Archive for This Week in News

This was a busy week for supply chain and logistics conferences, with Manhattan Associates, RedPrairie, and Transplace (among others) holding events this week. With 52 weeks in a year, why cram so many industry events into a single week? I still can’t figure it out, but we’ll share our takeaways from the events we attended next week. In the meantime, here’s the news that caught our attention this week:

    This morning I am giving a presentation on “Putting Leadership Development and Education Back on Your Calendar…and Budget” at the CSCMP New England Roundtable Executive Breakfast. I wrote about this topic last year in “What’s Missing in Your 2012 Budget?” and I’m sure I’ll gain some new insights from this morning’s conversation, which I’ll share in a future posting. In the meantime, here are some news items that caught… Continue reading

    New product introductions and Q1 results dominated the news this week, so let’s get right to it.

    There were several new product announcements this week, so let’s get right to them…

    Should I be concerned that Opening Day for the (1 win, 5 losses) Red Sox falls on Friday the 13th?

    In more important news…