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More Versatile Robots Needed
Robots play a key role in many large distribution center operations. However, the recent omnichannel trend in retail has exposed a need for more versatile automation.
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Procurement Changes on the Way
Procurement is continuing to evolve. According to the article by Jason Busch on Spend Matters, it's going to really change between now and 2020.
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Keep It Flowing
Keeping things moving, whether it's an order picker in your warehouse or the activities in your project plan, is a basic tenet of business. It's also one of the key principles in Lean.
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Pulling Back the Supply Chain Curtain
Issues related to supply chains have been all over the news recently, whether there's a factory fire or other disaster at foreign manufacturers that damages a known consumer brand.
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Lean Essentials
There's a lot involved in Lean, so much that it's sometimes necessary to review what the essential concepts and tools are that are critical to the approach.
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New Competition for EDI
We typically stay away from puff pieces on web site sponsors, but the Spend Matters group is introducing a new player who we'll likely be hearing a lot from in the future.
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Big Data Growth Forecasted
IDC has completed some research on Big Data for SAP. Both explosive growth and huge opportunity are forecasted.
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Cloud Strategy
Rob Fox, on the Network World site, takes on the topic of cloud integration. Understanding complexity is a key element of any strategy.
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Reasons for Lack of CI Adoption
Continuous improvement techniques have had great success across all types and sizes of businesses. Yet, some haven't adopted CI. Why is that?
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A Procurement Challenge
Thomas Kase on the Coupa site has an interesting take on one of the challenges facing the procurement function, that of controlling the 'spend' from areas like marketing.
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