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

Supply Chain Game Changer

Having spent my entire career touching Supply Chain in one form or other it is interesting that I only began to hear the phrase “Supply Chain” in the early to mid 1990s. It started to show up in job titles, functional names, metrics, and processes. Conclusion Supply Chain professionals are busy people.

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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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Takeaways from the 2018 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference

Kinaxis

by Dr. Madhav Durbha Supply chain insights from leading industry experts. Supply chain skills in high demand, digital twins, disruptive technologies, and other takeaways from the 2018 Gartner supply chain conference. He gave examples of how large companies are acquiring digital startups.

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ASCM 2023 Conference and a Conversation with ASCM’s CEO

Supply Chain Matters

One prominent speaker was MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics , who specifically addressed advanced AI’s impacts on supply chain processes and future decision-making. He described a good news situation where supply chain graduates are garnering multiple job offers right now.

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How to Get a Job in the Supply Chain Sector

Logistics Bureau

In a nutshell, the pandemic has increased the importance of supply chain, posited it as a ‘cool’ career choice, and strengthened the need for job seekers to improve their supply chain skill sets. Getting Started in Supply Chain. A business degree with a supply chain focus will serve you well.