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The Plight Before Christmas

Companies have learned some useful lessons about demand planning, but will improved forecasting techniques guarantee happy holidays?

July 15, 2010

For the first few months of this year, the U.S. economy was moving steadily toward recovery. The Credit Managers' Index (CMI), a key indicator of corporate economic trends, registered a rise each month from August 2009 until April 2010, and other benchmarks gave cause for optimism. Read more...

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