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Is It a Good Idea to Invest in Hiring a Purchasing Manager?

Precoro

In the article, we look critically at the role of the purchasing manager and discuss how to determine the value of hiring one. The purchasing manager is a supply chain professional who sources and acquires materials, products, and services for further use or resale by the company. The Budget Limits are Well Communicated and Met.

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7 Trending Business Practices Disrupting Procurement!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. The correlation between technology and time is a special one. A report in 2016 by GT Nexus, “showed there is a demand for ethically and sustainably sourced products.

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29 warehouse & automation experts share insights on how warehouse robots will impact industry employment

6 River Systems

There’s no question that innovative technologies aid in logistics and supply chain management, but when it comes to the many labor-intensive processes that take place in the warehouse, some fear that robots could make human warehouse workers obsolete. She is now an Editor at Aggregage for the site Supply Chain Brief.

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Do Americans Really Want Splendid Isolation?

Enterra Insights

For example, an email I received from Axios noted that one far-right clothing company was recently fined by the Federal Trade Commission for ripping out “Made in China” tags and replacing them with “Made in America” tags. Today there are 135 million service workers versus 13 million manufacturing workers.”[2]

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[Infographic] The Power of 3D Printing in Manufacturing: An Illustrated Guide

GlobalTranz

Editor’s Note: We love talking about and reporting on technology which effects and also makes the lives’ of manufacturing companies much better. We’ve been providing manufacturing companies and shippers with a web-based transportation management system since 1998, before web-based TMS was as prolific as it is today.