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Supply Chain Matters Podcast Episode 23: What Should Supply Chain Leaders Expect in 2024

Supply Chain Matters

In our conversation, Radu provides a unique perspective from the lens of working on C-Suite focused recruitment needs derived from global based organizations for senior leadership needs spanning overall supply chain, manufacturing, transportation, logistics and E-commerce leadership needs.

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Have you Given your Supply Chain Planner Some Love Today?

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain leaders that make the biggest difference build supply chain potential and make small, incremental progress over time. A Closer Look at Supply Chain Talent. For most, supply chain talent management is challenging.

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Future of Procurement Study Available

Supply Chain View from the Field

The earliest traces of this can be linked to materials management. Charles Babbage’s book on the economy of machinery and manufacturers, published in 1832, referred to the importance of the purchasing function. Procurement has a history that is linked in the core concepts of centralization, volume leveraging, and cost reduction.

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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

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Talent Management in Logistics: Why It’s More Important than Ever

Talking Logistics

If you think about the most successful companies of our time, the ones that have created real, sustained value, they are laser-focused on having great talent and a high-performing culture.”.

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Interview: Get ready for Supply Chain Outlook conference!

Supply Chain View from the Field

I will be delivering a session on the Value of Procurement, as part of the noise we’re creating around the new book “ The Procurement Value Proposition “ As part of this promotion, I recently did an interview on what I plan on covering at this event. The interview is posted on the SCMR website.

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

Supply Chain View from the Field

A recent review by Peter Smith of my new book , “The Procurement Value Proposition”, co-authored with Gerard Chick, provides some solid support for the message Gerard and I were seeking to develop. Peter Smith is a writer for the organization Spend Matters , which has spawned a UK division as well.