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Omnichannel Inventory Changes

Optimizing inventory for an individual channel is a real challenge, especially in the apparel industry. When you layer on the demands of the omnichannel consumers, it increase complexity immensely. Read more...

Valuing IoT

The IOT (Internet of Things) train continues to chug along. It's not just a buzzword, though- real, quantifiable value is being created. Read more...

Improve Your Chances of Project Success

Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, provides some interesting statistics on the success rate of IT projects in a recent post on her site. Looks like your chances of meeting objectives are roughly a coin flip. Read more...

Churn Your Supply Chain Talent

Finding the best and brightest talent to support supply chains has been an area of focus in 2014 and seems to be even more critical moving forward. Do you look inside or outside? What are the advantages and disadvantages? Read more...

The Talent Search

One of this year's themes in supply chain communications is the search for talent. Spend Matters weighs in on the topic in a recent article on their site. Are external candidates the way to go, or should companies look internally first? Read more...

Talking SMAC

Trevor Miles, on the 21st Century Supply Chain site, wants to SMAC you around. For the acronym-challenged, SMAC stands for Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud. Read more...

Making Purchasing More Strategic

There are lots of opportunities for purchasing to have more of an impact on company performance. The key is to become so fundamentally strong that 'next moves' become more strategic. Read more...

The Amazon Store

Was it surprising to you to hear that Amazon is planning a new brick and mortar store? It should have been, according to Amy Bernstein on the Harvard Business Review blog site. Read more...

Supply Chain Planning and IoT

The Internet of Things (IoT) seems to be everywhere lately in technology news. Most articles are written at a high level, but occasionally we'll see one that has relevance to a supply chain problem we'd like to address. Read more...

Procurement Can Deliver Savings

What's the value in building a great procurement team? How about twice the cost savings as can be produced by a mediocre group? Those are the results published in a recent AT Kearney report. Read more...

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