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The 21st Century Supply Chain: Complexity Happens

The best-laid strategies are still essential, but for many businesses today, success depends on the ability to find opportunity in the unexpected.

Aligning Your Supply Chain Strategy with Your Business Strategy

Corporate giants have shown the importance of ensuring that their supply chain operations are in sync with their business model. D-M-E has shown that mid-market manufacturers can mold themselves into world-beating competitors using the same principles.

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Six Sigma Is No Cure-All for Business Ills, Says Hackett Group. Here's Where It Falls Down on the Job

Purchase Enhances RedPrairie's Position in Store Management

Kellogg Institutes Wide-Ranging Returns Management System

The manufacturer says that returns management works best when every department-and each trading partner-understands it has a role to play in controlling unsaleables.

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Maker of Printing Papers Expands Contract with IBM

Apexon Updates Supply Management Solution

Market for Supply Chain Management Applications Is Still Plugging Along, Says AMR Report

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Hackett Cites Globalization as Driver for Bid by Business to Cut Costs, Boost Agility

Global Food Service Company Screens with Vastera

'True' Collaboration: It's in the Eye Of the Beholder

Nearly everyone agrees that a synchronized supply chain requires effective collaboration between trading partners, but when it comes to defining what collaboration actually is and how to accomplish it, opinions are all over the map.

How Is Your Supply Chain Performing?

It's getting harder and harder to track the performance of suppliers, carriers and processes that make up a global supply chain. Here's how a few successful companies are addressing the problem.

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