadays.
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MRO Market Disruption
In an article on the Supply House Times site, Dick Friedman takes a look at how Google and Amazon have affected the MRO market.
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Mapping Your Supply Chain
Mapping the supply chain sounds like a great idea, but is it really practical? It can be done, and some tips are out there to help.
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Re-starting Your Lean Journey
Lean is almost always a successful method of continuous improvement. However, its implementation in businesses isn't always a success. Sometimes you need a re-start.
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Driving P2P Acceptance
Adoption is always a big issue for both providers and users of P2P systems. Are there some steps that can make it easier?
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Big Data Issues
When the Washington Post weighs in with an opinion, you know Big Data has truly made the hype list. In a recent piece, Samuel Arbesman discusses some myths about the technology.
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