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	<itunes:summary>Viewpoints On the Air is a podcast series produced by Logistics Viewpoints (www.logisticsviewpoints.com), a leading blog for industry executives focused on supply chain and logistics trends, technologies, and services. This podcast series features industry experts Adrian Gonzalez and Steve Banker interviewing leaders in the supply chain and logistics field from manufacturing, retail, third party logistics, and technology companies. Discussion topics include emerging trends in technology and service offerings, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory and legislative developments, and other topics of interest and importance to supply chain and logistics executives.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>JDA Software Focuses on Time to Value</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 13:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All too often, when companies buy and implement supply chain software, you hear a similar story: the implementation took longer than planned and the company grossly underinvested in training. Also, the needed software customization made future upgrades costly and time consuming to the point where upgrade cost and effort often rivaled a brand new implementation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Customize that Warehouse Management System!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Banker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Warehouse Management Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maintenance fees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RedPrairie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RedShift]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended RedPrairie’s RedShift user conference last week in Hollywood, Florida (RedPrairie is an ARC client). There were over 1,000 attendees, the company’s largest event ever. Several high-profile customers were prominent in this year’s proceedings, including Walmart that uses RedPrairie’s store execution products; Kraft that spoke on its implementation of RedPrairie’s flowcasting (demand sensing) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Are the New Vice President of Supply Chain Management! Now What?</title>
		<link>http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2012/05/07/guest-commentary-want-your-mobile-initiative-to-succeed-tie-use-to-compensation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 11:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Banker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just for Fun]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SAP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were hired as the top Supply Chain Management executive at a company, what would be your top three initiatives to improve the company’s capabilities? Here is my list: 1.   Get the right people on board! You can’t accomplish anything else if you don’t have the right talent. The toughest part of the job [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Software Usability: Insights from Infor&#8217;s Inforum 2012 Conference</title>
		<link>http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2012/04/30/the-power-of-software-usability-insights-from-infors-inforium-2012-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Banker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Infor (an ARC client) held its user conference, Inforum 2012, in Denver, Colorado. This year’s conference drew almost 5,000 attendees. Infor is the third largest supplier of enterprise solutions with almost 70,000 customers. Infor is a provider of several different industry-specific enterprise solutions. The company also provides best-of-breed solutions in areas such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trade Growth to Slow in 2012</title>
		<link>http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2012/04/23/trade-growth-to-slow-in-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Banker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Statistics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our weekly news roundup a couple of weeks ago, we briefly reported on the World Trade Organization’s trade figures for 2011. Because global trade is an important topic for supply chain professionals, I thought it was worth digging just a bit deeper. As reported in the WTO press release, “World trade expanded in 2011 [...]]]></description>
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