MORTAL COMBAT

| MCM staff

Infighting, bad-mouthing, and office politics typically add 40% to 70% to the level of effort required to carry out any given task, reports CLM.

Weights and Measures

| MCM staff

A SPEAKER AT A RECENT CONFERENCE described a benchmarking survey that his research firm had sent to leading retailers. At over 75 pages in length, and

India Inc.

| MCM staff

There’s no rubbing out India’s growing presence in international business. The country’s dominance in business process outsourcing is spreading far beyond

Customer Service

| Jeff Morris

DR. JON ANTONDirector, Benchmark ResearchCCDQ, Purdue University We all have our own stories of customer service nightmares. Our favorite is the time

HISTORY LESSON

| Jeff Siegel

THE STATISTICS seem to bear out the headlines. Capital spending has increased after two years of recession, and companies up and down the supply chain

Win the Best Freight Rates

| MCM staff

That carriers’ shipping rates will go up every year is almost as inevitable as the proverbial death and taxes. This year, though, companies aren’t just

Global Conquest

| D. Douglas Graham

GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL of Port Washington, NY (a division of Systemax Inc.), is a leading provider of industrial equipment. In business for half a century,