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Amazon Officially Pulls Out Of New York Headquarters

After rumors circulated last week that Amazon was rethinking its New York location for its headquarters, the company has officially pulled the plug.

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Emerging Technologies

Emerging Tech Divides Workforce

Technology is spreading throughout the workforce, leaving many people without jobs.

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How to Make Sense of Supplier Segmentation

Positive Purchasing

While the segmentation process determines who is important, it’s the outputs from segmentation, and specifically the basis upon which a supplier has been deemed important, that determine the degree and nature of intervention required.

Jonathan O'brien

Emerging Technologies

The Rise of the Next-Gen CIO

An outlook on the changing role of the chief information officer in the digital age.

Dan Albright

C.R. England Announces Second Driver Pay Increase

C.R. England Inc.

This is the company's second multi-million dollar driver pay increase in the last eight months.

Supply Chain Education

The Association for Supply Chain Management Launches

Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM)

The largest nonprofit association for supply chain officially launches full suite of products and services to transform supply chains.

Looking Ahead: 2019 is the Year of Servitization

Here's why manufacturers need to begin the shift to servitization in 2019.

Gary Brooks

Training/Onboarding

Metric of the Month: Number of Supply Chain Planning Employees

The complex nature of managing supply chain activities, with its multitude of relationships and processes, requires planning—one of the key functional areas of supply chain management.

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Training/Onboarding

Fixing an Overly Complicated Sales and Operational Planning Process

The Hackett Group Inc.

Sales and operations planning has become a cumbersome and complex business management process for many companies.

FIG. 1 Integrated business planning (IBP) – building on S&OP

Risk/Compliance

Tesla to Cut Workforce by 7 Percent

The announcement follows recent cost-cutting strategies the company has implemented in order to reduce the price of its products and boost margins.

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Training/Onboarding

Supply Chain Reform Starts in the Boardroom

Assigning non-executive directors to the supply chain can help protect small suppliers from scandals, such as the Carillion payment practice.

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Supply Chain Visibility

Win the War for Talent with Greater Workforce Visibility

UKG Workforce Institute (formerly known as Kronos)

To win the war for talent, supply chain managers need visibility into labor data.

Robert O'dwyer

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