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ROB Roundup: January PMI® And on Friday, the U.S. manufacturing sector exhaled. The Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® indicated a bounce-back month for factories, as the composite

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#ISM2019: Texas-Sized Twitter In a city synonymous with space exploration, ISM2019 Annual Conference attendees in Houston had no problem compiling enough succinct and clever tweets to reach the

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‘Meaningful Work’ Drives 2020 Shipman Award Winner Sue Spence, MBA, vice president, sourcing, procurement and disbursements at FedEx Corporation, had a virtual “fireside chat” with ISM CEO Thomas

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The ISM® Report On Business® as an Economic ‘Speedometer’ The ISM® Report On Business® gauges sentiments of purchasing managers and supply executives, who are often said to be

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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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The Challenges of Cybersecurity The ISM2018 Tuesday morning keynote session, “Cybersecurity: New Challenges, New Solutions,” was a tag-team discussion featuring Gen. Keith Alexander, USA (Ret.),

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ISM’s CEO Offers TipsDuring Career Boot Camp The 15-day Career Boot Camp include 15 5-minute podcasts, including one by Derry. Procurious has launched a free digital career boot camp for

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#ISM2017: Magic Tweetdom In time, we'll find out if the 2017 edition of ISM®’s Annual International Supply Management Conference is the biggest ever. However, if Monday's Twitter activity

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Former Fed Chair ‘Happy’ with theU.S. Economic Outlook Former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen speaks with Institute for Supply Management® CEO Thomas W. Derry during Tuesday's keynote

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The Monthly Metric: Percentage of Strategic vs. Operational Employees As a supply chain manager at Intel Corporation from 2007-14, Jim Fleming, CPSM, CPSD, oversaw several employees whose careers

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