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Supply Chain Matters Podcast Episode 17- Needs for More Diverse Supply Chain Talent from the Lens of Technology.

Supply Chain Matters

There is a growing consensus that existing supply chain and talent management processes and technology need a rethink. Terri has spent nearly a decade leading various SCM product marketing efforts to promote Oracle ’s product lifecycle management, manufacturing, maintenance, and order management solutions.

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Upcoming Supply Chain matters Podcast: Needs for More Diverse Supply Chain Talent

Supply Chain Matters

There is a growing belief that existing supply chain and talent management processes and technology need a rethink. This blog has provided a series of prior commentaries focused on the very important topic of supply chain talent recruitment, retention and re-skilling.

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Recognizing International Women’s Day 2022

Supply Chain Matters

Bringing diverse people and thereby diverse perspectives into the workplace leads to a greatly enhanced ability to generate ideas and problem solve, which lead to solutions, innovation and business transformation.”.

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What Recruiters are Looking For in Supply Chain Students….

Supply Chain View from the Field

Creative, innovative thinker with a bias for action. Data analytic skills w/ strong attention to detail. Resilience – the ability to deal effectively with adversity without affecting your performance (dealing with good days & bad days). Leadership (Amazon’s 14 leadership principles).

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Review of “Procurement Value Proposition” misses the point…ISO “Mr. Impossible”!

Supply Chain View from the Field

In my most recent blog, I described the type of person that organizations such as Apple are seeking to find : tech savvy, smart, humble, able to work on unstructured projects with challenging requirements, analytically oriented, and most of all, willing to learn and take on new problems! My co-author Gerard Chick concurs.

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The Digital Supply Chain Will Change Everything… Ask Gary Kasparov!

NC State SCRC

Using the example of driving and “trusting” the Waze app to take one down the right street to avoid traffic, participants noted that Deere managers will have a hard time trusting new systems and follow their guidance. The change management portion of analytics will be a bigger inhibitor than the software and hardware changes.

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Creating the Right Team Culture for Transparent Supply Chains: Storytelling as a Core Capability

NC State SCRC

Very few managers teach their direct reports how to do this, and it is certainly not taught in most university analytics and supply chain classes. But it is such an essential part of what is needed to manage in the digital economy. The essence of this involves an ability to tell ourselves a “story” around the data.