News You Can Use: 7/13/2016

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  • The Millennials Balancing Their Parents’ Job Searches With Their Own

    This represents a generational role reversal, prodded perhaps by labor-market forces that favor younger workers over older ones. Although the jobless ratedropped below 5 percent last month, figures specific to older workers tell a different story. A recent study found that 55 percent of Americans over 50 plan to work past the age of 65, primarily because they cannot afford to retire sooner. And, as of December 2014, job-seekers over the age of 55 had been unemployed for an average of 54.3 weeks, nearly twice as long as their younger counterparts.

    http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/the-millennials-balancing-their-parents-job-searches-with-their-own/488621/

  • Applying Supply Chain Management to Deliver Faster with Higher Quality

    DevOps loves Deming… Agile has its roots in Deming, as does Lean, and does DevOps… as does TQM and SixSigma… This is just a fuller embrace of what DevOps already loves in Deming.

    More specifically to development, Lean introduced the 8 types of Waste and culture to manage and reduce waste which comes at the cost of delivering code, delivering value, and pleasing/delighting your customers. Software supply chains introduced an unmeasured – and therefore unmanaged – form of waste. Managing out elective re-work can massively improve developer productivity. A Fortune 100 insurance company achieved a 20% boost in developer productivity in the 1st year.

    For Operations, using higher quality projects can reduce service interruptions – as can avoiding elective attack surface of older and known vulnerable versions of otherwise high quality projects. Further, using fewer total versions of the projects you’ve chosen can reduce operational variance in production – improving quality of service delivered.

    Let’s also not forget that the same choices improve security with fewer incidents due to entirely avoidable, elective risk and attack surface. Further, when unavoidable attacks rear their heads, the tracking of which libraries went where (with versions) enable a significantly faster MTTI/MTTR (Mean-Time-To-Identify and Mean-Time-To-Remediate).

    https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/06/supply-chain-management-DevOps

  • Honeywell acquires Intelligrated for $1.5 billion

    Honeywell International Inc. said today it will acquire material handling automation provider Intelligrated Systems Inc. from its private equity owner for $1.5 billion, triggering a second wave of consolidation in the material-handling sector just two weeks after rival systems integrator Dematic Corp. was sold.

    http://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/20170701-honeywell-acqiures-intelligrated-for-15-billion-dollars/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS-articles

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  • Penn State Is a Key Link in the Supply Chain

    Although the 27-year-old organization is still firmly rooted in traditional aspects of distribution, procurement and transportation, research efforts also focus on newer topics such as demand-driven supply networks, human behavior modeling and low-cost country sourcing.

    http://www.assemblymag.com/articles/93475-penn-state-is-a-key-link-in-the-supply-chain

  • Supply Chain Metric of the Month

    APQC defines procure-to-pay cycle time as the time required in days to pay suppliers, starting from the time that the purchase order is placed until the time that payment is made  to the supplier (e.g. procure-to-pay processing time). As shown in Figure 1, research from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in procurement shows that top performing organizations have shorter procure-to-pay cycle times. Top performers have a procure-to-pay cycle time of two months, whereas bottom performers have a cycle time of about a month and a half. At the median organizations have a cycle time of 25 days to pay suppliers, or 11 days longer than top performers. However, organizations at the median have a procure-to-pay cycle time that is almost 3 week less than bottom performers.

    https://www.apqc.org/blog/chain-supply-chain-content-you-can-use-june-2016

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