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The Monthly Metric: Overall Equipment Effectiveness December 18, 2020The Monthly Metric: Overall Equipment Effectiveness Year 4 of The Monthly Metric closes with an interesting analytic: In fact, so much time can be spent discussing its shortcomings that one -
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Training in a Globalized Market: Methodology or Madness? January 14, 2019Training 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 January 17, 2019A 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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The Monthly Metric: ROB Inventories Subindexes January 18, 2019The Monthly Metric: ROB Inventories Subindexes This month’s measurement is ground that The Monthly Metric has wanted to cover for some time: the ISM® Report On Business®. Each month, Institute -
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ROB Roundup: January PMI® February 01, 2019ROB 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 February 04, 2019A 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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ROB Roundup: January NMI® February 05, 2019ROB Roundup: January NMI® In the financial world, the Non-Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® on Tuesday was labeled “disappointing” — the NMI® of 56.7 percent fell short of -
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How to Enhance Your ROB Dashboard’s Effectiveness February 11, 2019How to Enhance Your ROB Dashboard’s Effectiveness You’ve created your dashboard to track the ISM® Report On Business®, released monthly by Institute for Supply Management®, and other -
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The Should-Cost Calculation February 15, 2019The 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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ROB Roundup: March PMI® April 01, 2019ROB Roundup: March PMI® An inverted yield curve. Soft housing starts. Weak retail sales. In recent days, each new piece of recent U.S. economic data seemed to further stoke fears of a slowdown,