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More Versatile Robots Needed

Robots play a key role in many large distribution center operations. However, the recent omnichannel trend in retail has exposed a need for more versatile automation. Read more...

Procurement Changes on the Way

Procurement is continuing to evolve. According to the article by Jason Busch on Spend Matters, it's going to really change between now and 2020. Read more...

Keep It Flowing

Keeping things moving, whether it's an order picker in your warehouse or the activities in your project plan, is a basic tenet of business. It's also one of the key principles in Lean. Read more...

Pulling Back the Supply Chain Curtain

Issues related to supply chains have been all over the news recently, whether there's a factory fire or other disaster at foreign manufacturers that damages a known consumer brand. Read more...

Lean Essentials

There's a lot involved in Lean, so much that it's sometimes necessary to review what the essential concepts and tools are that are critical to the approach. Read more...

New Competition for EDI

We typically stay away from puff pieces on web site sponsors, but the Spend Matters group is introducing a new player who we'll likely be hearing a lot from in the future. Read more...

Big Data Growth Forecasted

IDC has completed some research on Big Data for SAP. Both explosive growth and huge opportunity are forecasted. Read more...

Cloud Strategy

Rob Fox, on the Network World site, takes on the topic of cloud integration. Understanding complexity is a key element of any strategy. Read more...

Reasons for Lack of CI Adoption

Continuous improvement techniques have had great success across all types and sizes of businesses. Yet, some haven't adopted CI. Why is that? Read more...

A Procurement Challenge

Thomas Kase on the Coupa site has an interesting take on one of the challenges facing the procurement function, that of controlling the 'spend' from areas like marketing. Read more...

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