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Got Cash? Why Not Spend Some on Your Suppliers?

As if corporations didn't have enough money sitting idle in their accounts today - now we learn that they've been borrowing aggressively, spurred on by record-low interest rates.

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Supply-Chain Risk Management: An Essential Competency

Noha Tohamy, research vice president with Gartner, identifies the proactive strategies that leading companies are using to manage supply-chain risk today.

World Resources Institute Adds Sustainability to Business Analysis

The World Resources Institute (WRI) has incorporated sustainability into the traditional SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis employed by many businesses.

Tips on Coping with Volatility & Uncertainty

Suresh Iyer, vice president and global practice head with Genpact, shows how companies can remain competitive in the face of increasing volatility and uncertainty in their supply chains.

The Industrial Internet: A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow?

A few weeks back I referenced the work of Robert J. Gordon, an economist and professor at Northwestern University. In a paper published last September for the Centre for Economic Research, he laid out the history of the first three industrial revolutions. And he asked whether a fourth, supposedly driven by the internet and other advances in information technology, could come anywhere near its predecessors in terms of productivity improvements.

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Recent Trends in Global Trade Compliance

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Report from Hi-Tech & Electronics Supply Chain Summit 2012

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Global Trade Requires "Global Knowledge"

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Minimizing Risk & Liability with Global Trade Management

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Transport Funding 2: Gridlock on the Congressional Gridiron

The holidays are supposed to be a time of joy, but given the state of the economy and other recent events, it's hard to feel positive about much of anything right now - least of all the outlook for transportation policy reform. So why is Joshua Schank, president and chief executive officer of the Eno Center for Transportation, "more optimistic than I have been in a long time" about the prospects for funding critical infrastructure improvements?

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Expect Greater Investment in Means to Detect, Combat Cyber-Attacks on Enterprises, Report Says

The enterprise incident response market is set to see highly dynamic growth over the next few years, totaling $14.79bn by 2017. The reason? The number of malicious cyber agents is rising and they are attacking, hacking, and spying on organizations with impunity.

Supplier Management with PLM-Early Visibility Key to Optimize Sourcing Strategies

It's no surprise that supply chains are growing in complexity as manufacturers continue to globalize in order to reduce costs and expand their market. With this shift, manufacturers need to take a new approach to managing their supply chains by finding ways to improve communication with suppliers, obtain early visibility into sourcing information and better mitigate supplier risk.

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