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Have you Given your Supply Chain Planner Some Love Today?

Supply Chain Shaman

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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#15 in 15 years ….not bad! NC State breaks into the Gartner Supply Chain Program Rankings

Supply Chain View from the Field

A new Gartner 2014 Top US Supply Chain MBA Program Rankings report of top supply chain MBA programs within the United States came out yesterday – with the NC State Jenkins MBA and the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative making the list for the first time ever! This most certainly applies to NC State.

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ASCM 2023 Conference and a Conversation with ASCM’s CEO

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters shares interview highlights with ASCM CEO Abe Eshkenazi in conjunction with this years ASCM CONNECT 2023 Conference. The Event The Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) recently concluded its ASCM CONNECT 2023 North America Conference.

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Reports Indicate Walmart Cutting Salary Staff

Supply Chain Matters

In this Supply Chain Matters capsule update commentary, we highlight published reports this week indicating that retailer Walmart is initiating added salaried staff reductions. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. with upwards of 1.7 million employees.

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Winning Student Posters Focus on Visibility, Total Cost of Ownership, and Procurement Processes

Supply Chain View from the Field

John Deere – Supply Chain Visibility – MBA Team: Jessica Newsome, Nithin Seshandri, Delia Smith, Bo Zhang – Project Sponsor: Mark Burton, John Deere. A big part of the event involved the bi-annual student poster competition. Executives voted on the best poster, and voted the following in the top three: 1.

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Labor Strike Targeting Three U.S. Automakers- Update Four

Supply Chain Matters

In this fourth Supply Chain Matters reader update, we highlight this week’s developments related to ongoing UAW labor strike involving the big three U.S. big three automakers with implications to their supply networks vs. prior strategies in targeting just one. auto companies. Stay tuned. All rights reserved.

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The Renewed Importance of Production Planning and Scheduling in the New Normal- The Talent Challenge

Supply Chain Matters

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.