Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 4, 2015

As part of the conference, I’m delivering a talk on five predictions that every procurement professional should consider. These aren’t so much “predictions”, as opportunities that procurement professionals should become aware of, and educate themselves on.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JUNE 10, 2015

A recent review by Peter Smith of my new book , “The Procurement Value Proposition”, co-authored with Gerard Chick, provides some solid support for the message Gerard and I were seeking to develop. We need to be up to the challenge of creating the “impossibly talented” procurement professionals of the future.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 29, 2013

A CPO in the financial services industry also noted that a need to redefine procurement’s role in the enterprise is happening, driven by the recognition that a new type of procurement capability is needed: Prior to our transformation, the ONLY metric by which our performance was measured is how much money we saved for the organization.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

I had a chance to review the new book by Jim Hansen and Kelly Barner, “ Procurement at a Crossroads “, which explores the many changes that the profession is facing, and challenges individuals to do things differently. (I The authors also go through and explore a number of other procurement issues that are often debated.

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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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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 4, 2015

We talked about how procurement needs to think about the five core “game changers” that are going on in the world, including the balance of power, technology, globalization, demographics, and sustainability. But you still have responsibility for the lower rungs of the ladder!

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 21, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group announces that our latest Research Advisory, 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains is now available for reading. In a prior five-part series of commentaries hosted on Supply Chain Matters , we have provided snapshots of five of our ten predictions for 2023.

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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.

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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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NC State SCRC

JUNE 15, 2021

Most recently, a failure in supplier communication and process compliance on the Horizon caused the worst environmental disaster in the Gulf, and BP’s procurement staff have spent enormous amounts of time and money to address these shortcomings. Descriptions.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I will be delivering a session on the Value of Procurement, as part of the noise we’re creating around the new book “ The Procurement Value Proposition “ As part of this promotion, I recently did an interview on what I plan on covering at this event. The interview is posted on the SCMR website.

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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 Matters

AUGUST 14, 2024

In this Supply Chain Matters commercial aircraft industry specific commentary, we focus on Airbus’s reported Q2-2024 and first-half financial and operational performance.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 12, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog announces the availability of the Supply Chain Matters Podcast Episode 17- Needs for More Diverse Supply Chain Talent from the Lens of Technology. There is a growing consensus that existing supply chain and talent management processes and technology need a rethink.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 15, 2016

We need to be up to the challenge of creating the “impossibly talented” procurement professionals of the future. Our organizations need people who are ready to take on the many challenges that exist in the supply chain environment we face today.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 6, 2016

Additionally, the creation of a website will allow for the processes to be more transparent to enable more efficient interactions with our global procurement colleagues. The team on this project will be interviewing contract management team members to document contracting processes.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog announces the publishing of our latest recorded podcast episode: What Should Supply Chain Leaders Expect in 2024. Our podcast conversation focuses on business C-Suite expectations of supply chain leaders in the coming year.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2023

In this fourth Supply Chain Matters reader update, we highlight this week’s developments related to ongoing UAW labor strike involving the big three U.S. big three automakers with implications to their supply networks vs. prior strategies in targeting just one. auto companies.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In this update we want to alert our Supply Chain Matters global readership to our latest upcoming podcast episode. Multi-industry supply chain teams continue to focus on the final aspects of supporting and executing Q4 and 2023 business goals.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 22, 2023

Background In February of this year, numerous business and aerospace industry media reported on the milestone of the largest commercial aircraft order in the industry’s history.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In this fifth Supply Chain Matters weekly reader update, we highlight the latest developments related to ongoing UAW labor strike involving the big three U.S. auto companies. automakers production facilities based on the union’s perception of whether weekly progress is being made in individual negotiations.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 23, 2023

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters labor union announced yesterday that 86.3 percent of UPS union workers have now voted to ratify the newly negotiated five-year labor agreement. This announcement follows the announcement of a tentative agreement that was reached in late July.

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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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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Relationship management, data modeling, problem solving, sourcing analysis, negotiation, data-driven decision-making, metrics development, forecasting, process flow, BOM understanding, MRP/production schedule, Pareto analysis, and information presentations are all key skills that he applies in his CPO role.

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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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NC State SCRC

MARCH 17, 2017

Continuing my reporting of the Procurement Leaders meeting in Miami, I sat in on a very interesting session that included three professionals from very different walks of life: Captain Harry Thetford – Defense Logistics Agency. And being there upfront from a logistics and procurement perspective becomes key.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 8, 2022

Tania Seary , Founder and CEO of Procurious, has built a social media community platform for procurement and supply chain professionals. If you see a woman trying to speak up in a meeting but being ignored, say something about it and make sure that woman is provided the opportunity to share her thoughts. ”.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

On this Labor Day holiday, the Supply Chain Matters blog extends our salute and recognition to the many supply chain workers who plan, procure, coordinate, and directly support the movement of multi-industry components and finished products to respective markets and to businesses and consumers.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog provides an overview of our 2024 annual prediction themes for industry and global supply chains.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Supplier driven innovation was also a major theme at the Procurement Leaders meeting in Miami this spring. This will require re-designing the processes used to manage these sales-procurement relationships. I had an opportunity to sit through some wonderful presentations at CSCMP in Atlanta this year.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In this third Supply Chain Matters reader update, we highlight the ongoing supply chain and manufacturing implications of the labor strike involving the three U.S. big three automakers with implications to their supply networks vs. prior strategies in targeting just one. unionized auto companies.

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