- 21. Data That's Meant to be Share
- (Management)
- ... McFarland at Santa Clara University, done in 2012 aims at using transaction data for profiling of individuals - something that has been in the news recently. But the same issues and capabilities apply ...
- 22. Big Uses for Big Data
- (Technology)
- ... article (Big Data: The Management Revolution, October 2012), 2.5 exabytes (an exabyte is a billion gigabytes) of data are created every single day. That’s incredible volume. From a velocity perspective, ...
- 23. Seven Strategies to Advance Your Career with Project Management
- (Management)
- ... Your Strengths - According to a 2012 Gallup survey, when Americans use their strengths more, they stress less. Still, the study finds, only 1 in 4 adults live and work in an area that capitalizes on their ...
- 24. Technical Supply Chain Risks
- (News)
- In a study of supply chain disruptions for the year 2012, a major risk factor has been identified. With all the hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other weather-related issues faced in the year, the ...
- 25. Want to Keep Pace with Ecommerce? Sign on to Integrated Electronic Product Catalogs
- (Retail)
- ... online consumers conducted late last year by technology research firm IDC, some 48 million U.S. shopper were expected to do this while they shopped in stores during the 2012 winter holiday season. IDC ...
- 26. Want to Outsource Warehouse Operations? Make Sure Real-time Data Sharing is Part of the Package
- (Logistics)
- ... a big boost. According to Armstrong & Associates, Inc., a supply chain management market research and consulting firm, the U.S. 3PL market will see revenues of $142.2 billion in 2012, up from $133.8 billion ...
- 27. Robots Are Running The Shipments
- (Logistics)
- ... in July 2012. Prior to everything was done manually and workers used static shelving and pallet racking systems for storage. Think Logistics did not lay off any of its workers when it brought Kiva in – ...
- 28. Want More Sales - Do Better at Customer Service
- (News)
- Forrester's Forrsights Software Survey for the last quarter of 2012 brought some interesting insights. William Band lays out the findings and his conclusions. Read his analysis here on William Band' ...
- 29. Cloud ERP Competitors
- (News)
- Think ERP isn't going anywhere? Well, at least some of it is moving to 'the cloud'. Who are the big players?In a NetWuite blog, Barney Beal takes us through the major competitors and what's happening with ...
- 30. Cliche' Your Way to Glory
- (News)
- Earlier in the week we looked at an article about cliche's that referenced an earlier piece by Eric Jackson on the topic. I thought I'd dig that one up- it's a few months old but pretty hilarious.Check ...
- 31. Robots are Driving 3PL Automation
- (Logistics)
- ... about Kiva Systems: in mid-2012, Amazon acquired the company for about $775 million. By that time, Kiva Systems was already in use by numerous e-commerce businesses, including Amazon. The “cool” factor ...
- 32. A Look at Ariba's Fee
- (News)
- Jason Busch on Spend Matters takes a more detailed look at how Ariba prices its offering. There are big differences based on invoice details. Check out this story to get a better feel for Ariba's fee structure ...
- 33. The Toughest Job
- (News)
- Leah McGuire gives us a cute comparison of a supply chain job to that of one form of people management most of us are probably familiar with.... Read her article in the 21st Century Supply Chain blog HERE. ...
- 34. Sir Richard's Lesson
- (News)
- It's always interesting to hear stories about legendary business leaders. A former employee of Sir Richard Branson at Virgin talks about his experiences on Gary Mintchell's Feed Forward site. Some of what ...
- 35. Top Retailers
- (News)
- Amu Dusto on the Internet Retailer site tells us who's at the top of the retail heap during the holiday season. The names are familiar, but the rankings have changed a bit. The name at the top, though, ...
- 36. Top Sustainability Stories of 2012
- (News)
- From scorecarding, to natural disasters, to reporting, supply chain sustainability was a hot topic over the past year. The Environmental Leader site provides a list of their top articles of 2012 on the ...
- 37. Supply Chain Innovation Award
- (News)
- When I think of supply chain innovation, I tend to think of technical topics. Supply Chain Brain's annual innovation award for supply chains went in a different direction. It's amazing to me how a different ...
- 38. Some New Resolutions
- (News)
- Tim McMahon is usually short and to the point in his 'A Lean Journey' blog. In his latest, he gives us a quick list of 3 resolutions for the new year. If you can nail these, you'll have a better year.... ...
- 39. Manufacturing Outlook
- (News)
- The results of the Manufacturing Outlook Survey by ASQ were covered recently by Manufacturing.net. Mitigating supply chain risk seems to be top-of-mind for many respondents. Read their summary HERE. ...
- 40. Supply Chain Transparency
- (News)
- Environmental and social aspects of supply chains used to be pretty much 'under the covers'. Not anymore. On the GreenBiz.com site, Mary Catherine O'Connor tells us how companies are becoming more transparent ...
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