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Business Intelligence & Analytics: Measuring Quality with Clearer, More Coherent and Fewer Metrics

Analyst Insight: Analyzing the right metrics is obviously essential for accomplishing the difficult task of maintaining and improving quality at every single step of the supply chain. Still, basic principles must first be applied in order to achieve better performance and accurately measure supply chain behavior.

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Food & Beverage: Safety and Traceability

Analyst Insight: The regulatory environment for food and beverage manufacturers is changing. President Obama has reinvigorated the FDA's Food Safety Working Group and change is on the way. It is more important than ever for food and beverage manufacturers to get ahead of the curve and ensure food safety and traceability across their entire supply chains, from the field to the fork.

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Critical Visibility And How to Get It

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Global Supply Chain Management: It's Time to Take Control

Analyst Insight: As of 2010, the traditional relationship between supply chain and business is in full revolution, and global supply chain management has become more important than ever. The roles of supply chain and manufacturing within organizations continue to evolve, making it clear that manufacturing should be reporting to supply chain, instead of the other way around.

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Supply Chain Cash Flow Slows

Automotive: Where Is Supply Chain Software for the Industry Coming from and Where Is It Heading?

Analyst Insight: The automotive industry has one of the most complex supply chains, upstream (hundreds of part and accessory suppliers) and downstream (thousands of car dealers, repair shops, etc). Most, if not all, automotive manufacturers use different software systems in different locations, but even at the same location, for different purposes. Often, these systems are old or incompatible, which makes integration difficult.

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Revving Up for Recovery

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YRC Worldwide Introduces 'Green Balance Calculator'

SaaS & On-Demand Systems: Software Evaluation for Software as a Service or Cloud Computing

Analyst Insight: SaaS and new enterprise software offerings have created a new dynamic for enterprise software selection as opposed to traditional software selection. The cloud evaluation process for software and services must consist of different and a more focused approach, including such factors as importance of methodology, model differentiation, industry-specific expertise and total cost of ownership.

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3PLs: Expedited Carrier Services & Outsourcing in North America

Analyst Insight: With broad and expandable carrier networks, outsourced service providers seem well positioned to either make educated decisions as a provider of outsourced carrier selection services or to serve as an educator of shippers, to inform them of available options and potentially provide competitive performance information.

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Actio Releases Update of Material Disclosure Software

Kinaxis Launches Free Benchmarking Service to Measure Supply Chain Performance

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