Procurement Academy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Featuring state-of-the-art visuals, our game is more than just entertainment; it offers an adventure that challenges you to push the boundaries of your supply chain skills and knowledge. Your ability to identify timely mitigations and make informed choices will be crucial to your final score.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Indirect Procurement – It’s Time to Rise and Shine! Yet Indirect Procurement often takes a back seat to Direct Procurement. Indirect Procurement however is critically important to the day to day and long term success of a company. Indirect Procurement – It’s Time to Rise and Shine! . .

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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! Supply Chain is a fantastic career path for anyone. Consider what constitutes Supply Chain. There is a skills shortage in many areas.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

George’s stated goal was an “end-to-end supply chain strategy,” but the verbage rambled in a non-sensical cycle of monosyllabic industry slang when asked to define it. In short, his vision of an end-to-end supply chain was transactional: better processing of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 9, 2024

It implies that transformation involves the ability of supply chain professionals to serve in roles that span multiple functions that include procurement, planning, operations and product management in functional or technology support dimensions. We applaud such cited strategies because they are long overdue.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 11, 2019

Supply Chain involves planning, execution, physical flows of goods, the flow of information, processes, financial management, sourcing, logistics, procurement, manufacturing, distribution, logistics, repair and recycling, business management and much, much more. An Incredible Skills Development Platform.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

This has shifted the role of supply chain executives from functional to process-oriented, making supply chain leadership an integral part of the executive team. Our study identifies critical supply chain skills needed by managers and leaders in Asia and suggests key competencies for all supply chain professionals.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Blog post originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Argentus at [link] , a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement. Is Your Supply Chain Ready To Recover? Argentus is a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Quantum Leap to the Top 10 Supply Chain Skills of the Future! The phrase “Supply Chain Management” was originally coined by Keith Oliver in 1982 and subsequently gained increasing popularity as its usage was proliferated in books and language.

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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. Procurement (and Purchasing) Job Interview Questions & Answers. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™.

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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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Elementum

AUGUST 15, 2018

With the “first generation” of supply chain experts preparing to retire, businesses will need to invest in new talent to fill roles across logistics, operations, planning, procurement, and more. Training on-site is a practical solution given the dynamic nature of today’s supply chains.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Prediction 1: By the end of 2021, half of all manufacturing supply chains will have invested in supply chain resiliency and artificial intelligence, resulting in productivity improvements of 15%; Prediction 2 : By 2022, firms will dedicate 35% of their logistics business process outsourcing services budget to process automation, focusing on order, (..)

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 12, 2022

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. Strategy, planning and decision making.

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MIT Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Also, what supply chain skills will be needed to support the transition to circular supply chains and sustainable sourcing and procurement? How will today’s workforces acquire these skills?

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 1, 2023

As such, candidates for this program can stem from finance, IT, project management or center of excellence roles, in addition to supply chain areas of procurement, planning, execution or other areas and backgrounds depending on the scope and emphasis of the transformation. We especially applaud ASCM in this approach.

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Elementum

AUGUST 15, 2018

With the “first generation” of supply chain professionals preparing to retire, businesses will need to invest in new talent to fill roles across logistics, operations, planning, procurement, and more. Training on-site is a practical solution given the dynamic nature of today’s supply chains.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 31, 2022

This second advisory report addresses supply chain staffing skills and management across specific functional areas of: Product management and procurement. Management skills. Customer support and product as a service needs. Strategy, planning and decision making.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 8, 2023

Much work remains across various dimensions of global supply chains, supply chain management, procurement and product functions, and for supply chain technology development and technical support areas to strive for increased diversity, opportunities and gender equality.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 16, 2020

Their Sales teams will want to pad forecasts and hedge demand but their Procurement teams will want to give you forecasts that they are more confident in. Supply Chain have the responsibility, authority and power to award business worth millions and millions of dollars. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™.

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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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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 22, 2019

Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS). Today most companies perform most of the activities in their Supply Chain internally. Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, Inventory Management and more are most often activities assigned to some internal organization. Space Age Supply Chain Skill Development.

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TMC

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

i] Only 45% of supply chain and 40% of procurement executives were extremely or very confident that their supply chain organizations have the competencies they need today. i] 2015 Supply Chain Survey , Deloitte, May 2015. Editor’s note: This post originally ran in 2015.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Higher tender activity by governments procuring drugs on behalf of consumers, is also leading to irregular sales spikes that are harder to predict. Su pply chain talent shortage: There was a very interesting panel discussion with industry and academia representatives wherein supply chain skills shortages was discussed.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Why Choose a Job in the Supply Chain Industry? It touches many departments, from production, procurement, shipping, accounting, and finance to marketing, warehousing, research and development, and sales. Getting Started in Supply Chain. Streamline standards , including in procurement, packaging, and delivery.

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Oracle SCM

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The digital supply chain demands a radically different level of expertise and skill set. You’ll see a premium placed on holistic, end-to-end supply chain management leadership skills.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 13, 2023

That is likely to motivate supply chain management and procurement teams to want to continue to route shipments from Asia to other U.S. West Coast labor agreement expired in July 2022, there has yet to be a firm timetable for agreement entering into 2023. ports to avoid the risk of a worker slowdowns or a work stoppage.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This is likely to include select areas of added business and supply chain digital transformation, but in more managed and focused scope. Procurement and supply management leaders will be expected to provide both leadership for supply resiliency and added value, but also supply network cost reductions.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 20, 2019

As you are developing your Digital Supply Chain strategies it is important to understand, consider, and account for the inevitable problems and obstacles that will test your resolve and your leadership. It is an extremely exciting time to be in Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The digital supply chain demands a radically different level of expertise and skill set. You’ll see a premium placed on holistic, end-to-end supply chain management leadership skills. © Copyright Mortson Enterprises Inc.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group highlights a 2024 prediction of added labor activism continuing across industry supply chains in 2024.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 20, 2023

After reporting disappointing total production and vehicle delivery performance earlier this month , the formal reporting of Q3 quarterly financial performance disappointed on revenues, earnings, and on production and supply chain related challenges.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 9, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights the formal declared end to the Covid-19 pandemic along with commenting on the industry supply chain learning that has emerged. It’s therefore with great hope that I declare Covid-19 over as a global health emergency ,” declared WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus last week.

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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 Game Changer

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Check out Quantum Leap to the Top 10 Supply Chain Skills of the Future! Subscribe Here! Email Address. How many screens do you have? You likely have a Cell phone or a Smart phone. You may have a Desktop computer or a Laptop, or both, between your home and your place of work.

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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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