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SCRC Innovation and Social Responsibility Supply Index: A Critical Input to “Drucker Management Top 250 List”

NC State SCRC

The ranking “is based on an analysis of 37 data inputs provided by 12 third-party sources. In the innovation category, metrics related to spending management, category management, strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management.

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The Definitive Guide on Produce Season Transportation Impacts

Zipline Logistics

The largest impacts start in the South and move their way up the US latitudinally – think Florida to Georgia to North Carolina, and Texas to California to Washington to Oregon. Although the state’s farms produce more corn and grains, by comparison , its fruit crop poses the most disruption to the logistics market. Rhode Island.

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Bio-based Products Future is Promising, but Hurdles Exist

Supply Chain View from the Field

However, each of these firms expressed that they would benefit from more direct discussions with the BioPreferred Program to find ways to increase the utilization of the label as a default “indicator” to be used in life cycle assessment (LCA) programs similar to the use of sustainable sourced forestry products.

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Perspectives on the Global Trade Environment: A Panel Discussion

NC State SCRC

The goal is to create redundant sources based on supplier-specific and country-of-origin, to ensure that each product category has redundancy as a form of insurance on the supply chain. It is not so much the application of a tariff, or even leaving NAFTA, but more like “North Carolina leaving the United States!”

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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: The argument for creating an analytics culture

NC State SCRC

This study may be useful to all analytics-driven managers because studies comparing companies against each other often fail to find suitable metrics that provide an apple-to-apple comparison. True, 10-K ’s andother standard financial filings provide metrics that are often used when comparing performance between companies.

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Procurement Digitization: The Key To Price Transparency And Healthcare Transformation

ivalua

Healthcare continues to be a source of major concern in the United States, with recent polling indicating it is the number one issue to voters in the 2020 elections. As a result, price comparison – a cornerstone of the market economy – is simply unavailable for those seeking healthcare. Source: Health IT Outcomes.

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Procurement Digitization: The Key To Price Transparency And Healthcare Transformation

ivalua

Healthcare continues to be a source of major concern in the United States, with recent polling indicating it is the number one issue to voters in the 2020 elections. As a result, price comparison – a cornerstone of the market economy – is simply unavailable for those seeking healthcare.