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India's BPO Industry Needs to Retool to Attract the Right Talent

India's business-process-outsourcing companies have a problem. The $50bn industry has enjoyed phenomenal growth: The top 20 BPO companies' employee base grew 12 percent in 2011, according to Dataquest, and the domestic market is expanding. Yet BPO companies are struggling to attract the right talent.

A Good CFO Doesn't Just Talk Operations - They Are Involved in That Side of the Business

Ask mostly any CFO, and he or she will tell you that they are very involved in operations. But often such involvement is like having a second, lower-paying job: you can't afford to divert too much focus away from your top breadwinner.

Infor Debuts Mobile Application for Asset Management

Business software vendor Infor has released Infor EAM Mobile, an asset-management application for the Apple iPad.

DeltaTRAK Unveils Time-Temp Label; Cold-Chain RFID Traceability

DeltaTRAK has introduced a line of time- and temperature-indicator labels for cold-chain, environmental monitoring and food safety management.

RedPrairie Corp. to Acquire JDA Software in Stock-Purchase Deal

RedPrairie Corp. has agreed to acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of JDA Software, at a price of $45 per share. The deal is valued at approximately $1.9bn, and will create a software company with combined revenues of more than $1bn.

Can Logistics Industry Breach Great Wall of China?

China is evolving from an export-driven manufacturing economy to a more balanced consumer-driven developed economy, and its logistics landscape is under pressure to adapt, according to new research by Jones Lang LaSalle. China's evolution has driven three key trends: the rise of the domestic middle class, rising wages and diminished cost advantages in manufacturing, as well as the rapid development of domestic infrastructure. And these trends are creating long-term opportunities for U.S. companies.

Data in Social CRM Has Tremendous Impact on Supply Chain

Customer relationship management has had a great impact on the social media revolution. Or was it the other way around? Of the many types of software solutions catering to businesses, CRM software has been the most attuned to the rise of social platforms.

Report: Most Companies with Project Management Offices See Higher IT Costs, No Performance Improvements

Project management offices fail to help most companies reduce IT cost or improve performance, according to new research from The Hackett Group Inc. In fact, companies with high utilization of PMOs see materially higher IT costs while also failing to deliver projects with higher ROI or better on-time and on-budget performance. The research also found that companies have significantly reduced their use of PMOs over the past three years, in part due to their inability to positively impact performance.

Regal Logistics Opens New Distribution Center in Los Angeles

Regal Logistics has purchased a new distribution center in the Los Angeles area. The facility in Garden Grove, Calif., offers 120,000 square feet of warehouse space.

Forging Responsible Supply Chains: Are Companies Growing Up?

Now that corporations are "persons," I suppose it's no stretch to describe supply chains as "mature" or "immature." In fact, the words are especially useful when it comes to determining a company's level of supply-chain responsibility.

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Pegasus TransTech Releases New Version of TRANSFLO for Document Management

Pegasus TransTech has released a new version of TRANSFLO, the company's document-management application for transportation companies.

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