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South Portland-based Wright Express Corp. announced Friday that it has acquired the assets of rapid! PayCard, a privately held Tampa, Fla., company that provides payroll debit cards, e-paystubs and e-W2s.
Terms of the all-cash deal were not disclosed. Wright Express is a global provider of payment processing and information management services, with its core business in fleet management offerings.
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In today's increasingly competitive environment, survival depends on two key aspects of being market-oriented - understanding the external environment and executing decisions based on that understanding. Logistics personnel are uniquely positioned to play a key role in creating and maintaining a market-oriented organization as they are progressively gaining more responsibilities in integrating cross-functional processes and implementing supply chain strategies. This paper explores how logisticians participate in market orientation behaviors and how a market-oriented logistics function impacts logistics and business performance. Based on a qualitative field research study involving in-depth interviews with seventeen logistics personnel that draws and builds upon the logistics, market ori...
... business fields (e.g., strategic management, accounting, human resources, information systems,..., knowledge management, and information processing research posit that the impact of intelligence dis...
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... an organized collection of facts and information, such as records on employees, inventory, customer...
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ISBN: 9781605668888
TITLE: Web-based supply chain management and digital signal processing; methods for effective information administration and trans...
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In accordance with Section 3507(j) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for emergency review and processing this information collection by March 5, 2012. NCI is requesting emergency processing of this information collection, pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.13, because NCI cannot reasonably comply with the normal clearance procedures which would cause a delay and likely prevent or substantially disrupt the collection of information. A delay in starting the information collection would hinder the agency in accomplishing its mission to the detriment of the public good. Public harm could result through the loss of critically needed information to under...
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A significant portion of the services industry is focused on providing services (medical, legal, financial, personal, and travel) to individuals. However, studies have shown that a less visible but rapidly growing segment of the service sector comprises firms that provide business functions to other businesses. The sector covers tasks such as payroll processing, procurement, and information systems management, as well as business consulting, technical support, call center operations, and software development. Firms may choose to purchase, rather than perform, these business functions to reduce costs, to mitigate risk, or simply to focus on their processes that provide marketplace differentiation. Transferring a business function from within a firm to an outside supplier is often called ...
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Don Rigby, a 20-year veteran in the economic development business, said he has partnered with college and university presidents, Ohio County Commission, the city of Wheeling and local school systems to collect contact information. Rigby said employment opportunities currently available include jobs in information technology, accounting, finance, business processing, public relations and retail management.
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Business Editors
PORTLAND, Ore. & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 2002
Partnership to Focus on WBEM and the CIM Event Model
Distributed Managem...
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A lot of attention has been focused on the subprime mortgage crisis over the last two years. But there is another credit crisis looming on the horizon, a further threat to the US economy. That crisis is the steadily rising level of consumer credit card debt, and it has the potential of being every bit as serious as the housing crisis that preceded it. James Ackerson and others in the CU industry feel credit card programs are among the best ways for a credit union to secure a relationship with its members. Ackerson is VP/portfolio management at Fidelity National Information Services Inc, a core processor and card and transaction processing provider based in Jacksonville, FL. He concedes that many CU executives feel they are better off focusing on home mortgages than on card accounts. Cre...
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The Third International Conference on Knowledge Management "will bring together academics, researchers, developers, practitioners and users in the areas of knowledge management, innovation and information processing." Conference on Research & Development of Information Retrieval is the "major international forum for the presentation of new research results and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval." The topics that will be discussed at the Second Social Forum of Information, Documentation, and Libraries (SFIDL) include information, libraries, and archives in society and the State; the social and ethical responsibility of the information professional; legislative framework in information sciences; document record, production, an...