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How to Enhance Your ROB Dashboard’s Effectiveness You’ve created your dashboard to track the ISM® Report On Business®, released monthly by Institute for Supply Management®, and other

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The Should-Cost Calculation By K.O. Ansa B. Yiadom Procurement professionals have an array of practices and tools to leverage supplier-related value for organizations. These include contracts to

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Training in a Globalized Market: Methodology or Madness? By Jennifer Cunningham The training trajectory in the globalized business market has changed dramatically over the last 10 years. Now, the

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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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The Monthly Metric: ROB Inventories Subindexes This month’s measurement is ground that The Monthly Metric has wanted to cover for some time: the ISM® Report On Business®. Each month, Institute

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Navigating Fleet’s Future Freight rates and volumes are up. Corporate tax rates are lower, which is leading some companies to invest in new equipment. Thus, orders are up: According to ACT

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Focusing on Shared Vision and Statement of Intent (Editor’s note: Inside Supply Management® Weekly recently published “Implementing a Successful Supplier Sourcing Contract” that highlighted

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ROB Roundup: August PMI® The release of the ISM® Report On Business® always generates discussion and activity in the financial and procurement worlds, but Tuesday’s unveiling of the

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14 Industrial Locales Considered‘Strategic’ Markets Due to their infrastructure and large millennial populations, among other factors, industrial markets in 14 locales can offer opportunities to

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The Commercial-Vehicle TechnologySupply Base Shift By William Crane, CPSM A lot has been written about automotive original equipment manufacturers’ (OEMs) headway in bringing more affordable

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