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Making the Most of Blockchain By Charlotte de Brabandt and Henry Fudge Did you know that nearly 60 percent of large corporations are actively considering or have already implemented blockchain

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Inquire of Your Suppliers By Sriram Narayanan, Ph.D., MBA, and Joe Sandor, MBA How can a supplier and buyer can begin a creative process? It is important to recognize that any knowledge creation

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Making Office Supplies a Strategic Purchase Procurement specialists in mid-level companies — those with 20-200 employees — are often relegated to being professional pencil pushers. They may be

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ROB Roundup: October PMI® All summer, the Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® hummed along with dispassionate efficiency, so much so that the monthly composite index appeared to

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Implementing a Successful Supplier Sourcing Contract By Kate Vitasek Some sourcing business deals are simple to negotiate, especially when they are basic transactional deals, such as for office

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The Monthly Metric: Defect Rate Welcome to the November edition of The Monthly Metric, as analytics-minded supply management professionals are still bouncing back from the tryptophan and sweets

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ROB Roundup: November PMI® After the Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® indicated softening growth in September and October, there were concerns that the U.S. manufacturing sector

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The Valuable Convergence of Procurement and Compliance Procurement and compliance functions are converging — and it makes sense because they face similar challenges, says Brian Alster, global

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ROB Roundup: November NMI® The release of the Non-Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® had no chance of being the biggest economic news on Thursday, not with the Dow Jones Industrial

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How to Take Advantage of the Trade Truce The 90-day trade truce agreed upon by President Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping at the recent G20 Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, offers

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