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

Supply Chain Matters

This update addresses the equally growing importance for securing and retaining needed talent for companies who are considering or have invested in more responsive Cloud based software technology supporting tactical and operational planning supporting process and batch manufacturing process environments.

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Snapshot of 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Part Three

Supply Chain Matters

With the overall management focus turning to an economic recessionary stance of likely added cost control and cash preservation actions, CFO ’s and Chief Supply Chain Officers will likely have difficult decisions to make during 2023.

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Behind the Numbers of the SCRC Supply Management Index

NC State SCRC

In effect the team must educate themselves through a detailed analysis of the marketplace and identify how best to meet the forecasted demand (generated by the spend analysis and interviews with stakeholders) given the market conditions that will occur in the next year. Manufacturers or the U.S. chemicals, resins, IT providers).

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2018: Real-Time, Innovation, Cognitive, Blockchain, Industry-Academic Partnerships, and Taking a Stand!

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Supplier driven innovation was also a major theme at the Procurement Leaders meeting in Miami this spring. I also wrote about this in the context of “ heedful interrelating ” between people working in the same supply chain. This is how innovation ultimately occurs. What a difference a year makes!