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January-February 2015

As long as there have been boats and beasts of burden, intrepid business professionals, governments, and marauders have sought fame, fortune, wealth, and value by going global. Think the Phoenicians, Marco Polo, and the Vikings in days of old. Or in contemporary times, think of China, BRIC, EMEA, and other emerging markets. One could argue that outsourcing to China a few decades ago gave birth to supply chain management as we think of it today. This month we’re including an online bonus column from APQC. While this issue focuses on global management, we didn’t want to miss out on the column.

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Now Cheaper, But not “Cheap Oil”

This column represents the annual oil update I’ve been writing since my first column in the January/February 2007 SCMR issue (“Is Your Supply Chain Addicted to Oil?”).

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Supply Chain Innovation Critical in Ebola Response

Walk through the recently built UNICEF warehouse in Copenhagen, Denmark, and you will pass a room where office cubicles have been replaced with rolling tables, white boards,…

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Emerging Nations Lose Their Luster with Evaluation of Risk and Reward on Localization

Will U.S. manufacturers begin to rethink their sourcing strategies as nearshoring and onshoring become more attractive? It depends on who you talk to.

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Global Supply Chain Operations: A Region-by-region Assessment of Readiness

Nearly every organization today is expanding its global footprint, but many are discovering that not all regions are ready for global business. The EPIC framework provides a…

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Global Trade Compliance as a Tool for Success

Compliance with global trade regulations is rapidly becoming much more than an exercise in risk management. Increasingly, it is a strategic capability that can help companies…

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Contracting in China: A Contract Worth the Paper it’s Written On

Supply chain contracts in emerging markets like China were once not worth the paper they were written on. As the market and legal systems mature, savvy organizations are using…

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Supply Chain’s New Role in Protecting Your IP

Intangible assets and intellectual property (IP) are increasingly important in today’s knowledge-based economy. Yet, all too often protection of a company’s intellectual…

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Fulfillment as a Competitive Advantage

Almost every company is working to reduce the time it takes to get an order to a customer’s home and replenish its stores. But while faster fulfillment and small order sizes…

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Purchasing Competency & Procurement Innovation at Molson Coors

In many businesses, innovation is driven through marketing and engineering. At Molson Coors, procurement has deployed a five-step process to drive innovation at one of the…

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Where’s the Next China?

After a decade long offshoring boom, companies are seeking new destinations to optimize their gross profits and asking: Where’s the next China?

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Big Data: Is the Energy Industry Starting to See Real Applications?

The oil and gas industry has always collected data, even if it was hard to access. With new systems and analytic tools, procurement can use Big Data to make smarter sourcing…

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To Benefit the Enterprise, Find Forward-looking Suppliers

Organizations that track supplier innovation and the ability to adopt collaborative technology benefit within and beyond the procurement function.

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