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The Monthly Metric: Supplier Delivery Time In supply management, variability is the fuel that drives the metrics engine. If consumer demand, supplier performance and parts/product quality never

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Dexterity and Lower Cost Setting Collaborative Robots Apart In manufacturing, there are robots. And there are cobots. The latter — collaborative robots — are smaller and more dexterous than

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Supply Chain Shortages Not Going Away Soon Supply chain has become a household phrase among consumers, who have experienced shortages of goods, parts and accessories due to lack of containers;

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Optimizing Supply Management with Quantum Computing Competitive supply chains leverage constrained optimization (CO) techniques to assure their operations are optimally tuned. CO helps supply

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Planning for the Surge of Holiday Deliveries Already dealing with high-e-commerce sales during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, how does a large delivery services company like FedEx prepare

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Robotics Technology Taking Over Materials Handling Increased competition, demand for flexibility and productivity improvement and a “seismic” growth in e-commerce-related fulfillment and

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ROB Roundup: March NMI® From his usual spot on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade on Wednesday, CNBC analyst Rick Santelli reported the just-released Non-Manufacturing ISM® Report On

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The Monthly Metric: Spend WithLine-Item Visibility Imagine embarking on a cross-country road trip without consulting a map or GPS system to determine the quickest route, doing no research on

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Electric Vehicle Fleets: The Need for Infrastructure Interest in battery electric vehicles (BEVs) — including cars, trucks or vans — for delivery is gaining traction among fleet managers who are

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Tips for Better Print Management By Graham Crawshaw Companies’ spend on printed marketing materials may have decreased since the growth of the Internet and digital marketing. However, print

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