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2024: Planning for Success Amid the Uncertainty

Logistics Viewpoints

Sourcing and procurement comes in close second at 88 percent, followed by innovation at 87 percent. Logistics and inventory management rounds out the top four focus areas at 82 percent. Other critical functions include order management, manufacturing, and product development. Remember that talent management matters.

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Boston Procurement Leaders part 3: Talent Management Challenges

Supply Chain View from the Field

One of the most interesting panels from the Boston Procurement Leaders conference was focused on Talent Management. We heard from a number of speakers on the subject of how the need for talent is shifting dramatically in the years ahead. The Vendor Management team are starting to sound like banking regulators.

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Which supply chain and procurement skills will best equip us for the future?

Procurement Academy

For those of us working in the field of supply chain and procurement education, it’s an open secret. But the same is most emphatically not true of supply chain and procurement. Data analytics. Business schools and conventional approaches to supply chain and procurement education struggle to keep pace with all this change.

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Availability of Part Two Research Report- Your Workforce: The Most Critical Link in Supply Chain Capability

Supply Chain Matters

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group , through its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog, announces the release of a second published research advisory in an overall three-part series: The Importance of Supply Chain and Human Resources Strategy Alignment for Addressing Talent Recruitment and Retention Needs- Part Two.

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Availability of Research Report- Your Workforce: The Most Critical Link in Supply Chain Capability

Supply Chain Matters

Further included was manufacturing talent needs, and with consideration for moving outsourced production to domestic sourcing, the needs for retaining a highly skilled manufacturing talent in conjunction with factory automation. Management skills. Availability of Part Two Research Advisory. Remaining Report.

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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. We believed that it would be helpful to multi-industry supply chain podcast audience that conversation and insights relative to talent management from the lens of an enterprise technology provider would have value.

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“Procurement at a Crossroads”: Spot On and Makes You Think

NC State SCRC

I had a chance to review the new book by Jim Hansen and Kelly Barner, “ Procurement at a Crossroads “, which explores the many changes that the profession is facing, and challenges individuals to do things differently. (I The authors also go through and explore a number of other procurement issues that are often debated.