Sure, you’ve always run a nimble supply chain operation. After all, success usually is determined by your ability to stop and turn on a dime — while leaving a little leftover change.

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Tags: economy, LTL, procurement, shipments, supply chain, WMS

You’d think that finding millions in gold and silver coins would be good news for investors who were short-changed on what was supposed to be guaranteed profits.

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Tags: banker, coin, investment, scheme

Chances are, you know someone who’s been laid off recently. How can you keep from becoming the next victim of the current economic crunch?

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Tags: document, procurement, profitability, purchasing

Hey – did you get the notice in your Inbox about how you can make money by simply forwarding messages, to help Microsoft and AOL test an e-mail tracking system?

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Tags: Internet, spam

Rats! Just missed another early payment discount, because your paperwork got bogged down somewhere in the invoice-processing black hole?

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Tags: discount, early payment, IADM, purchase order

No matter how much technology or other aspects of the workplace might grow and change, you can count on certain constants: Personalities that can bog down performance and muddy your goals.

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Tags: bully, gossip, personalities, policies

What happens when it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight — and you don’t want to shell out nearly $40 for an express delivery?

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Tags: DHL, electronic contract, FedEx, overnight, procurement, purchasing, shipping, UPS

Think you have trouble with clock watchers? There’s a bunch of folks out there who are paid to watch the clock — extremely closely.

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Tags: clock

This is NOT another one of those news articles telling you that the only way you can solve your distribution center problems is to buy a high-cost, high-speed inventory sortation system.

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Tags: conveyor, distribution center, inventory, picking, shipping, sorting

OK, so you didn’t need the fiscal geniuses to figure out the dark cloud of recession has cast its shadow over U.S. businesses. But there still are moves you can make now to keep you a step ahead.

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Tags: discounts, procurement, recession, shipping, WMS