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Will Arrogance Stunt your Growth?

Supply Chain Shaman

You can read some of my thoughts in my past blog posts at: Work on the Supply Chain Index. Amazon can now deliver almost every category of item to your home with no shipping cost for Amazon Prime customers. Open Content Research Risk management Sales and Operations Planning Supply Chain Uncategorized Outside-in supply chains'

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3 Key Complexities You Must Address in Your Supply Chain in 2014 – Part I

BlueYonder

As part of our Expert Insight series, Supply Chain Nation recently sat down with Gordon Wade, chief executive officer and director of best practices for the Category Management Association. What do you see happening in the marketplace today? Wade: One of the major things happening in the world is individualization.

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SCM World 2014 Chief Supply Chain Officer Report: A Conversation with Kevin O’Marah – Part IV

BlueYonder

Apple, in the same general category, although Foxconn manufactures their products, is virtually integrated in the sense that their personnel, their technology, and increasingly, heavily, equipment that they have bought is what is operating in those Foxconn plants. Featured Supply Chain Uncategorized'

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Procurement and supply chain executives are struggling in the current environment of high inflation and missed deliveries.

NC State SCRC

In one instance, I heard a story of a senior procurement executive called in front of his board, and asked to provide a synopsis of which categories of third party spend would be the bottleneck if demand were to double next year. Supply market intelligence will become a crucial capability in this market.

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Human Resource Planning for Procurement, Contract Management, and Supply Chain Management

NC State SCRC

In general, we find that they can be in the following categories: Jacks of all Trades tend to be able to adapt quickly to situations in a supporting role. We also need to give some thought as to the different roles that procurement and supply chain managers play on teams. These people perform best with medium-level activities.

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Behind the Numbers of the SCRC Supply Management Index

NC State SCRC

In this blog, I’ll explain a bit more about the rating criteria we used to assess firms. Yung-Yun’s algorithm scanned tens of thousands of targeted news and company reports to develop the ratings in each category. Let me describe the two categories highlighted in the journal article. chemicals, resins, IT providers).

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Which Industries are Most Affected by Fed Rate Increases?

NC State SCRC

NC State statistics grad students, Shaoyu Wang and Bryan Bittner collectively worked on a project to analyze the impact of the federal rate hikes on various industrial sectors. I challenged them to see if the impact of federal rate hikes could be observed on other industries – and here is what they discovered.