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Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Supply Chain Management! (Or is that 4,000 years?)

Supply Chain Game Changer

A Personal Retrospective My view of what constitutes Supply Chain Management is very broad. It is not just Procurement, Warehouse Management and Shipping. It started to show up in job titles, functional names, metrics, and processes. There will be a quantum leap in the Supply Chain skills need in the future.

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CEO Warnings of AI Adoption: Changing or Eliminating Jobs

Supply Chain Matters

The future is not solely about the wholesale elimination of supply chain planners, buyers or staff, but augmenting their capabilities with technology that can gather information, think probabilistically and simulate business metric performance trade-offs at a faster rate. Think about what that implies for future job roles.

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A New Decade: Give Science A Chance

Supply Chain Shaman

George’s stated goal was an “end-to-end supply chain strategy,” but the verbage rambled in a non-sensical cycle of monosyllabic industry slang when asked to define it. In short, his vision of an end-to-end supply chain was transactional: better processing of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay.

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Enhancing Procurement Excellence Through the Power of Negotiation

Procurement Academy

A crucial part of successful procurement strategies is the art and science of negotiation. Procurement negotiation refers to a buyer (usually from a company) and a seller (usually from a supplier) working together and discussing the likes of pricing, terms, conditions, and other aspects of a procurement contract.

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How to Get a Job in the Supply Chain Sector

Logistics Bureau

Why Choose a Job in the Supply Chain Industry? It touches many departments, from production, procurement, shipping, accounting, and finance to marketing, warehousing, research and development, and sales. Getting Started in Supply Chain. Streamline standards , including in procurement, packaging, and delivery.