USA Today’s Jayne O’Donnell and Ben Mitchell report that most U.S.-based retailers are not ready to sign a Bangladesh factory safety plan drafted by labor groups. The plan is in response…
Travel Procurement Services Providers Speak Up
Business Travel News‘ Jay Campbell shares what he learned after having discussions with travel procurement services providers Procurian, Accenture and IBM. Here are some key take-aways: There is a keen…
The Global Procurement Outsourcing Market: A New Report
TechNavio has released a new report, “Global Procurement Outsourcing Market 2012-2016.” The report predicts that the global procurement outsourcing market will grow at a CAGR of 23.14 percent over the…
Is Adobe's Shift To the Cloud the Start Of a Trend?
Adobe has announced that it will transition Creative Suite (shrink-wrap version), which includes Photoshop, toward Creative Cloud, a subscription-based service for software and updates. Creative Suite’s traditional business model “revolved…
10 Ways Cloud Computing Is Revolutionizing Manufacturing
Forbes contributor Louis Columbus lists the ten ways manufacturers are using cloud computing to revolutionize manufacturing. Here are some of the key ways: Capturing and applying company-wide intelligence and knowledge…
Human Rights and Sustainable Supply Chains: How Do Companies Rate?
Rob Handfield, Co-Director of the SCRC (The Supply Chain Resource Cooperative) at NC State University’s Poole College of Management, writes about the increasing death toll at the Rama factory complex in…
Eric Schmidt on Disruptive Technologies
“Computational biology. 3-D printing. Autonomous vehicles.” In this video, which is the first in a series of interviews by McKinsey & Company, Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, looks into the…
A Tool To Track "Supply Chain Footprint"
Drew Olanoff (TechCrunch) introduces a new tool, SupplyShift, for those companies who want to track the environmental impact of their suppliers. “What SupplyShift really is is a network which allows…