Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 20, 2025

It requires a collective effort between suppliers, logistics providers, manufacturers, and customers to keep things moving efficiently. Many are integrating Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) with finance and logistics to improve decision-making.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

We enable them by providing high-quality supply chain on-demand courses, guides, best practices, tools, and mentoring from industry experts. We have Courses like S&OP deployment, Supply Chain Digitalization , , and Negotiation in Procurement.

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MIT Supply Chain

APRIL 24, 2014

Zaragoza, Spain, where the Zaragoza Logistics Center is based, an employment bright spot in Europe. The unemployment rate in Europe is around 12% and in Spain is about 25%, yet the current jobless rate for graduates of the MIT Zaragoza Master in Logistics and Supply Chain Management program in Zaragoza, Spain, is zero.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Why Choose a Job in the Supply Chain Industry? And now let us examine the reasons why a career in logistics offers so much diversity to so many workers. Getting Started in Supply Chain. For example, you can be doing finance in supply chain, or you can be doing operations.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Quantum Leap to the Top 10 Supply Chain Skills of the Future! . We’ve just introduced a new Job Board here at Supply Chain Game Changer! Consider what constitutes Supply Chain. The skills that Supply Chain people needed decades ago will evolve with the continued advancement of technology.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 6, 2023

Our research advisory report for 2023 begins with a review of the themes of our prior three years of predictions and the derived learning for the supply chain management community.

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TMC

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Managed services solutions offer transportation management system (TMS) software and third-party provider expertise in one package. The managed services space appears to be growing in all segments, including the one occupied by shippers with annual transportation budgets in the $10 million to $50 million range.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 11, 2020

Customs experts are an often unsung, but important, part of strategic Logistics operations. On the Argentus blog, we support our recruitment business by shining the light on all things Supply Chain Management. Import/Export professionals are on the Logistics branch of the larger Supply Chain Management tree.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2017

The role of supply chain workers, simply put, is to contribute to or manage the process of producing the right amount of the right goods and getting them to the end-customer at the right time, ensuring customer satisfaction while being profitable. This adds up to considerable potential for varied and satisfying supply chain careers.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 28, 2019

Whether you are in Logistics, Distribution, Transportation, Procurement, Purchasing, Planning, Warehousing, Management, and more your skills will become harder and harder for employers to find.

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 21, 2023

Impact on Supply Chain: The realm of Supply Chain has witnessed a profound impact courtesy of Professor Rodriguez, a distinguished Supply Chain Management instructor and seasoned logistics professional.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog announces the availability of our latest recorded podcast- What Supply Chain Leaders Should Anticipate in Leadership and Workforce Reskilling Needs in 2025. Podcast Overview This episode is a prelude to our annual 2025 predictions Research Advisory that will publish in January.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In this Supply Chain Matters posting we want to alert our readers to an upcoming and rather timely podcast that will initially publish next week on this platform. This podcast is titled- What Supply Chain Leaders Should Anticipate in Leadership and Workforce Reskilling Needs in 2025.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

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.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 14, 2022

That will have a direct impact on the dynamics of global container shipping, airfreight and logistics networks. Our overall theme for industry and global supply chains for 2023 is a Year of Adaptation, Realignment and Response to Economic and Geopolitical Forces. Global Wide Transportation and Logistics.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 16, 2020

Every part of your Supply Chain from suppliers, to logistics carriers to Distribution Centres, Manufacturers and Marketing channels must all have sufficient capacity to meet your needs. With the advent of the Digital Supply Chain professionals in the field need to know more than ever before and have a broader skill set.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 9, 2023

Many supply chain operations workers were declared essential to public health and to emergency response. Online retail has become essential as has online customer fulfillment logistics. Such capabilities will provide added acceleration to logistics in-transit visibility at some point in the near future.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Teamsters labor union, after negotiating significant wage, cost-of-living and other benefit increases from UPS, has also vowed to increase organizing efforts within existing transportation and logistics non-unionized workforces including Amazon.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 4, 2018

That’s fine because the supply chain is typically an enabler for business, except in the case of transport companies and 3PLs, which of course, exist to service other companies’ supply chains. Both of them cost money, but if you can finance either option, the long-term results should be well worthwhile.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Here is our interview with a true Supply Chain leader, Mike Croza! Like many people who “fell” into Supply Chain and Logistics, the profession was not an initial chosen field. And as Supply Chain is now mainstream and seen as a very strategic part of the business, solutions and capabilities need to be built.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2023

Part Three of this series shared our fourth prediction that was focused on different priorities for supply chain talent, skills retention and employee retention strategies with different priorities in 2023.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Transportation Industry Labor Contracts Among other labor contracts scheduled for 2024 negotiations are: Canadian railroad workers involving CN Rail and Via Rail S. Labor contracts involving other key industry participants including Lockheed and engine supplier Pratt & Whitney , a division of RTX Corporation are upcoming this year.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 14, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides highlights of the ASCM Supply Chain Professional 2024 Salaries and Careers Global Report released this week.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 12, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group , through its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog, announces the release of a second published research advisory in an overall three-part series: The Importance of Supply Chain and Human Resources Strategy Alignment for Addressing Talent Recruitment and Retention Needs- Part Two.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 27, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog calls reader attention to a recently published podcast featuring supply chain technology industry analyst Bob Ferrari speaking on a very timely topic.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 31, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group highlights the release of a second published research advisory on the Importance of supply chain and HR alignment for talent lifecycle needs. Background.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 11, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blo g provides highlights of the ASCM 2023 Salary and Career Report released this week which depicts responses depicting high job satisfaction and compensation levels. In the area of increasing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the responses indicate some narrowing of gaps but added efforts needed.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Technologists utilize the term “narrow AI” to depict artificial intelligence and machine learning technology that is currently being successfully deployed among specific supply chain business process and decision-making areas.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 2, 2025

That is especially the case with global transportation costs and disruptions on the increase. production workers such as those in the automotive, commercial aircraft and logistics services industries that have and continue to occur, workers equate wages to both skill levels along with overall cost of living economic dimensions.

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