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The CSB (U.S. CHEMICAL SAFETY BOARD) is an independent federal agency investigating chemical accidents to protect workers, the public and the environment. On April 13th. 2016 the CSB sent an e-mail to all subscribers with the following title: The U.S. Chemical Safety Board’s investigation into the Macondo (Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Explosion in the Gulf…
In response to the challenges faced by your organization in the current highly competitive marketplace, you take the lead and start to think “outside the box”. You have spent the past several months looking for new sources of supply, and have finally put a deal together to import a key cost driver, resulting in significant…
Strategic planning… a concept that most of us are familiar with and have probably participated in at some point in our careers. And if we haven’t actively participated in the process, we have at least been impacted by the result of it. But is the time and effort invested in creating a strategic plan a…
Many people outside of the Supply Chain world think of the Purchasing department as a function to simply obtain the lowest possible unit cost for the goods and services we need. Although there is some grain of truth in a traditional definition such as this, we in the Supply Chain world understand it to be…