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ROB Roundup: March PMI® An inverted yield curve. Soft housing starts. Weak retail sales. In recent days, each new piece of recent U.S. economic data seemed to further stoke fears of a slowdown,

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A TCO Approach to Contract Labor: Evaluating Billable Wages By Leviticous “Vic” Cleveland Welcome back to our ongoing discussion of understanding billable wages. To counter the rising costs of

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Contractors’ Cost-RecoveryRecourse After Shutdown During the 35-day federal government shutdown that ended with Friday’s agreement to restore normal operations until February 15, the impact was

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ROB Roundup: January PMI® And on Friday, the U.S. manufacturing sector exhaled. The Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® indicated a bounce-back month for factories, as the composite

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Digital Transformation Is Key to Procurement Meeting Business Needs As organizations struggle to get more out of less, digital technology can help them control operational costs while meeting a

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ROB Roundup: February PMI® The Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® was released on Friday, and the composite PMI® of 54.1 percent was below analysts’ expectations and represented

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Shaping Procurement’s Future Changing demographics, increased digitization and improved mobility are among the macro trends that will set a different standard for procurement in the future, says

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Third-Party Risk Management and Compliance Pressures Mounting Dun & Bradstreet has released its third Compliance and Procurement Sentiment Report — and the good news is that 86 percent of

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The Monthly Metric: Risk Management Score The 2015 white paper that introduced Institute for Supply Management®’s (ISM®) Mastery Model describes risk, one of the model’s 16 core competencies,

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Brexit’s Impact on the Global Supply Chain By Chris Laws There are two ways that the United Kingdom’s (U.K.) exit from the European Union (EU) can unfold. A hard Brexit describes a worst-case

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