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Technology
Should Your Company Pursue End-to-End Digitization?
Powerful, transformative technology can help shock-proof your business from future challenges.
When fully implemented, end-to-end digitization encompasses everything your company does, from sourcing raw materials to following up on sales made through your website—and it's all rooted in data.
Operations
Supply Chain Issues and Business Strategy
Supply chain issues and inflation challenge businesses in unique ways.
Identifying potential shocks to the supply chain ahead of time and proactively addressing them can also help tremendously.
Operations
The Transportation Industry and Inflation
Businesses should prepare now for inflation and transportation disruptions.
The good news is that many of the factors feeding current inflation—pent-up demand, supply chain disruptions and production delays—are temporary conditions that will be alleviated over time.
Operations
How to Make Your Business More Sustainable
How can companies go green and prevent the worst outcomes of climate change?
Allowing employees to continue to work remotely—even part of the week—means fewer cars on the road, reductions to office power consumption and less office waste.
Industry Expertise
How is Healthcare Managing Inflation and the Medical Supply Chain?
Here's how to cope with medical supply chain stress in the short term and prepare for the long term.
Once you commit to a hybrid working environment, refinements will help improve its effectiveness.
Operations
A Resilient Business Is Set Up for Long-Term Success
Learn more about business resilience, why it's important and how to foster it.
Continuity planning manages the "now," but a resilient business has the flexibility to play the long game, too.
Operations
Market Your Properties Effectively by Using Multiple Channels
Learn the pros and cons of each to help you design the most cost-effective approach.
The more distribution channels you use, the more potential property viewings.
Operations
Preparing Your Business for Hurricane Season
Keeping your operations resilient and your risks mitigated takes planning.
Carefully review the exclusions of your insurance policies when preparing for hurricane season.
Accounting
The 411 on Cash Flow Management for Transportation Companies
In transportation firms, managing accounts receivable is crucial to a strong cash management system.
Develop systems for managing accounts receivable that help to boost the bottom line.
Technology
Warehouse Technologies to Streamline the Fulfillment Process
Avoid waste and boost productivity with the latest warehouse technologies.
There are already a number of technology solutions available that are unique to warehouse and fulfillment operations—and even more are on the horizon.
Operations
Keeping Costs Manageable in Logistics
Transportation can be a prime area of opportunity for cost reduction in logistics.
Knowing more about your business ecosystem can make it easier to mitigate threats and discover opportunities.
Finance
Establishing a Strong Manufacturing Partnership
Learn how to have a successful business partnership with a manufacturing contractor.
The right manufacturer should essentially be viewed as an investor in your business, so openness about goals and objectives goes both ways.
Operations
Investing in a Procurement Team Reaps Numerous Benefits
A procurement strategy tied to organizational goals and staffed correctly supports a higher ROI.
Strengthened relationships underpin many of the other benefits your firm can reap from investing in procurement.
Operations
How Retail Investors Are Changing the Game for Businesses
Technology has made retail investors an important part of the market. Here's what to know.
Understanding retail investors and what makes them tick is now more critical than ever.
Operations
How Blockchain Can Help Drive Manufacturing Success
Blockchain applications support and enhance transparency, accountability and security efforts.
From supply chain oversight to enhanced collaborations, blockchain applications can offer great value to your business.
Industry Expertise
Cash Flow Management Is Key in Manufacturing Success
Healthy cash flow management can make manufacturers' operations more stable and streamlined.
Tight production planning and control may prove to be an integral part of cash flow management strategy.
Michelle Chan-Ponder
Area Executive
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