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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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ROB Roundup: February NMI® On Monday, this space called the February Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® “the coronavirus edition.” However, it’s possible that the outbreak had an

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The Coronavirus Impact Is Reaching All Corners of Our Lives The COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak is causing an upheaval across global industries, from manufacturing to finance to travel. As

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ROB 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® 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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ROB Roundup: August NMI® Last month, after the Non-Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® indicated that momentum in the U.S. services sector could be stalling, Anthony Nieves, CPSM,

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Report On Business® Roundup: July Services PMI® Amid rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across the country due to the powerful delta variant, the Services PMI® set an all-time

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Inflationary Impacts: Pushing Back on Supplier Price Increases Companies are seeing suppliers push price increases that, if unmitigated, directly impact margins. Procurement organizations must be

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Report On Business® Roundup: August Services PMI® As factories have, services businesses have managed solid expansion since withstanding the initial coronavirus storm in spring 2020. In

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Report On Business® Roundup: August Hospital PMI® The Hospital ISM® Report On Business® for August featured a Hospital PMI® of 60.4 percent, but subindex data and survey respondents’

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