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Future of Procurement Study Available

Supply Chain View from the Field

I recently completed a study of 25 CPO’s, each providing their view of what procurement will look like in 2025. Procurement has a history that is linked in the core concepts of centralization, volume leveraging, and cost reduction. The earliest traces of this can be linked to materials management.

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Availability of Part Two Research Report- Your Workforce: The Most Critical Link in Supply Chain Capability

Supply Chain Matters

Further included was manufacturing talent needs, and with consideration for moving outsourced production to domestic sourcing, the needs for retaining a highly skilled manufacturing talent in conjunction with factory automation. Management skills. Customer support and product as a service needs.

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Survey Reinforces Supply Management Job Satisfaction

Supply Chain Matters

Readers can access our summary and highlights from the 2023 report , along with prior years of ASCM and other noted talent surveys by clicking on the search term: Supply Chain Talent Management in our Categories Menu appearing on the right-hand panel.

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Opportunities for Value Chain Transformation

Supply Chain Matters

World Economic Forum White Paper The World Economic Forum in collaboration with global management consulting services firm Kearney , conducted a survey of over 300 global operations executives on topics related to “ the rewiring of global value chains.” We applaud such cited strategies because they are long overdue.

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Availability of Research Report- Your Workforce: The Most Critical Link in Supply Chain Capability

Supply Chain Matters

Further included was manufacturing talent needs, and with consideration for moving outsourced production to domestic sourcing, the needs for retaining a highly skilled manufacturing talent in conjunction with factory automation. Management skills. Availability of Part Two Research Advisory.

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What Should Supply Chain Management Teams Anticipate in 2023 and Beyond- Part Two

Supply Chain Matters

In line with prevailing economic forecasting, readers should anticipate continued uncertainty of global markets and the actual likelihood of various regional economic and manufacturing recession conditions in the coming year. Anticipated Supply Chain Business Process and Technology Enablement. Global Economic Themes.

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Behind the Numbers of the SCRC Supply Management Index

NC State SCRC

These interviews are often the best source of information and are not published. Secondary data sources are published available databases, reports, websites, and so on. Examples might be a “state of the industry” report purchased from a consulting company or a publicly available database such as the Census of U.S. Descriptions.