Supply Chain Matters

MAY 12, 2022

Talent recruitment challenges already existed in many industry areas prior to the global pandemic and have since grown more concerning.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Cited data from Wards Intelligence indicates that the current five production facilities with work stoppages account for about 16 percent of vehicle produced by all three auto makers this year.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 14, 2022

We anticipate that businesses and their supply chain management teams will not be able to address their enhanced visibility to multiple-tiered supply network risks without more effectively tackling a multi-layered data and information rationalization strategy.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 14, 2023

Regarding specifically cited hiring challenges, the four top areas that survey respondents indicate as key required skills were: End-to-end supply chain knowledge (57 percent) Supply chain transformation experience (operations and process improvements) (43 percent) Data analysis and reporting capabilities (41 percent) Integrated supply chain experience (..)

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 11, 2023

Supply Chain Matters readers may be familiar with the widely followed Annual Salary and Career Survey conducted by the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM).

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

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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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 31, 2022

Talent recruitment challenges already existed in many industry areas prior to the global pandemic and have since grown more concerning.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 21, 2017

A central issue that emerged from discussions I’ve had with executives in the last month is the importance of the three big shifts occurring in terms of defining organizational governance, establishing the talent requirements for the change, and building the right level of trust between enterprises to share data.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 6, 2016

Various financial, performance, and geopolitical data and information must be gathered, analyzed, and plotted by non-core supplier ( those that the buyer spends less than $500k with ). Specifically will involve gathering required financial / performance / geopolitical data inputs and complete grading and plotting the non-core supply base.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Data analytic skills w/ strong attention to detail. Creative, innovative thinker with a bias for action. Leadership (Amazon’s 14 leadership principles). Customer focus willingness to go above and beyond to satisfy the customer. Business acumen – understands the business and what drives it.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Spend truths will require improved data enrichment, supplier truth is about understanding multiple dimensions of our suppliers, and social truth is an accepted truth around sustainability and doing the right thing, which must bring facts to underscore it.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 15, 2021

SMI involves external market research identifying information on key suppliers, available capacity, technology trends, price and cost data and trends, technical requirements, environmental and regulatory issues, and any other data that is available. The data can be collected in a number of ways. chemicals, resins, IT providers).

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 21, 2017

A core element in the LIVING supply chain is the concept around the “Anti-Control Tower”, of what has been called a “data democracy”. Given the explosion of data that we are exposed to, it is important that people are given accurate information, in order to transfer the data into knowledge, and create good habits?

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 4, 2015

Most spend management looks at historical spending – which is interesting, but doesn’t tell you where the puck is going! As one executive I met with said: “It is important to have meaningful data – but what you do with it is the issue. Can you form insights that are actionable? That is the real question!”.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Stuart discussed the need for a supply chain Swiss Army knife skill set. On any given day, he has to pull one of many tools and skills to deal with the problem du jour.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The ongoing 2023 holiday fulfillment period thus far appears to reflect some product spending, but the data indicates that spending is clearing being influenced by product promotions and discounting. They further prioritized spending more towards post-pandemic experiences related to travel, vacations or entertainment.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 22, 2017

” Real-time data sharing will become more important then ever in driving quality improvements , but will hinge largely on the ability of organizations to build effective data governance strategies to control how data is managed and collected. Upstream increases leverage and profitability.”

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 14, 2017

Kirk Skaugen, Executive VP and President of the Data Center Group at Lenovo, spoke to the group on some key lessons that he learned throughout his career, which began at Intel more than 20 years ago. Kirk’s advice was I thought something that all supply chain students need to hear.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

automotive supply chain footprint is the unique nature of existing auto assembly and supplier production sites where foreign based auto manufacturers have elected to primarily locate production within U.S. Specifically for the U.S. southern states where right to work and non-union labor laws are practiced. Midwest sector.

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