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Using Big Data in Plant Operations

Mary Ramsey, on the Plant Engineering site, takes a look at how manufacturers can use Big Data to drive value in their organizations. It's much more than just capturing millions of data points- it's knowing what value is embedded in the information and extracting it. Read more...

Fixing the Supply Chain Talent Gap

Recent research from APQC provides some great information about the overall preparedness of supply chain talent. The relative importance of skills is likewise addressed. Read more...

Supplier Collaboration is Crucial

The value of supplier collaboration is undeniable. If that's the case, then why is it so hard to implement? Read more...

The Success Trap

Success is obviously a worthwhile goal, but it sometimes becomes a hazard to companies that aren't continuously improving. The great Peter Drucker examined this phenomena decades ago and his lessons are still valid. Read more...

P2P & e-invoicing, Part 2

In the latest installment of the mano a mano duel between Spend Matters' Jason Busch and Pierre Mitchell on the P2P & e-invoicing topic, Pierre takes another shot at selling the benefits of integrated technology. Read more...

Let's Get Some Clarity

As processes like outsourcing have made business more complex, supply chain visibility has suffered. It's tough to determine what you've done, what you're doing now, and what you'll be doing in the future. Read more...

Data Storage Growth Projection

In an Information Week article, Jeff Bertolucci provides a few scary thoughts about how big Big Data will be in the future. Enterprise-scale systems will may require storage so large that they'll need to invent new terms to describe their size. Read more...

Ownership of the P2P Process

A battle between a couple guys who really know P2P is taking place on the Spend Matters site. Should it be fully integrated across the process, or is separate P silos the way to go? Read more...

The Giants Go After IoT

We've told you that the Internet of Things (IoT) will be huge. When you read about Microsoft and Google muscling in, you know it's true. Read more...

The 3D Value Chain

The supply chain will be undergoing big changes in the upcoming year. With trends of big data, cloud, mobile, and social networking, that shouldn't be a surprise. Read more...

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