You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down

| Liz Kislik

IN THIS DEPRESSING JOB MARKET, I’ve met with numerous managers who are looking for advice, referrals, or sometimes just a pleasant conversation with someone

Cajun Country

| D. Douglas Graham

WHILE ANDOUILLE SAUSAGE, boudin balls, and authentic Zydeco music may be abundantly available in New Orleans, if you Jones for such stuff in Winnipeg

Psyched Up

| Peter A. Buxbaum

Two heads are better than one. That’s probably the simplest way to describe the advantages of collaborative supply chain forecasting. Business processes,

No Peace, No Profits

| MCM staff

Aside from the fact that I really don’t like to shop, I made an extra effort to avoid the mall scene over the holidays, and I was not alone. Market research

A WINNING Combination

| Jeff Siegel

Three years ago, when Circuit City was puzzling over how to set up its e-commerce fulfillment system, the electronics retailer could have gone in any

Warehouses Woo Absent Workers

| Barbara Arnn

The Dec. 2002 issue of WERCwatch reports on warehouse employee attendance trends and ways to manage absenteeism. With the annual cost of absenteeism rising

Shopping in a Coffin-Cold Aisle

| MCM staff

THE MOOD at the National Retail Federation’s annual conference wasn’t so much downbeat as might be expected as erratic: up one minute, down the next.