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• Midwest Business Activity Expanded in December

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  An industry association reported that the expansion exceeded forecasts, hitting an almost four-year high.
  23 hours ago

• Citi Recommends Increasing Liquidity Ratios Through Collaboration

  
  Supply Excellence — Authority: 120
  Last week, Peter Smith, VP at Citi Global Transaction Services, hosted the webinar “Leading Strategies in Cash Disbursements” and presented some very interesting findings ( replay here ). Recent research by Citi shows that we are coming into a ‘recovery’ period, with the markets rewarding companies with high ...
  1 week ago

• Procurement bottlenecks - whose fault and can they be fixed?

  
  Malaria Matters — Authority: 125
  Roger Bate and colleagues (Tren, Hess and Bate, 2009) are again challenging us to face up to problems with the procurement, supply and quality of malaria control medicines and commodities. Their article that appeared yesterday in Malaria Journal questions whether efforts to get supplies from the lowest price bidder ...
  1 week ago

• Now Hiring: Temp Hiring Surge Reveals “Wait and See” Approach

  
  Supply Excellence — Authority: 120
  The Sunday New York Times reported on a surge in temp labor hiring. Indeed, the November temporary labor hiring numbers were relatively strong. To quote the Times: “Last month 52,000 temps were added, greater than the number of new workers in any other category. Not even health care and government, stalwarts ...
  1 week ago

• A real-world take on Supply Risk from someone who’s done it

  
  Supply Excellence — Authority: 120
  Our friend Dr. Uwe Schulte has an interesting approach to Supply Risk that he articulates over on Procurement Leaders . From his real-world experience in dealing with this issue, Dr. Schulte’s advice is both timely and definitely worth heeding. There two important points here: We’re hearing from many ...
  1 week ago

• “Why are Procurement Managers reluctant to provide feedback after a bid process?”

  
  Supply Excellence — Authority: 120
  A sales manager recently asked the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Group on LinkedIn: “What is the major reason as to why Procurement Managers are reluctant to provide feedback or feedback is minimal after a bid process?” Indeed companies are often reluctant to help suppliers learn from their ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lessons Learned from the Recession: Supply Risk

  
  Supply Excellence — Authority: 120
  The global financial crisis has taken supply risk to a new level. More than 75,000 businesses in the US have filed for bankruptcy since the beginning of 2008 and the number is expected to rise again this year. Credit remains extremely tight. Inventory and capacity reductions, layoffs and hiring freezes have reduced ...
  2 weeks ago

• Economic Recovery Continues in 2010

  
  Ad Operations Online — Authority: 489
  Manufacturing Growth Expected in 2010; Revenue to Increase 5.7%; Capital Expenditures to Decrease 4%; Capacity Utilization Currently at 70.1%Non-Manufacturing to Maintain Slight Growth; Revenue to Increase 1.3%; Capital Expenditures to Decrease 6.7%; Capacity Utilization Currently at 81.3%TEMPE, Ariz. – Economic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sierra Leone - malaria emergency

  
  Malaria Matters — Authority: 125
  The United Nations’ humanitarian news agency, IRIN, headlines an “Appeal for aid as malaria ‘emergency’ looms.” Apparently there has been an upsurge in malaria deaths among children.IRIN says that WHO and Unicef “are ‘urgently’ appealing for 1.3 million bednets, as well as anti-malaria drugs, at a cost ...
  2 weeks ago

• How many links are in your supply chain?

  
  The 21st Century Supply Chain — Authority: 121
  Many supply chains have more links in them than is initially evident.  The time it takes for information to flow up and down the supply chain can be directly proportional to the number of these links.  Moreover, some of these links in the supply chain can distort, as well as delay the information that needs to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Managing Supplier Relationships in the New Normal

  
  Supply Excellence — Authority: 120
  Coming out of the global economic crisis, a new business climate is taking shape that will permanently change the way organizations need to deal with Buyer-Supplier Relationships. The old normal was a world where credit was freely available. In the new normal credit will no longer be easy and we’re going to face an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why cant we all just get along?

  
  The 21st Century Supply Chain — Authority: 121
  I was talking to a Contract Manufacturing company the other day and discovered an interesting  predicament. A hot-button issue for this Contract Manufacturer (and others I’ve talked to as well)  is the need to get better information from the Brand Owner about how the product is selling to the end customer.  ...
  2 weeks ago

• That one simple thing to improve responding to change

  
  The 21st Century Supply Chain — Authority: 121
  As an integration consultant, I have worked with a variety of manufacturers implementing supply chain planning and response management applications.  What I have noticed is that at many of the manufacturers, not all, there are many past due purchase order (PO) schedules in their ERP system.  Obviously, when a PO ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tata Swach: Affordable drinking water for the masses

  
  Supply Excellence — Authority: 120
  Innovation seems to be pouring out of the Tata Group at a very rapid clip. The Tata Nano, which relied heavily on the company’s suppliers for their cost savings and creativity , raised the proverbial innovation bar by dramatically lowering the cost of an automobile thus making them available to a larger portion of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Manufacturing jobs returning to the US. Are they here to stay?

  
  Supply Excellence — Authority: 120
  In the context of last week’s surprisingly positive job numbers (so surprising in fact that President Obama had to do a last minute rewrite to his speech Friday), two news stories have shared additional good news for US manufacturing. They’re largely anecdotal evidence, but perhaps they show a return of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Companies are requesting energy/greenhouse gas data from their suppliers. Are you ready for that?

  
  The 21st Century Supply Chain — Authority: 121
  I just a read an IndustryWeek article that reviewed a recent Siemens / McGraw-Hill sustainability survey.   As the Copenhagen climate conference begins and the political rhetoric becomes louder each day, it is interesting that there are leading corporations ahead of the curve; early-adopters of  green ...
  3 weeks ago

• What direction will buyer-supplier relationships move in the future?

  
  Supply Excellence — Authority: 120
  For the past few weeks in the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Group on LinkedIn, members have been debating: “What direction do you think buyer-supplier relationship is likely to move in the future?” Lots of perspective, opinions and advice. A few of the highlights … Collaboration is key ...
  3 weeks ago

• Terence Corcoran: Milked again

  
  FP Comment — Authority: 681
  Since 1994, milk prices have risen 58%, but the cost of milk production has only climbed 5.3% By Terence Corcoran T  he annual milking of dairy product consumers took place in Ottawa yesterday, a ritual that involves running average Canadians through the streets of the capital chased by price-fixing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Daily Market Notes December 4 , 2009 of ISM and ISM

  
  Finance Manila - Philippines, business, tech, travel, life in the metro — Authority: 130
  PSEi   3,061.99         DOWN   28.92value php     2,376,795,480.00DOW    86.53 -0.83% 10,366.15NASDAQ 11.89 -0.54% 2,173.14S&P 500   9.32 -0.84% 1,099.9The (ISM) Institute for Supply Management’s index of non- manufacturing businesses in the U.S. — almost 90 percent of the world’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• Service sector shrinks unexpectedly in November

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 767
  Filed under: Economy The U.S. economy hit an unexpected pothole on the road to recovery last month, as the Institute for Supply Managements Non-Manufacturing Index fell to 48.7 in November from 50.6 in October, the ISM announced Thursday. Readings above 50 indicate an expansion; below 50, a contraction. It was ...
  4 weeks ago

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