- 21. Automation Efforts by Manufacturers
- (News)
- Manufacturers are investing heavily in automation, but what's driving them? According to the MAPI Foundation, supply chain pressures have become a big influence.At a high level, investment will continue ...
- 22. Women in Procurement
- (News)
- There aren't enough women in supply chain roles, but that's changing a bit due to the influence of leaders like Mickey North Rizza. In a recent Spend Matters article, she explains her path and the importance ...
- 23. Beware the Shopper
- (Retail)
- ... report from 2015 shows that 8 out of 10 purchases made by retail shoppers are informed by some kind of digital information. With 80 percent of purchase decisions influenced by shopper research, their decisions ...
- 24. Combating the Executive Influencer
- (News)
- We've all seen it: a technology direction is being evaluated, and the big vendor who has your CEO's ear ends up influencing the decision. What do you do to avoid that situation with your eprocurement platform ...
- 25. Avoiding Holiday Shipping Bottlenecks
- (News)
- Bob Ferrari, on his Supply Chain Matters site, reviews steps being taken by the mega-parcel-deliverers (mainly, UPS and FedEx) to avoid a replay of last year's holiday shipping fiasco. Looks like they're ...
- 26. Moving to the Digital World - Still / Yet
- (Management)
- ... and can influence the technology that drives the supply chain to include the company's customers in their efforts to deliver complete supply chain visibility. In case you doubt that including customers ...
- 27. Are You a Chief?
- (Management)
- ... bears some serious thought. Karen's comments are below: "Understand your impact. When you become a C-level executive you immediately have a larger influence in the decision making process. You need to be ...
- 28. Research on Procurement Priorities
- (News)
- The Hackett Group recently presented this year's key issues for procurement, and the results show that priorities are changing. What used to be strictly driven by cost-avoidance is now focusing on issues ...
- 29. Seven Strategies to Advance Your Career with Project Management
- (Management)
- ... is. If you chose "A", then you want to live in a reality where you focus on your circle of influence, rather than your circle of concern. Your circle of influence comprises the things in your life that ...
- 30. Whole Body Learning
- (Management)
- ... refer to the gut as the “Second Brain” due to the extensive network of neurons that line our gut. According to a Scientific American article, “Think Twice: how the Gut’s “Second Brain” Influences Mood ...
- 31. WalMart Drives Sustainability Index
- (News)
- On the Investment Ideas site, the progress made by WalMart in implementing its Sustainability Index is highlighted. Although it's just one company, the influence of WalMart over supply chain sustainability ...
- 32. Claim Your Power
- (Management)
- ... have to rely on our likeability factor and ability to influence others (referent power). Let’s take a moment to delve a little further into each source of power and how you can use each, no matter where ...
- 33. Connecting Everything
- (Integration)
- A few months back, we slogged through predictions for trends that would affect businesses in 2013. Many or most of them have already impacted us, particularly those related to mobile technology and the ...
- 34. Procurement Leadership
- (News)
- Supply Chain Digest covers an IBM study that does its best to answer the question about how companies become procurement leaders in a recent article on the site.It's not simple, but some keys seem to be ...
- 35. Interpersonal Skills and You
- (Management)
- ... style differences. 5. Influencing – The skill of influence is very powerful, and can be used either destructively or productively. You, as a project manager with good intentions, have it in your greatest ...
- 36. The Consumer and the Supply Chain
- (News)
- The consumer's influence over the supply chain continues to grow, particularly in light of ecommerce activity. Anna Young on the EBN blog site tells us which factors are affected. See her article HERE. ...
- 37. B2B2C2B2B.... Huh?
- (News)
- It seems that B2C ecommerce continues to exert an influence on the B2B world. What used to seem like two different worlds isn't like that anymore. On the GXS blog site, Matthew Walker shares his thoughts ...
- 38. JCPenney "all-in": RFID, M-POS, Self-Checkout, Mor
- (Retail)
- ... Johnson for a serious effort. Executives are obliged, of course, to present a public image of leadership and influence, even when nothing more than inertia is happening. In JCP's case, though, there ...
- 39. JCPenney "all-in": RFID, M-POS, Self-Checkout, Mor
- (Retail)
- ... Johnson for a serious effort. Executives are obliged, of course, to present a public image of leadership and influence, even when nothing more than inertia is happening. In JCP's case, though, there ...
- 40. Procurement Influence
- (News)
- In his two part article on the E-Sourcing Forum site, David Henshall talks about why the Procurement function needs to be a strategic function integrated with the business. The risks of a non-integrated, ...
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