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PepsiCo Achieves 'Near-Net-Zero' Environmental Impact at Arizona Plant

The company turns a Frito-Lay plant into a multi-project "learning lab," as it seeks to offset environmental impacts related to water, energy and waste generation.

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Fresh and Fast: Meeting the Challenges of the Produce Supply Chain

A conversation with Richard Sawyer, vice president of supply chain with Dole Fresh Vegetables.

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Trade Compliance and Global Security Management: A New Synergy

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Success in Emerging Markets Takes Tactical and Strategic Approach

Over the last few years, the conventional wisdom has coalesced around a view that success in emerging markets is primarily a function of outstanding execution - speed, opportunism, tenacity, and guile - instead of a well-thought-out strategy supported by a set of winning and difficult-to-replicate organizational capabilities. In other words, street smarts are supposed to beat MBA smarts every time.

(Future) Nights of the S.F. Roundtable, Part Two

More predictions for the future of supply-chain management, courtesy of a panel of industry insiders at the fifth annual seer-fest sponsored by the San Francisco Roundtable of the Council of Supply-Chain Management Professionals:

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IBM Deploys Advanced Analytics to Unify Its Integrated Supply Chain

"Multinational" doesn't necessarily mean global. IBM saw the need to apply rigorous analytics to virtually every function that makes up its supply chain - and in the process, harmonize business processes across the organization.

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Prepping Your Company for That All-Important ERP Implementation

A conversation with Jonathan Gross, vice president and legal counsel for Pemeco Consulting.

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MIT's Hi-Viz Supply Chain Project Aims to Automatically Map Supply Chain Risk

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Dell, GENCO Take the Plunge Into Vested Outsourcing

Trust and a sharing of risk and reward are the hallmarks of an outsourcing agreement that took the two companies beyond the concept of "price per activity," to one that strives for mutual profitability and enhanced customer service.

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Big Data Is Good, But Fast Big Data Is Much Better

While the press and many companies continue to marvel at the sheer volume of data being generated and captured in the internet era, forward-leaning corporations have already recognized that big data's transformative potential to generate value in both the digital and physical realms will go largely unrealized unless it's complemented by speed. Fast data can unlock the value-creating power of big (and small) data.

Why the Focus on Big Data?

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Talent Management, Digital Readiness Among Most Significant Blind Spots, Business Leaders Say

Business leaders around the world feel least prepared to execute on strategies for driving growth - among them, large-scale transformation, open innovation, digital channels, and talent management - according to a global survey released today by The Boston Consulting Group.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

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Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

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