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Top 10 Supply Chain Management Courses to Boost Your Career

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Fortunately, there are numerous courses available to help you develop your expertise in supply chain management, regardless of your level of experience. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the top 10 supply chain management courses that can take your career to the next level. Ratings of each course will also be included.

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6 Essential Procurement Training Courses for Professionals: How To Begin and Advance Your Career in Procurement

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Whether you’re an aspiring procurement enthusiast or a seasoned professional aiming to advance your career, investing in procurement training and procurement training courses can be a game-changer. Take into account things like your current skill level, desired improvement areas, and professional objectives.

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Congrats to the Winners of the Supply Chains to Admire 2023

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The group’s response is, “Are these supply chain metrics?” ” For many stuck in the myriad of functional metrics, like Operational Efficiency (OEE), Purchase Price Variance (PPV), or transportation cost, a focus on growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) is a stretch.

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Embracing the Supply Chain as A Complex Non-linear System

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Customer-centric Innovation Drives Value. Intuitive Surgical, L’Oreal, and Sleep Number drove excellence through product and service innovation to outperform their peer groups. Consider the role of functional metrics and the lack of alignment with the corporate scorecard.) The gaps widened in the past five years.

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The 10 Procurement Metrics that Matter in 2021

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A robust procurement strategy should explain how an organisation seeks to optimise the businesses external spend, procurement costs and other value contributions such as product innovation, spend reduction and process efficiency. Creating new opportunities by investing in supplier partnerships and joint innovations.

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Supply Chain Leaders, Chained to Tradition, Face the Whip

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One of my stark realizations this year is that smaller companies are beating larger and often more established companies on growth metrics, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). (In The metrics selection resulted from work with Arizona State University in 2013.) Driving process innovation agendas.

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Side-stepping the Pitfalls of a Digital Strategy for 2022

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Laggards mosey down a path of vague terms and goals without questioning the need to reskill to drive process innovation. How do we design work systems to align organizations and ensure that there is the right balance of reward systems with metrics? In the design of the digital program, spend time on metrics and reward systems.