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How Extensive Is Employer's Obligation to Provide Workplace Safety?

It is a nightmare for any employer: what to do with a volatile, constantly aggrieved worker who has had angry, even frightening confrontations with fellow workers - yet has committed no crime.

Affordable Care Act Hasn't Affected Hiring Patterns, 78 Percent of CFOs Say

Seventy-eight percent of chief financial officers say the legislation over the Affordable Care Act has not affected their hiring patterns, according to a survey by Consero Group, which reported results as part of the 2015 Corporate Finance Data Survey.

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Dow Chemical: A Supply Chain Under Constant Change

Noelle Walsh, corporation vice president of supply chain with The Dow Chemical Company, outlines the chemical industry giant's efforts to become more customer-focused, while synchronizing its supply chain upstream to suppliers, and downstream to customers.

Why Aren't Suppliers More Concerned About Food Safety?

On average, $10m is the cost of a recall on a food company. Add this to the fact that recalls have been doubling every year from the 2002-2014 period in the United States, and it should worry any stakeholder in the manufacturing and processing facilities. Yet many of them are surprisingly optimistic about the chance of a recall affecting business, and it's their belief of invincibility that leaves them unprepared to weather a storm when one blows up. When manufacturers take a risk on their customers' health, they take a risk on their business’s health.

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Are Makers of IoT Devices, Systems Obligated to Build in Anti-hacking Security?

With the current state of IoT security, we might call it the Internet-of-Vulnerable-Things. It's all the more alarming because of the types of physical machines/systems that are increasingly network-connected - traffic lights, airplanes, nuclear power plants, and other critical or potentially lethal systems.

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Manufacturing to Create 700,000 Jobs This Year - Report Asks How Many Will Go to Women

Manufacturing is expected to yield approximately 700,000 new jobs in 2015, according to a report from APICS Supply Chain Council, which urges the industry to recruit women for those positions.

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Impact of Tianjin Chemical Explosions 'Will be Far Worse than Reported'

The global business community should be aware that the impact on supply chain operations worldwide - from the two massive explosions that occurred Aug. 12 at the Ruihai International Logistics warehouse in Tianjin, China - will be far worse than suggested by news analysts and Chinese officials, says Resilinc CEO Bindiya Vakil.

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Attracting and Retaining Millennials: What Young Supply Chain Stars Can Teach Us All

At 29 years of age, Katy Conrad, site lead at Shell's Geismar Chemical Plant, is a terrific ambassador for her profession. She loves everything about supply management - working with smart engineering and business professionals, solving tough problems, and making a bottom-line impact. At Shell, she has delivered significant savings, built a regional B2B sourcing strategy, and held an overseas assignment.

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With Future of Lithium-Ion Battery Market Secure, Manufacturers Focus on Cutting Costs

The global market for lithium-ion batteries for vehicles is expected to grow from $7.8bn in 2015 to $30.6bn in 2024, according to a report from Navigant Research.

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More and More Manufacturers Discover Mexico

Due to rising wages and growing logistics costs in China, a growing number of U.S.-based manufacturers are turning to Mexico for production.

Walmart Teams With Group Dedicated to Promoting Reshoring of U.S. Manufacturers

The Reshoring Initiative recently announced a program in partnership with Walmart to help companies manufacture more consumer products in the United States.

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Moving From a Supply Chain to a Supply Web

It's time to stop thinking of your supply chain as an endless stream of entities, all nicely linked together; it is much more complex than that.

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