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Success/ROI of green packaging.

There’s a lot of talk out there about more and more companies going green in their packaging. Does “green packaging” just address the materials? What are metrics to judge the success/ROI of green pa ...

  • Sept. 9, 2009
  • 8 posts

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Feb. 8, 2010

LINA Kay,  2 Groups

Hi Focus members I'm lina Kay I just found you group and looking to learn more what is driving you in term of leading and focus of you discussion. ...

Gartner to Buy AMR: Do Fewer Analyst Firms Matter?

IT industry analysis market leader Gartner plans to acquire AMR Research, a leader in supply chain management and business operations research. The deal reduces the number of independent analysis firm ...

  • Dec. 2, 2009
  • 1 post

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Dec. 3, 2009

  Nik Kellingley,  8 Groups

The problem is with analysis as a concept. Analysis is really working through real business issues based on actual data. These "analysis" firms, a ...

How Are Evolving Supply Chain Management Needs Affecting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) at Your Business?

Suppliers appear and disappear. Sources, prices, availability and quality of resources critical to your enterprise change daily, if not multiple times a day. The technologies affecting supply chain ma ...

  • Sept. 28, 2009
  • 1 post

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Nov. 11, 2009

Steve Christensen,  2 Groups

Michael, As an IT vendor, Babbleware is building the next generation of Enterprise software. While the pace of change may seem faster today it is con ...

Felix P. Nater, CSC

As we look in our rear view mirrors with regard to the security function in our current and past responsibilities, is the situation better, worst or status quo? Are we pleased where things are today o ...

  • Dec. 28, 2009
  • 0 posts

SCM on Mattres Industry

Is really important to focus strategic desitions on SCM features?

  • Nov. 17, 2009
  • 0 posts

Supply chain risk: How do we handle our top suppliers going out of business?

We’re a large heavy industry manufacturing company (construction equipment) and we’ve seen major disruption in our supply chains, since several of our larger suppliers are going out of business. Any ...

  • Sept. 10, 2009
  • 0 posts

Best practices for managing outsourced manufacturing.

We’re a small company that needs to develop a high-tech a manufacturing capacity. We’ll be outsourcing manufacturing to a company in Taiwan and we’re looking for some best practices in how to manage ...

  • Sept. 8, 2009
  • 0 posts

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