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Is It Really Burdensome to Disclose Your Climate-Related Risks?
Pressure is building on companies to disclose more information about their climate-related risks, but it remains to be seen whether such calls will actually pose a burden for more than a handful of isolated companies.
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Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico 'Unprecedented'
Mexico manufacturing has come a long way from the early days of simple product assembly in bare bones "maquiladoras" just over the U.S. border.
IDC Manufacturing Insights Offers Road Map for PLM
IDC Manufacturing Insights is offering a new MaturityScape platform to aid companies in developing effective "next-generation" product-lifecycle management (PLM) strategies.
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Unlocking Productivity in R&D in Pharmaceutical Industry
During the long downturn in R&D productivity, a handful of biopharmaceutical companies have consistently bucked the trend. How did they manage it? After all, they have experienced the same industry pressures as their peers - pressures such as lengthier R&D cycle times, higher costs of failure, and sharper regulatory scrutiny.
The Hidden Savings of Card Acceptance
As a supplier, you're constantly looking for ways to reduce costs in the payment cycle. While many suppliers think that corporate cards result in higher costs to them, in reality, card acceptance can actually positively impact the bottom line through a combination of cost savings, reduced bad debts and increased revenue.
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Supply Chain Women's Group Sets Symposium April 27-29
The women's leadership organization AWESOME (Achieving Women's Excellence in Supply Chain, Operations, Management and Education) is inviting senior women leaders in supply chain to participate in the organization's fourth annual symposium, taking place April 27-29 in Portland, Ore.
Companies Quite Willing to Invest in Robotics, Automation Technology, Survey Finds
As companies are increasing their spending on supply chain technology, a growing number are looking to robotics and automation.
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Software Can Help Soothe Free Trade Headaches
Free Trade Agreements, such as the ambitious Trans-Pacific Partnership recently signed in Auckland, N.Z., represent an attractive opportunity for U.S. importers. The same is true for the corresponding Foreign Trade Zones that have greatly proliferated in the last forty years - rising from eight in the U.S. in 1970 to more than 500 today.
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J.R. Simplot: Surviving the Perils of Multitasking
The vertically integrated agriculture and food producer takes on the job of overhauling its supply, demand and logistics-planning systems, while opening a major new production plant.
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Xerox to Resell Tradeshift's Procurement Software
Xerox has entered into a global reseller agreement with Tradeshift, adding the latter's cloud-based procurement and accounts-payable software to its suite of services.
Leaving EU Could Damage British Shipping Industry
If Britain votes to leave the European Union, the country's shipping sector faces years of disruption as trade agreements get reworked and currency volatility leads to higher costs at a time when the industry is battling its worst global downturn.
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Why Supply Chain Has Taken So Long to Migrate to the Cloud
Supply-chain has gone to the cloud. The only question is: What took it so long?
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