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Ultimate Endless Real Estate Costs at Red Lobster
Red Lobster is the largest seafood chain in the United States. It buys 20 percent of North American lobster tails…
June 16, 2024
GPOs as Value Drivers within Private Equity Procurement
“There is no perfect data today. In the absence of that, we have to take the knowns and extrapolate from…
February 29, 2024
Time to Return to Just-in-Time?
“Wisdom is given equally to everybody. The point is whether one can exercise it.” - Taiichi Ohno, The “Ten Precepts”…
September 14, 2023
The Cold, Hard Facts About Cold Chain Logistics
The term “cold chain” was first used in 1908 to describe meat industry storage and transportation in and out of…
September 12, 2023
5 Common Myths About GPOs
At Categorypalooza 2023, Brian Halpin, VP and General Manager at Procure Analytics, led a session on the complexities and opportunities…
September 7, 2023
Nerves of U.S. Steel
“You can’t unscramble eggs.” – J.P. Morgan U.S. Steel was formed in 1901 when J.P. Morgan financed the merger of…
August 31, 2023
Dodging the Urban Doom Loop
In the book “Good to Great,” Jim Collins wrote about the flywheel effect, a prosperous cycle of work and adjustment…
August 27, 2023
[Pod] Elevating the ROI of Business Travel
“The largest corporations that spend the most on business travel are generally at about 75% of their 2019 spend, and…
August 24, 2023
Who is to blame for Yellow’s demise?
On July 30th, 2023, Yellow announced that they would cease operations after 99 years and declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy just…
