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Navigating Fleet’s Future Freight rates and volumes are up. Corporate tax rates are lower, which is leading some companies to invest in new equipment. Thus, orders are up: According to ACT

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Focusing on Shared Vision and Statement of Intent (Editor’s note: Inside Supply Management® Weekly recently published “Implementing a Successful Supplier Sourcing Contract” that highlighted

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Training in a Globalized Market: Methodology or Madness? By Jennifer Cunningham The training trajectory in the globalized business market has changed dramatically over the last 10 years. Now, the

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A TCO Approach to Contract Labor: Evaluating Billable Wages By Leviticous “Vic” Cleveland Welcome back to our ongoing discussion of understanding billable wages. To counter the rising costs of

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Contractors’ Cost-RecoveryRecourse After Shutdown During the 35-day federal government shutdown that ended with Friday’s agreement to restore normal operations until February 15, the impact was

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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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A Plan for Every Part Is the Answer for Sourcing Speed By William Crane, CPSM Sourcing a new product is exciting and stressful: While a rite of passage, it isn’t easy due to the often

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Changing Consumption Habits Can Help Organizations’ Sustainability Quests It’s been said, “The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” To do their part to

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The Monthly Metric: Level of Integration Between Procurement Applications Even before COVID-19, supply managers realized they no longer could operate in silos, and that integration is critical to

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The Should-Cost Calculation By K.O. Ansa B. Yiadom Procurement professionals have an array of practices and tools to leverage supplier-related value for organizations. These include contracts to

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