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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>Benchmarking Your Competitor: Get Your Hands on their Vendor Guide!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you want to understand the supply chain capabilities of your key competitors? Or gain insights into how their supply chains are structured? If your competitor is a large company, they almost certainly have a vendor guide. And if you type their name and “vendor guide” into a search engine, there’s a good chance you’ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Commentary: Retailers and Manufacturers Must Rethink their Planning and Fulfillment Strategies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fabrizio Brasca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an interesting time to be a supply chain professional. We are seeing a convergence of revolutionary trends that are causing retailers and their manufacturing suppliers to truly re-think how they approach their planning and fulfillment strategies. Here are some examples: Multi-Channel Retailing. Not long ago, a retailer’s transportation focus was on loading trucks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week in Logistics News (February 20-24, 2012)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Gonzalez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are three bedrooms upstairs, two decent-sized ones and the other the size of a mouse trap, dark and forgotten, its walls painted black, and off to the side an old Singer sewing machine resting on a small wooden desk. “This will be your room,” my parents said to me with a smile (I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Et tu, Apple?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Gonzalez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can a company that is so innovative in so many aspects of its business, also be so ordinary (or worse, the opposite of innovative) in others? Apple has received a lot of negative press lately about its supplier practices in China, including an article published last week in The New York Times titled, “In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missed Alarms: What Can Hospitals Learn from SCM Best Practices?</title>
		<link>http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2012/01/30/missed-alarms-what-can-hospitals-learn-from-scm-best-practices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Banker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of December, the Boston Globe published an article titled, “Wide heart monitor use tied to missed alarms.&#8221; I had a strong feeling I had read that article before, and then I realized I was having a déjà vu moment &#8212; ARC had published a strategy report in 2004 focused on alarm management [...]]]></description>
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