Everyone reading this is a capable, smart, and skilled project manager, who is proud of managing the key stakeholder in each project with professionalism and finesse.  Do you bring this same care to managing the stakeholder in your personal life? Can you imagine how much smoother things would be if you did? Who are the important stakeholders in the project called “life”? Take a moment to think about that, as this is an important question.

Last week I attended the New England ECOM Fall conference and during the series of presentations there were a couple of speakers that talked on the topic of Vendor Compliance or Chargeback's assessed by retailers. One covered what their company implemented as a supplier to address and reduce the assessments of retailer chargebacks and the other shared that Compliance or Chargeback's can be a benefit to the supply chain process so I thought that I'd share my viewpoint on the topic; are Vendor Compliance chargebacks a benefit or a nuisance.  

If you build it, they will come…..this famous line has many origins - Field of Dreams movie, possible Teddy Roosevelt quote, thought to be a Jewish proverb.  This line is also a gateway into our industry.  When we build it, the transactions will come. 

The GS1 House Band visited the ec-bp.com booth at GS1 Connect 2012 and sang our old favorite song about ec-bp. Listen close to the lyrics.