Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog announces the publishing of our latest recorded podcast episode: What Should Supply Chain Leaders Expect in 2024. Our podcast conversation focuses on business C-Suite expectations of supply chain leaders in the coming year.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

The Supply Chain Insights Global Summit is a week away. We are currently tabulating the results to publish the report, “Top 15 Supply Chains to Admire.” Supply chain leaders that make the biggest difference build supply chain potential and make small, incremental progress over time.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The Supply Chain Management Review, one of the leading practitioner journals in the field of supply chain, is hosting their first ever conference in November at the Rosemount Hilton at O’Hare Airport in Chicago. The interview is posted on the SCMR website.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

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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Talking Logistics

JUNE 6, 2018

We often talk about the importance of people, process, and technology in Supply Chain Management, but many times the people dimension gets the short end of the stick, especially when most of the headlines today are about cool technology trends like blockchain, artificial intelligence and driverless trucks.

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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. “The growth of machines from chess beginners to Grandmasters is also a progression that is being repeated by countless AI projects around the world.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JUNE 10, 2015

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.

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