Supply Chain Matters

JULY 12, 2023

The following is a continuation of a supply chain technology thought leadership education series developed in collaboration with Replan. Such an environment requires manufacturing and supply chain processes to be able to more proactively sense, pivot and respond to constant or rapidly changing market conditions.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 29, 2013

Some believe that talent management is “too important” to be left to HR managers alone, who may not understand the critical needs of front-line supply chain managers, and the complex situations they are facing. ” These types of questions can be analytically modeled.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 21, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group announces that our latest Research Advisory, 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains is now available for reading. In a prior five-part series of commentaries hosted on Supply Chain Matters , we have provided snapshots of five of our ten predictions for 2023.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 21, 2017

A lot of blogs and writers are discussing the role of machines vs. humans and their relationship, especially in the context of supply chain management. Human nature is simply out of sync with the nature of technological development. This needs to be explicitly accounted for in developing talent strategies.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 15, 2016

An article published in the Wall Street Journal identifies what I have been saying for years now… Supply chain talent is a hot commodity! Many of the skills that we’ve identified in prior posts on this site have discussed the key skills and knowledge that recruiters are looking for in supply chain students.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 8, 2022

This Editor thought it appropriate for Supply Chain Matters to share perspectives relative to women in supply chain management and businesses generally. Supply Chain Matters has been provided personal perspectives from female executives and contributors, some of which we wanted to share.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JUNE 10, 2015

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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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 4, 2015

We talked about how procurement needs to think about the five core “game changers” that are going on in the world, including the balance of power, technology, globalization, demographics, and sustainability. But you still have responsibility for the lower rungs of the ladder!

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

But they also tackle the issue of data and predictive analytics, pointing to the fact that prediction is much more difficult than historical reviews of what happened in the past. They look at the public versus private sector procurement, a topic which is indeed very brave of them to broach!

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 15, 2021

The SCRC’s Supply Management Maturity Index was highlighted in a recent Wall Street Journal article , that identified the companies best prepared to weather the storm ahead in terms of supply chain disruptions. As one manager noted, “Supply market intelligence may be the only competitive advantage of the future!”.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 12, 2016

This was a lot of planning, a lot of analytics, and a lot of work. Marsh did not have centralized approach to supply chain management. But because of their less mature supply chain organization, the net income percentage was in the low single digits. We would never move that material!”.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 22, 2017

I had an opportunity to work on a number of exciting projects this past year, and in the process, spent a lot of time talking about digital supply chains with a lot of really informed people. It argues that it would rather the software works for Flex than Flex works for the software. Amazon also optimizes for speed.

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