Sourcing and procurement professionals are used to dealing with large swings in demand and supply. But the highs and lows created by the recent bubble and recession were difficult for even the most adept sourcing practitioners. There are some best practices and innovations that can help deal with not just uncertainty in demand and supply, but supplier failures, commodity price volatility, and ...
Shareholders vs Customers: Now is the time for a balanced equation By Mike Hrabe, Quantum Retail Technology, Co-Founder
As I write this, the credit crunch is cementing itself into its second year. It's apparent that households on both sides of the Atlantic are now feeling the pinch brought about by a soaring cost of living, weak income growth, falling house prices and rising mortgage bills. ...
TK Kurien, currently chief executive of Wipro’s eco-energy division, will take over as CEO of Wipro IT Services February 1, replacing current joint CEOs Girish Paranjpe and Suresh Vaswani.
Chairman Azim Premji gives credit to the joint CEOs for bringing Wipro IT Services through the economic downturn, and attributes the upcoming executive change to “a need for a simpler organization ...
A number of pressure points are impacting the supply chain landscape including volatile oil prices, turmoil in the credit & currency markets and a recession. Supply chain networks and distribution strategies that were designed during the era of cheap oil are being redesigned by forward thinking companies that are planning and implanting new strategies to improve service levels and reduce reliance ...
Dell has announced that it is now the world’s first carbon-neutral computer company, effectively setting an example for the entire IT industry. Dell already powers many of its facilities with green energy and has announced a plan to further reduce its worldwide facilities’ greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2015.
Dell intends to accomplish this by continuing to conserve energy, make capital ...
The federal government’s recent focus on small business development is providing small business owners and investors with an exceptional opportunity to access financing. In fact, the $30 billion Small Business Lending Fund is the key component of a new law designed to loosen the credit market for small business loans. By combining debt capital with significant govern- ment loan guarantees, the ...
The U.S. and global recession that began in late 2007 have affected organizations in unprecedented ways. The credit crunch that rocked the wholesale money market during 2008 has spilled over to the commercial debt and loan arena. Many CFOs saw the cost of credit to fund daily operations soar. Many also found their access to external financing barred as bankers struggled to manage their capital ...
Consumers, trading partners, regulators, legislators and shareholders are all demanding that any organization which
accepts credit card payments comply with the credit card industry’s PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). Companies that fail to protect consumer data stand to lose millions of dollars in fines, lost sales, reduced shareholder value and squandered customer ...
Creating and Deploying Predictive Strategies that Drive Customer Value in Marketing, Sales and Risk
Angoss is helping its clients achieve significant revenue growth and measurable return on investment, with systematic productivity improvement in their marketing, sales and risk management operations. We are doing this by helping our clients create predictive models through their data mining ...
This webinar was held on Thursday, February 24th at 12:00 noon EST. We presented some of the key findings from our 2011 Business Priorities Survey.
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Watch an introduction to VisiblEdge, an RFID technology that automates the load and location of forklifts in a warehouse, reducing non-value adding ...
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