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Sales tools are changing but the game remains the same.
For many, the way we network to find and approach potential customers...
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China's manufacturing sector falls sharply - May. 31, 2012 money.cnn.com
China's all-important manufacturing sector took a hit in May, as the...
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Social Media: Should You Monitor Employees? - Manufacturing Executive... manufacturing-executive.com
As social media becomes a pervasive part of life in many parts of the...
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mapping your supply chain
If you can't do it on spreadsheets, what's the easiest way to map...
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Are Your Customers Lying to You?
Here is an interesting article over customer service, and...
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Are portable certifications the answer to the skilled worker gap?
The attached article discusses the last of skilled workers in the...
Manufacturers push skills certificate as good jobs go unfilled - Local - TheSunNews.com -
Manufacturers take note--Global shortage of skilled workers... businessweek.com
Want to find a job? That’s not a problem if you are trained as a...
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Boy Scouts Start Welding
We hear a lot about how the trades are in such high demand. I spoke...
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In Need of Value Chain Transformation?
Listen in to today's webinar at 11:00 a.m. ET. Manufacturing experts...
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Jensen Farms Files for Bankruptcy... foodsafetynews.com
Jensen Farms, the Colorado cantaloupe grower responsible for last...
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how to map a supply chain
With such product variety and process complexity, it must have been...
3M Begins Untangling Its 'Hairballs' - WSJ.com -
Current trends suggest that U.S. consumers could see more products... themadeinamericamovement.com
Many manufacturing businesses in the US where wiped out, by low-cost...
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Should a Company Change Its Identity to Fit the Times?
For many years in the tech world, SAP was known as the company that...
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How Useful Are Skills Certification Programs? - Manufacturing... manufacturing-executive.com
As manufacturers continue to encounter problems finding enough...
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Stephanie
How can we get the younger generation interested in manufacturing?
There is a good discussion on this issue in the Manufacturing-Executive.com community. What are your thoughts? Chime there or right here ...
Attacking the Manufacturing Workforce Issue manufacturing-executive.com
Our mission is to connect, educate, and support a global community of executives working within the manufacturing ecosystem to build a stronger, more vibrant manufacturing industry worldwide.
Patricia
Big Data for Mfg and SCM
This and the Cloud, the future of mfg/scm?
BOSTON — Storing and dealing with data has always been an issue in the age of computing. But in the modern world, with its booming online traffic and transactions and digital sensors in more and more devices, data is...
Stephanie
Can Robots Save U.S. Manufacturing?
New flexible, affordable, and intelligent robots have been invented to fill the skills gap. But what does this mean for the human ...
The New Work Force: The Robot’s Role in the New Manufacturing Workforce - Manufacturing Executive Community manufacturing-executive.com
Our mission is to connect, educate, and support a global community of executives working within the manufacturing ecosystem to build a stronger, more vibrant manufacturing industry worldwide.
Anna
Scorecards and Decision Making Article - It’s Time to Retire Spreadsheets for Good
It’s the 21st Century, stop using spreadsheets to track performance and make critical business decisions!
It’s Time to Retire Spreadsheets for Good processbasedleadership.com
It’s the 21st Century, stop using spreadsheets to track performance and make critical business decisions! Electronic spreadsheets were originally developed in the late 1970s as a replacement tool for bookkeeping tasks...
Patricia
hard to ignore Europe debt load
The more mfg comes back to the US, the less trade deficit for us, the less "drama"
More spending won't rescue Europe's six big spenders finance.fortune.cnn.com
France, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Greece and Portugal have already proven that more government spending actually slows growth. Why do they want to spend even more? Debt dominos FORTUNE -- The leaders of distressed European...
Steve
Leadership Is a Conversation hbr.org
The command-and-control approach to management has in recent years become less and less viable. Globalization, new technologies, and changes in how companies create value and interact with customers have sharply reduced the...
Patricia
how to map a supply chain
With such product variety and process complexity, it must have been quite a task to find common production processes and machines.
3M Begins Untangling Its 'Hairballs' - WSJ.com online.wsj.com
ST. PAUL, Minn.-3M Co.'s Command picture-hanging hooks, made of plastic and strips of sticky foam, don't look complicated. Until a couple of years ago, however, the Command production process meandered more than 1,300 miles...
Jeff
Social Media: Should You Monitor Employees? - Manufacturing Executive Community manufacturing-executive.com
As social media becomes a pervasive part of life in many parts of the world, employers are becoming concerned that its use by employees may lead to security breaches and intellectual property losses. According to a recent Gartner report, 60% of employers will monitor employee Internet usage for security purposes by 2015. While many companies today scan social media sites for marketing and br
Justin
Do ethics become harder during an economic downturn?
Interesting report on the state of ethics in companies durring the economic downturn. I have always viewed ethics as black and white. ...
Bridging the ethical divide cgma.org
About 80% of companies have ethics codes, yet only 36% collect ethics data. Learn more about the “ethical divide.”
Todd
The Surprising Global Shortage in Skilled Workers businessweek.com
Want to find a job? That’s not a problem if you are trained as a technician and looking for work in China or Brazil. Ditto for sales representative, in hot demand in Taiwan and Hong Kong. In Japan, engineers won’t sit...
Patricia
mapping your supply chain
If you can't do it on spreadsheets, what's the easiest way to map your supply chain?
In between attendee meetings and booth duty at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference this week, I was able to attend a good portion of the week's sessions. I'll be providing highlights from a few over the next few days....
Margarita
Reshoring of Some Chinese Manufacturing Jobs Becoming Likely themadeinamericamovement.com
Press Release: The Hackett Group | May 24, 2012 Research Alert: Reshoring of Some Chinese Manufacturing Jobs Becoming Likely As Cost Gap is Expected to Shrink to Just 16 Percent Next Year. Flow of Manufacturing Jobs Between...
Stephanie
In Need of Value Chain Transformation?
Listen in to today's webinar at 11:00 a.m. ET. Manufacturing experts from Toshiba, MIT, and Oracle weigh-in on how to turn a ...
Value Chain Transformation manufacturing-executive.com
Our mission is to connect, educate, and support a global community of executives working within the manufacturing ecosystem to build a stronger, more vibrant manufacturing industry worldwide.
Daniel
Boy Scouts Start Welding
We hear a lot about how the trades are in such high demand. I spoke to a few Executives at the Manufacturing Leadership Summit a few ...
To always be prepared, Boy Scouts start welding msnbc.msn.com
It's not quite fly fishing or hiking, but welding is the latest merit badge Boy Scouts can earn - part of a full-court press to attract fresh talent to the critical occupation. More than 140,000 new welders will be needed by...
Patricia
How to minimize supplier disruptions?
Is it Honda's philosophy (The Honda Way), its systems (BP), or its people (like Rocio in Powered by Honda book) that deliver higher ...
My Purchasing Center :: Purchasing Impact on Honda Profitability mypurchasingcenter.com
Honda of America (Canada, U.S. and Mexico plants) has more than 600 direct suppliers building the 1.87 million vehicles. This is another overt clue as why Honda's profit margins are driven by strategic sourcing. How unusual...
