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ROB Roundup: June NMI® The June Non-Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® dropped 1.8 points to its lowest level in almost two years, cooled by slowing employment, business activity

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AI Helps Health-Care Companies Drive Quality Management As pharmaceutical and medical-device companies undergo digital transformation, they are turning to artificial intelligence to facilitate

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Organizations Aren’t Using Supply Chain to Grow Revenue, Report Says A big topic among supply management organizations is how customers are driving the value chain. Likewise, all companies are

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Making Headway in Tail-Spend Management Supply management organizations have tended to ignore tail spend, considering it non-strategic. But as they realize the cost savings that can be derived,

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ROB Roundup: August PMI® The release of the ISM® Report On Business® always generates discussion and activity in the financial and procurement worlds, but Tuesday’s unveiling of the

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14 Industrial Locales Considered‘Strategic’ Markets Due to their infrastructure and large millennial populations, among other factors, industrial markets in 14 locales can offer opportunities to

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Moving Beyond Analyticsto Business Intelligence With so much data available, it can be hard for supply management organizations to determine trends in the data and respond. But the purpose of

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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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Innovators Lead in Technology Adoption Most businesses fall under one of four levels of technological maturity — innovators, early adopters, mainstream adopters and laggards, according to the

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Reaching Customers Through Search Optimization By Michael Bird For manufacturing and other B2C organizations, the ability to connect with customers is critical. But e-commerce customers can slip

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