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2014 Will See Businesses Continue to Practice 'Corporate Extortion'

Corporate extortion is likely to keep booming in 2014, and we don't mean extortion of corporations, as is practiced by Somali pirates or entrepreneurial Russians. We mean extortion by corporations.

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Food Cost Reduction Strategies Are Suggested for 2014

Food-cost inflation is inevitable year to year, but it doesn't necessarily have to eat into the profit margins of full-service restaurant operators. The key is to understand all the components that affect food costs and the available options for controlling them through strategic purchasing programs.

Joe Andraski: An Incredible Supply Chain Journey

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All Hail the Age of C2C: Consumer-to-Consumer

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Intermodal Thrives, While Long-haul Trucking Dives

Intermodal is on a roll.

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The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board: A Case Study

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Why Your Forecast Is Wrong (And Always Will Be)

How is your demand forecast like a tabloid psychic? Their record for accuracy is just about the same.

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2013 Supply Chain Innovation Awards, Presented by SupplyChainBrain & CSCMP

Innovation of the Year: Smart packaging creates right size box for every item shipped from e-commerce centers Winner: Staples & Packsize International; Runner-Up: PepsiCo; Finalists: LMI, Motorola Solutions, Pa. Liquor Control Board, IBM

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The Strategic Approach to Implementing Traceability Standards

The importance of produce traceability has been made devastatingly clear in recent years by well publicized incidents of illness, and even death, due to contaminated lettuce, spinach, cantaloupes and more. While officials in such cases spend weeks tracing the contamination to its source, all growers, wholesalers and retailers suffer market consequences.

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The Demand-Driven Supply Chain at Coca-Cola

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GM Plans to Reduce Carbon Footprint Through Logistics Programs

General Motors is joining the voluntary U.S. Environmental Protection Agency SmartWay Partnership, which will drive benchmarking of fuel consumption and reduction of emissions by its freight shippers and carriers with the goal of further shrinking the company's carbon footprint.

Alcohol-Control Authority Toasts Vendor-Managed Inventory System

By leaving much of the management up to its many suppliers of wines and spirits and by postponing transfer of ownership, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board saves an estimated $100m.

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