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Employees Want to Participate in Their Company's Social Responsibility Initiatives, Study Finds

Employee engagement in corporate social responsibility activities including environmental initiatives can demonstrably improve job performance, according to research from ESMT European School of Management and Technology.

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Crystal & Company Launches Supply Chain Risk-Management Tool

Crystal & Company, a strategic risk and insurance advisory service, has launched a Web-based tool to manage supply-chain risk.

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To Succeed, You 'Must' Align Lean Initiative with Merchandising Strategy

Any attempt to apply "lean" thinking to a manufacturer or retailer's supply chain must have merchandise lifecycle plans in alignment with supply chain strategy to succeed, according to the vice president of strategic services at software company JDA.

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Elemica Unveils Supply Chain Process Control Tower

Elemica Inc., a vendor of software for supply-chain network management, has created a Business Process Control Tower application.

Many Dealers, Manufacturers Oppose Recalls of Used, Rental Vehicles for Immediate Repairs

Auto dealers have opposed legislative efforts to require recalled used and rental cars to be immediately repaired, arguing that not all recalls require swift attention.

Best Practices Can Help Overcome Transnational Infrastructure Challenges

Transnational infrastructure programs, such as cross-border railway networks and electricity distribution systems, can increase regional trade, prosperity, stability and integration. That is part of the rationale of the Priority Action Plan of the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA PAP), encompassing 51 programs and with an investment need of $68bn up to the year 2020. Such programs face formidable challenges, however.

Coping With the Nightmare of Consumer-Product Recalls

My previous post covered the difficulty of tracing and ensuring the quality of automotive and aerospace parts. The job is just as tough for consumer packaged goods and food producers.

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Resilinc Offers Corporate Social Responsibility Module in SupplyIntel

Resilinc Corp., a vendor of applications for supply-chain resiliency, has made available the SupplyIntel CSR (corporate social responsibility) Module.

Dassault Systèmes Issues Global Visibility App for Food and Beverage

Dassault Systèmes has released its Global Visibility for Food & Beverage application for manufacturers.

In Automotive and Aerospace, Every Part Matters

Think it's tough tracking finished goods from source to sale? Trying doing the same for the millions of parts that go into them.

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The Five Stages of Logistics Maturity

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GS1 Healthcare US Issues UDI Implementation Guideline

GS1 Healthcare US, an industry group formed to promote GS1 standards in the U.S. healthcare industry, has published an implementation guideline for addressing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s new regulation for Unique Device Identification (UDI).

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