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ROB Roundup: April PMI® May 01, 2018ROB Roundup: April PMI® Like the previous month, the April Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®, released on Tuesday, reflected supply executives’ worries about the impact of the -
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ROB Roundup: April NMI® May 03, 2018ROB Roundup: April NMI® After the release of the April Non-Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® on Thursday, many of the headlines highlighted a clear trend — the NMI® dropped -
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Package or Perish April 19, 2018Package or Perish The active packaging market value will reach US$4.62 billion in 2018, according to a report by Smithers Pira, a United Kingdom-based packaging research firm and consultancy. “ -
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ROB Roundup: June NMI® July 05, 2018ROB Roundup: June NMI® While the U.S. manufacturing sector is in a productive but cautious state amid concerns about a potential trade war, the services sector that makes up three-fourths of -
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ROB Roundup: July PMI® August 01, 2018ROB Roundup: July PMI® The July Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® was unveiled on Wednesday, and although the PMI® dropped slightly to 58.1 percent, there were positives among -
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ROB Roundup: July NMI® August 03, 2018ROB Roundup: July NMI® Just last month, the Non-Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® was described as “swell and steady,” with the NMI® at 58.6 percent or better in five of the -
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Holidays Call for Logistics Planning and Technologies October 15, 2018Holidays Call for Logistics Planning and Technologies The holiday season has long been underway for supply managers, who are ramping up distribution plans for goods that have already arrived in -
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Making Office Supplies a Strategic Purchase October 29, 2018Making Office Supplies a Strategic Purchase Procurement specialists in mid-level companies — those with 20-200 employees — are often relegated to being professional pencil pushers. They may be -
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ROB Roundup: October PMI® November 01, 2018ROB Roundup: October PMI® All summer, the Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® hummed along with dispassionate efficiency, so much so that the monthly composite index appeared to -
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The Monthly Metric: Defect Rate November 26, 2018The Monthly Metric: Defect Rate Welcome to the November edition of The Monthly Metric, as analytics-minded supply management professionals are still bouncing back from the tryptophan and sweets