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			<title>What Role Will Big-Data Play in Electronics?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Electronics vendors are starting to use big-data in supply chain management, but they can do a lot more with the technology.]]></description>
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			<title>Will 2013 Be the Year of Big-Data?</title>
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			<dc:creator>Barbara Jorgensen</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Electronics makers are looking to leverage the advantages of big-data in forecasting and demand planning. How successful will they be?]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>McLendon Takes Reins at Allied</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Like other catalogue distributors, Allied is moving beyond the catalogue model and taking the "multichannel" approach to distribution.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>The Changing Role of Software in the Supply Chain</title>
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			<dc:creator>Barbara Jorgensen</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Manufacturers use software and data for varied purposes in supply chain management, but key goals such as visibility remain paramount.]]></description>
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			<title>The Personal Tablet vs. the Shared PC</title>
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			<dc:creator>Barbara Jorgensen</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Gartner envisions a world where tablets become the personal device of choice and PCs become a shared resource.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Why PCs Aren't Selling</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Tablets aren't better than PCs for many functions, so why are PCs trying to become more like tablets?]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Upgradeable TV: Brilliant or Crazy?</title>
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			<dc:creator>Barbara Jorgensen</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Instead of buying new TVs, consumers would buy a box that upgrades their current set. It is a boon or bust for the supply chain?]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>E-Waste: Not Easy at All</title>
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			<dc:creator>Barbara Jorgensen</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[There are so many rules associated with e-waste collection that well-intended consumers might just give up.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Digi-Key Evolves From Prototype to Production</title>
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			<dc:creator>Barbara Jorgensen</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Digi-Key discovered and set out to bridge a gap between the traditional catalogue and production distribution businesses.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Factoring Oversupply Into Supply Chain Relationships</title>
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			<dc:creator>Barbara Jorgensen</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[The electronics supply chain has been badly burned by excess in the past. The danger remains, despite efforts to contain double ordering.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 10:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Finding &amp; Securing Hard-to-Find Parts</title>
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			<dc:creator>Barbara Jorgensen</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[OEMs, component makers, distributors, and supply chain partners must collaborate to resolve challenges related to procuring scarce parts.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>The Design Is Done: Now What?</title>
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			<dc:creator>Barbara Jorgensen</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[For a successful product launch, other departments and groups must get involved well before the design engineers complete their task.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Resolving Design Chain vs. Supply Chain Conflicts</title>
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			<dc:creator>Barbara Jorgensen</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Design engineers traditionally haven't been a part of the classic supply chain. You are at a disadvantage if you haven't roped them in.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>The Channel Reaches Out to Design Engineers</title>
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			<dc:creator>Barbara Jorgensen</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Distributors are offering research materials to design engineers, and becoming essential to the establishment of an efficient design chain.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Same-Day Delivery: Logistics' New Battleground?</title>
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			<dc:creator>Barbara Jorgensen</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Same-day delivery could save million of dollars' worth of factory downtime and make buyers a hero]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:20:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Making Sense of Social in the Supply Chain</title>
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			<dc:creator>Barbara Jorgensen</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Everyone agrees social media has a role to play in business communication, but nobody know what that role will be.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Think Global</title>
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			<dc:creator>Barbara Jorgensen</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[There is no Asian supply chain, or North or South American supply chain: The supply chain is global.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:14:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Managing Talent in the Age of the Dragon</title>
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			<dc:creator>Barbara Jorgensen</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[The fight for professional talent by high-tech companies will intensify due to the growing role of China in the supply chain.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Distribution Adjusts Its Business Model in China</title>
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			<dc:creator>Barbara Jorgensen</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Electronics distributors, which serve both component makers and customers in China, are refining their business model in the country.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:35:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Corporate Taxes: No Safe Haven</title>
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			<dc:creator>Barbara Jorgensen</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[The US has been trying to get US-based multinationals to pay taxes on revenue generated outside the country for years. Now Europe is going after multinationals.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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