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

Supply Chain View from the Field

Students presented a total of 26 projects, including both practicum projects from our undergraduates, our MBA, and the new Local Food Systems Class. John Deere – Supply Chain Visibility – MBA Team: Jessica Newsome, Nithin Seshandri, Delia Smith, Bo Zhang – Project Sponsor: Mark Burton, John Deere.

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Labor Strike Targeting U.S. Automakers- Update Five

Supply Chain Matters

In this fifth Supply Chain Matters weekly reader update, we highlight the latest developments related to ongoing UAW labor strike involving the big three U.S. Southern States and the UAW agreeing to a two-tiered wage system for entry level workers in 2007 in the midst of the bankruptcy fears of two of these automakers.

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Insights From Procurement Leaders Conference Part 1 – Making HR Your Friend!

Supply Chain View from the Field

Take a supply chain view of the recruitment process. Map the process of keeping track of talent and understand from HR stakeholders – what the strategy is. What does this have to do with stakeholders and talent? Joanna noted the importance of strategy. “Map So we need to be committed to a less bureaucratic process.

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Behind the Numbers of the SCRC Supply Management Index

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The SCRC’s Supply Management Maturity Index was highlighted in a recent Wall Street Journal article , that identified the companies best prepared to weather the storm ahead in terms of supply chain disruptions. These interviews are often the best source of information and are not published. Handfield, R.B.

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Teamsters Labor Union Ratifies UPS Labor Agreement

Supply Chain Matters

economy and for industry supply chains. The contract eliminates a prior two-tiered wage system involving new hires with all existing drivers being classified as a single unit. Rather, businesses and supply chain services providers need to get back to the basics and modernization of workforce management relationships.

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Five Predictions (About Prediction) that Every Procurement Professional Should Consider

Supply Chain View from the Field

Prediction 2 – Incident prediction and workflow management systems will replace supplier risk monitoring on major projects and indirect areas. To ensure monitoring of current workflow systems, real-time systems will be needed to collect worker feedback, from those that are closest to the action.

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A “Swiss Army Knife” of Supply Chain Talent Requirements: Views from a Former Wolfpack Student

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Marsh did not have centralized approach to supply chain management. But because of their less mature supply chain organization, the net income percentage was in the low single digits. Stuart discussed the need for a supply chain Swiss Army knife skill set. Today, we are at 5.5M