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Warehouse Logistics: Growth in Warehouse Solutions Will Range from Steady to Robust

Analyst Insight: Continued globalization and increasing leverage of third-party services for manufacturing, distribution and returns keeps the warehouse and logistics sector strong. Though the growth of warehouse space slowed due to poor sales of consumer and commercial goods in the U.S. over the last year, technology sales continue to thrive though growth for some was not robust in the last year.

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Global Supply Chain Management: Closing the Talent Gaps

Analyst Insight: While the economic slowdown has adversely impacted the volumes of global sourcing and product distribution, global recovery will continue to fuel expansion of importing and exporting worldwide. For companies that source and distribute internationally - more than 80 percent of all companies that make or sell products - supply chain managers need to continue improving their knowledge and processes for effective global supply chain management.

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Retail: Effective Supply Chains Are Critical to Retailers

Analyst Insight: The retail industry will face many difficult challenges in 2010. Unemployment and underemployment are high and living standards for Americans continue to erode, leaving little money for purchases outside of necessities. Also, issues in housing, banking and health care will continue. Although there may not be much sales growth in 2010, retailers can still strengthen their bottom lines by having an effective retail supply chain, which is essential to reduce costs and maintain high service levels.

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Heavy-Duty Truck Net Orders in Line with Low Expectations

Supply Chain Security & Risk Management: There's Help for the 'Dirty' Work of Dealing with Risk Management

Analyst Insight: The dirty underside of supply chain is confronting the many risks inherent in 24x7-operations entrusted to "partners" in far-flung regions who are conducting fraudulent activities as well as dealing with unpredictable events. The big market here is risk transfer-insurance and others services to mitigate the impact of events. In addition, step by step, we are beginning to see approaches-metric and risk assessments methods, auditing and monitoring services, and technology - to support risk avoidance and assure recovery.

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Sourcing & Procurement Solutions: Being a Leader Means Taking Costs Out

Analyst Insight: The number one strategy for sourcing and procurement executives is taking costs out. But that requires an enterprise view of procurement and sourcing resources, including spend, business process, supplier contracts, organizational structure, and employees. Leading organizations have accelerated their strategic cost-reduction activities to ensure immediate sourcing and procurement ROI.

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IT Becomes More Strategic for Truckers

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Sales & Operations Planning: Integrate the S&OP Process with Finance

Analyst Insight: Ideally, the output of the S&OP plan should drive companies' income statement and balance sheets. Companies should create internal projects and SWAT teams wherein the S&OP plan is mapped to the key financial documents with collaboration between finance and supply chain.

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Quality & Metrics: Perfect-Order Mentality More Important Than the Actual Measure

Analyst Insight: There has been significant debate spanning 20 years about the validity of the "perfect order" metric, which measures the quality of product delivery. The debate mostly focuses on how the metric is calculated and if it is a valid measurement of supply chain performance. But, a more relevant part of the discussion is the mentality that drives organizations toward perfect performance.

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Buying from Supermarket More Fuel-Efficient than from Local Farmers' Market, Agriculture Expert Says

Customs Issues and Reshaping the Supply Chain

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Supply Chain Security & Risk Management: Mitigating the Risks of Distributed Demand-Supply Networks

Analyst Insight: Today's supply chain managers operate in a distributed, networked environment, where multi-tier process visibility and effective partner collaboration are critical to success. In order to successfully balance the risks and rewards of this new environment, companies need to have much more transparent and responsive supply chains than in the past.

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