Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This is a guest post from Director Clyde Crider of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, based on an MBA panel he sat in on yesterday at NC State’s Poole College of Management. The companies represented on the panel were Advanced Auto Parts (who recently purchased Carquest), Amazon, Caterpillar and Patheon. .

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 4, 2015

Other indicators included data pulled from the Federal Reserve economic database, the Producer Price Index, the Purchasing Managers Index, as well as internal metrics such as the size of the company’s own sales force. As we’ve noted in prior posts, talent is the key to procurement organizations.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 12, 2016

He started in supply planning, overseeing over $100M of spend in batteries and other categories. He then went into global imports for the central purchasing group in Raleigh. Marsh did not have centralized approach to supply chain management. This was a lot of planning, a lot of analytics, and a lot of work.

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