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Maximize Purchasing Power with MercuryProcure
Transportation sourcing and management is critical to your company’s success.
The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be
Transportation professionals help create the future so it is important that we consider the overall context of long-term planning decisions.
Real-Time Data Drives The Future Of Retail
Companies need to understand shoppers across all touchpoints, and must embrace all digital capabilities to harness the customer data that is actionable in the moment and can help drive greater lifetime value, all vital to delivering an exceptional customer experience.
A Better High-Value Delivery Service for Sensitive Medical Equipment
Whatever your business, you want to know that your logistics company can deliver.
McCormick & Co. Builds a World-Class Supply Chain
Reflections on a 10-year journey that transformed McCormick’s supply chain into a global function and strategic asset.
Expresspoint Adopts the Scor Model for Strategic Supply Chain Progress
APICS Supply Chain Council Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model equalizes client requirements and fiscal goals.
GE Oil & Gas Improves Customer Service and Enhances Operational Efficiency
GE aligns with APICS partner JPS to develop a team that improves on-time delivery by over 30 points, the highest performance in business unit history.
Ingersoll Rand Makes Materials Management Core Competency
Ingersoll Rand applies APICS standards to improve customer experience and increases delivery performance 86%.
Women in Power and Utilities Index 2016
At the current rate of a 1% rise every three years, it would take as long as 42 years to reach 30% women on boards, and 72 years to reach 40%, and that’s too long.
Realizing Supply Chain Success
This white paper presents initial research insights from the Beyond the Horizons project and introduces a conceptual model, named the bridge model, which can guide supply chain strategy development and decision making.
Connecting the Freight Industry
Our pipes modernize carrier connections, speed communication, and reduce errors, giving you the ability to serve more customers and the confidence to offer the best rates possible.
Returns Management Strategy: Recapture Revenue
The following paper provides a contextual overview of U.S. business practices with regard to managing returns, and examines the advantages of a properly maintained returns process and discuss important options to consider in developing a reverse logistics strategy.
Gaining Business Value from the Internet of Things
Organizations are beginning to realize that failing to implement a compelling IoT strategy will leave them at a major competitive disadvantage, and these companies are leveraging the cloud to ensure the scalability, flexibility, power and speed that are critical for IoT data communication.
DHL’s Failure to Abide by International Standards
DHL has grievously and systematically failed to live up to international standards, as well as its own procedures, aspirations and promises.
VISANOW Immigration Trends 2016 Survey
The survey maps out the present and future of immigration at organizations - and takes the pulse of the HR professionals who are responsible for overseeing the process.
Deploying SAP EWM or WM in Your Conventional or Automated Warehouse?
As the market-leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, SAP has become the go-to choice for companies seeking to streamline their operational processes to gain a competitive edge.
The Case for Lowering LTL Limits of Liability
Any 3PL that’s serious about moving LTL understands how critically important their carrier relationships are to their growth and success.
Top Tips to Producing an RFP Built for Differentiation
An RFP can be analogous to an exam...a series of questions in front of a potential vendor to see who scores the highest.
Impact of High Speed Door Operation on Saving Energy
The large doors used on doorways accessed by traffic both inside and outside a building can make a big difference in terms of the operation's energy budget and sustainability mission.
Innovative Approaches to Managing the Risks of Multinational Supply Chains
Managing supply chain risks is critical to the success of a business, and perhaps most critical in Asia Pacific with its high growth rate, shifting industry trends, increasingly sophisticated consumers and businesses rapidly expanding into the region.