- 21. What Supply Chain Managers Do
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- We have all heard about the challenge of attracting employees into supply chain roles. Could it be that not enough is known about what comprises these roles? Peter Bolstorff, Bob Trebilcock & Judd Aschenbrand ...
- 22. The Supply Chain is a Great Place to Be
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- It's a great time to be working in the supply chain, according to Dr. Madhav Durbha. Technology improvements, disruptive opportunities, and innovations in processes and network design have all made the ...
- 23. Is Manufacturing Back?
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- Is manufacturing coming back to the US? You can argue that point until the cows come home, but the fact is that manufacturing is enjoying some healthy growth and continues to be a critical piece of our ...
- 24. Women in Supply Chain Roles
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- According to Terry Applegate, women are making progress in the supply chain field but there's still a lot of room to grow. Opportunity is out there, but women need to know where to look and how to utilize ...
- 25. Keeping Millennials in the Supply Chain
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- Supply chain managers not only have the challenge of finding, training, and keeping good employees, but they also need to realize they're now commonly dealing with the so-called millennial generation.Recognizing ...
- 26. The Challenge of Finding Supply Chain Talent
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- What keeps supply chain managers awake at night is a recurring theme in business publications. There are many studies out there on the subject and a recent one by MHI and Deloitte is an eye-opener.Although ...
- 27. Finding Supply Chain Talent Still Challenging
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- It's tough to find good help out there. In the supply chain world, the increase in the number of universities granting supply chain degrees has improved things a bit, but the complexity of the roles is ...
- 28. Business Acumen Needed
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- Lots of people want to be leaders, but in the supply chain world what's really needed to ascend to that level? In a guest article on the Supply Chain Matters site, Jim Barnes explains that business acumen ...
- 29. How to Attract 'A' Player
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- We've recently reviewed the traits supply chain managers look for in their hiring process. But what about those things that potential superstars consider important in their employers?On the 21st Century ...
- 30. Hiring the Next Generation of Managers
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- 'Soft skills' may be the hot characteristic to look for in the supply chain talent acquisition process. The supply chain job market seems to be hot, and the talent pool out there is more skilled than ever.On ...
- 31. What's Affecting Our Slee
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- Recent research of supply chain organizations by APICS provides some solid data on several themes we're following. If you're a manager and are sleeping soundly despite their findings, you must be doing ...
- 32. A Different Talent Management Approach
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- As the unemployment rate continues to drop, it's becoming even harder to identify and develop talent in the supply chain. A recent paper by Charles Dominick summarized on the Sourcing Innovation site looks ...
- 33. Millennials in the Supply Chain
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- Talent attraction and management continue to be ongoing challenges for the supply chain. How to make the function interesting to millennials joining the workforce is the subject of a recent article on ...
- 34. Bridging the Talent Gap
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- One of the biggest challenges for supply chains is attracting and keeping talent. Due to demographics and an image problem, companies often struggle to find people who want to get into purchasing, logistics, ...
- 35. Practical Big Data Supply Chain Projects
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- Getting past the Big Data hype is often a challenge, since there's so much of it out there. But finding an article with practical supply chain applications of the technology makes it all worthwhile!Louis ...
- 36. Fixes for the Talent Gap?
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- Supply chain managers readily acknowledge that they have a long way to go to resolve their issues with talent management. As network complexity and globalization have increased, technological advances ...
- 37. Attacking the Supply Chain Talent Problem
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- We've written several times this year about the difficulty in attracting and retaining talent in supply chain roles. Now, Deloitte has looked at the problem in detail and proposes a few ideas on how to ...
- 38. Elevating Supply Chain Talent
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- The theme of attracting and managing supply chain talent has been well-traveled over the past year. The consulting firm Deloitte has a take on it, as does Jason Busch on the Spend Matters site.Supply chain ...
- 39. Closing the Talent Gap
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- We've continued to be vocal about the dearth of talent entering supply chain management. Jennifer Baljko on the EBN site has developed some commonsense strategies to improve the 'hit rate'.Read about it ...
- 40. Attracting Millennials to the Supply Chain
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- Supply chains everywhere are trying to fill their leadership pipelines. However, they must get past the 'awareness' barrier when trying to attract millennials.According to M.L. Peck and Linda Rigano on ...
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