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ROB Roundup: September NMI® From his regular spot on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade, CNBC analyst Rick Santelli told viewers just before the Non-Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®

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Why the Term ‘Supply Chain’is No Longer Relevant Supply management has become more than a simple “chain.” By Terry Volpel When I started in supply management, one of my first duties was to

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Holidays 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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Reshoring Is Up, Despite Tariffs Uncertainty Reshoring and foreign direct investment is up — with 170,000 manufacturing jobs returning to the U.S. in 2017, an increase of 50 percent from 2016 and

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ROB 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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Procuring a Preview: November/December Issue Check your inboxes and mailboxes soon for the November/December issue of Inside Supply Management®, published by Institute for Supply Management®

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The 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

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ROB Roundup: November PMI® After the Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® indicated softening growth in September and October, there were concerns that the U.S. manufacturing sector

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How to Take Advantage of the Trade Truce The 90-day trade truce agreed upon by President Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping at the recent G20 Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, offers

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The Manufacturing ‘Skills Gap’ U.S. factory activity has grown for 115 consecutive months, according to the Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®, and long-term forecasts for the sector

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