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The Marketing Supply Chain Field Guide: Part 9 – Materials in the Chain

Over the past eight installments of our Marketing Supply Chain Field Guide we’ve discussed mechanics, functional areas and roles. Now it’s time to open a new chapter and take a look at the goods the marketing supply chain delivers – marketing materials. Admittedly, a deep-dive into marketing materials may not sound like edge-of-your-seat kind of […]
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The Marketing Supply Chain Field Guide: Part 10 – Materials in the Chain (continued)

Last week we began dissecting the catch-all term “marketing materials” to discover just what kinds of items may be flowing through your marketing supply chain. Even as we began our exploration with some of the more common, old-standby sort of marketing communication tools, we saw that there was much more complexity than the simple and […]
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The Marketing Supply Chain Field Guide: Part 7 – Procurement Roles

Any organization that produces materials used in marketing is going to have marketers. There is also always some level of executive and financial management. There are some roles that, depending upon the organization, may not be so simply defined. So Who Does the Procurement in the Marketing Supply Chain? In many organizations the function of […]
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The Marketing Supply Chain Field Guide: Part 6 – Finance Roles

Some combinations just go together well as polar opposites. They are distinctly different from, yet often attract, one another. North and south, fire and ice, good and evil are all classic examples. Marketing and finance is another. Marketing is driven by passion and human nature. Its output equals its success. Its results are born of […]
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eLynxx Solutions Names New COO

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. (May 14, 2014) – Building upon nearly 40 years of innovation, eLynxx Solutions has appointed Nathan Rotz as chief operating officer. eLynxx Solutions is the leading provider of project management software and services for the marketing supply chain. The company serves the logistics, education, utility, manufacturing, consumer goods, service, government, non-profit, association and […]
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Linking the Hard Copy and Digital Worlds

Once upon a time, back in the 1990s, everyone was making predictions about what marketing communications would be like in the new millennium. One prediction I recall seeing demonstrated – more through creative video editing than reality – was being able to hold a flier, postcard or advertisement up to a computer screen and see […]
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The Marketing Supply Chain Field Guide: Part 4

Digital Asset Management – A Link in the Marketing Supply Chain Worth Strengthening One of the promises of the digital office was having all files and documents easily and readily accessible from your desk; no more rifling through filing cabinets and hunting down information from different people in various departments. Unfortunately for many of us, […]
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