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Hadoop It Up!

Almost everyone in the business world has heard the work 'Hadoop' in the last year, I'd bet. Do you know what it is and why it should mean something to you? Read more...

eSourcing Adoption Questions

In a Spend Matters article, Jeff Gilkerson from the Hackett Group looks at eSourcing tools and wonders why adoption and usage is so low. There's a lot involved in implementing such tools and processes, and the short answer to the adoption question seems to be that change is difficult. Read more...

Can Your ERP Handle New Tech?

New technologies in the business world don't just generate spontaneously. They usually need a strong base of transactional data on which their growth can be based. If that's the case, it's your ERP that can make or break your success. Read more...

Use Big Data to Provide Visibility

Supply chain visibility and Big Data are two hot topics. What if they can be leveraged by working together to provide even more value? It's possible, according to Larry Lewis on the Talking Logistics site. Read more...

Gartner's Supply Chain Insights

It's impossible to keep up with everything going on in the supply chain space. Gartner, though, usually has a great handle on current affairs. Paul Lord, on the Gartner site, describes a few of the themes from a recent round of executive briefings. Read more...

Do Best Practices Matter?

Almost everyone can recall being lectured about 'best practices' at one time or another. Sometimes it made sense, others not so much. Read more...

Improving Supply Chain Visibility

On the EBN site, Mathieu Guerville discusses a recent move by UL to address the issue of data flow among suppliers. Clean data being shared across the supply chain is a major key to quality and visibility, according to recent research by the Aberdeen and Gartner groups. Read more...

3PL's Add Services

3PLs have had a place in the logistics landscape for quite awhile. They're not standing still, though. Adrian Gonzalez thinks the word 'convergence' is an appropriate designation for how 3PLs are adding additional services to their traditional offering. Read more...

IoT Communication Needs

As the Internet of Things continues to move full speed ahead, some legitimate concerns over device compatability exist. As in, will they speak the same language? On the Economist site, we're able to take a look at how standardization is being approached and are give examples of how devices need to communicate. Read more...

New USPS Shipping Plans

In a development that makes too much sense, the USPS has cut its rates and is preparing to battle UPS and FedEx for ecommerce shipping leadership. Of course, for a perennial money loser like the post office, I guess we ought to adopt a wait-and-see attitude. Read more...

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