Today, Friday July 3rd appears to be the unofficial July 4th Holiday from work for most in the U.S. — except for the nearly 10% officially unemployed who are on a downturn holiday every day. And that figure doesn’t include those whose unemployment b…
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Share This on Linked In A recent article in Logistics Viewpoints, the ARC Advisory Group Blog, asked a very important question given that many of the smaller vendors in this space are not on the solid footing they once were — What If Your Supply Chain Software Vendor Goes Out Of Business?It’s a good […]
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Yesterday, Spend Matters covered the story of Thomas Global’s shutdown, noting in detail a number of the reasons that led to the decision to close its doors as well as the staffing and supplier advertising implications. I received a couple of emails …
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Share This on Linked In A recent article in Supply Chain Digest listed the seven timeless challenges of supply chain management, as described by Dr. J. Paul Dittmann, the Director of the Office of Corporate Partnership at the University of Tennessee. While I have to agree that these challenges are “timeless” in that […]
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Earlier this week, Next Level Purchasing announced their latest certification, the SPSM2. Judging from the look of the curriculum, it seems like it covers quite a bit of ground and some in the industry have positioned it as a “masters degree” in purc…
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Thomas Global is closing its virtual doors in 2010 according to the latest news to come out of the supplier directory world. According to a source close to Thomas that I traded notes with this earlier this afternoon, ?the site will be up until 2010 t…
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I’ve been hearing this week through the grapevine that software companies, including Ariba and Emptoris, had a challenging time closing deals at the end of the second quarter, but I haven’t wanted to pull the trigger on saying anything about it.
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Share This on Linked In Industry Week recently ran a great article on why going green can mean less red for your bottom line. The article quoted some great statistics from a recent Economist Intelligence Unit study that found that companies undertaking green initiatives as part of a strategy to cut costs and […]
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Earlier this week, Next Level Purchasing announced their latest certification: the SPSM2. Billed as a follow-on course of study to the SPSM certification, the SPSM2 builds on the curriculum of the previous designation but is not meant as a replacemen…
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When the Obama administration projected the budgetary impact of the stimulus package it assumed that unemployment would not go above the 8 per cent mark. Unfortunately, the unemployment numbers that came out recently put unemployment at 9.4 percent w…
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