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ROB Roundup: July PMI® Days after the ISM® Report On Business® was reaffirmed as a leading indicator that routinely signals shifts in the economy before they happen, the July PMI®

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ROB Roundup: July NMI® If the release of the July Non-Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® occurred in a vacuum, there would have been limited nitpicking on Monday: The composite

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Getting Back to Data-Management Fundamentals By Neta Berger Today’s leading supply management organizations lean into their technological capabilities to draw insights out of the large amounts of

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ROB Roundup: October PMI® With the first Friday of November also the first business day of the month, it felt like the Super Bowl or Christmas morning for passionate consumers of economic

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ROB Roundup: October NMI® While the Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® is considered one of the most reliable economic indicators — which we at Institute for Supply Management®

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Achieving Business Objectives by Looking ‘Outside In’ When a supply management executive is fired, it’s usually not because the organization failed to hit a savings target or performance

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The Monthly Metric: Managed Spend Per Category Management Employee Category management has become a highly strategic discipline, exemplified by Institute for Supply Management® including it among

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ROB Roundup: November PMI® At 10 a.m. ET on Monday, CNBC analyst Rick Santelli stood at his usual location on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade and delivered a doubleheader of

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ROB Roundup: November NMI® The release of the Non-Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® on Wednesday provided a perfect example — reflected in the divergent headlines and stories below

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ROB Roundup: December PMI® The headline of the release of the Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® on Friday had the subtlety of a fog siren: June 2009. That’s when the Great Recession

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