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Top-Paying Jobs in Supply Chain for 2024 Revealed
The 2024 ASCM Salary Report shows a 4% year-over-year salary increase for supply chain professionals, with average total compensation now at $103,000.
Ranking the Top 10 Schools to Learn About Supply Chains
Want to pursue a career in supply chain? These 10 schools will have you best prepared and ready for success.
Purchasing, Operations Managers Top Supply Chain Pay Scales
A data dive into supply chain salaries and job openings at Zetwerk found the median salary above $90,000 with logistician and industrial engineers seeing the highest job growth opportunities.
Managers, Analysts are the Most Needed Jobs in Supply Chain
More than three-quarters of supply chain operations say they are still facing a workforce shortage, with managers and analysts most in need.

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Education News

Top-Paying Jobs in Supply Chain for 2024 Revealed
The 2024 ASCM Salary Report shows a 4% year-over-year salary increase for supply chain professionals, with average total compensation now at $103,000.

Ranking the Top 10 Schools to Learn About Supply Chains
Want to pursue a career in supply chain? These 10 schools will have you best prepared and ready for success.

The Right Approach for Supply Chain Education
The COVID pandemic accelerated the adoption of online supply chain education. Today, organizations and employees have their choice of online, in-person or hybrid learning environments, but there is no one-size-fits-all approach.

Purchasing, Operations Managers Top Supply Chain Pay Scales
A data dive into supply chain salaries and job openings at Zetwerk found the median salary above $90,000 with logistician and industrial engineers seeing the highest job growth opportunities.

Managers, Analysts are the Most Needed Jobs in Supply Chain
More than three-quarters of supply chain operations say they are still facing a workforce shortage, with managers and analysts most in need.

Why Employees Leave: Poor Management Tops the List
While most supply chain employees seem happy in their careers, there are some areas where companies can improve employee engagement and the workplace environment to reduce turnover.

Five Trends to Watch in 2024
The current economic climate has some similarities to the post-Cold War 1990s, and that means a boom could be on the horizon.

Supply Chain’s Top Trends for 2024 Require Talent Investment for Success
As we head into 2024, top 10 supply chain lists feature the usual suspects: technology, visibility, AI. But a focus on talent is needed to ensure the investments in these more high-profile areas provide value.

Resilience Certificate Now Available from ASCM
The Association for Supply Chain Management has introduced a new resiliency certificate that will train leaders on the concepts, practices and trends in building resilient supply chains.

Supply Chain Set to Deliver this Christmas
Inventory and freight capacity is available, and consumer spending continues to remain resilient.

Replacing Just-in-Time and Just-in-Case with Agile Inventory Management
Ultimately, the goal for managers is still to create the most efficient supply chain possible for their inventory management. Rather than committing to just-in-time or just-in-case, an unpredictable world demands that managers mitigate risks by always being agile.

Robots Can Improve the Pharmacy Business and Patient Safety
The potential for improving health care delivery systems through automation is vast, however, industry leaders must seize the benefits, manage critical risks and skillfully navigate difficult dilemmas in order to truly take advantage of it.

5 Ways Supply Chain Managers Can Contribute to Humanitarian Relief
Supply chains play a vital role in relief missions, but the planning starts long before disaster strikes.

Supply Chain Dilemmas with Trucking Vehicle and Labor Shortages
Rigidities in the supply of truck drivers and truck availability have a lot in common with Greek tragedies.

Safer Transportation: Linking Personality Traits to Distracted Driving
Research has found some correlation between personality traits and distracted driving behaviors. But there is question on whether businesses can use that information to improve employee safety.

An Increasingly Digital Procurement Function Lacks Talent Required for Future Needs
Surveys by Gartner and McKinsey both come to a sobering reality for the future of procurement: the talent pipeline is not being prepared to meet the future demands of the job.

Supply Chain’s Next Decade of Dealing With the Unknown
Although some of the events and trends that shaped the supply chain's position in 2014 still hold sway in 2023, it's apparent that the current challenges facing us represent a pivotal moment for supply chains, and by extension, the entire world.

How Upskilling Can Bridge the Workforce Skills Gap
It’s clear education and training must evolve to maintain pace with advancing technologies like AI, but getting a handle on what skills gaps exist within your organization can be a challenge.

SAP’s Empowering Women in Supply Chain Aims to Forge Strong Female Leadership
While the percentage of women in supply chain jobs continues to grow, there remains a retention problem once they reach middle-management level positions. Darcy MacClaren of SAP is trying to change that.

Supply Chains Can’t Find Talent With The Right Skill Sets
Alcott Global survey respondents cite a lack of appropriate skills as biggest impediment to hiring.


Featured Companies

Texas A&M University Mays Business School
Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School educates more than 5,000 undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students in accounting, finance, management, management information systems, marketing, and supply chain management.. The school consistently ranks among the top public business schools.…
ITIF
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) is a non-partisan research and educational institute – a think tank – whose mission is to formulate and promote public policies to advance technological innovation and productivity internationally, in Washington, and in the states. Recognizing…
Development International
Development International (DI) is a not-for-profit organization specialized in areas where law, business and development intersect. DI’s point of departure is to bring independent scientific scrutiny, clarity, and accuracy to bear on issues impacting quality of life, thus enabling…
Airforwarders Association
The Airforwarders Association (AfA) serves as the voice of the airforwarding industry. We are an alliance of Indirect Air Carriers, Cargo Airlines, and affiliated businesses located throughout the global transportation community. The purpose of the Airforwarders Association is to be…
Military Warriors Support Foundation
Military Warriors Support Foundation awards mortgage-free homes to wounded heroes injured during combat in service to our country. The homes are for families who have severe and/or unique circumstances due to their injuries received while serving our country. In…
International Energy Agency
The IEA is an autonomous organisation which works to ensure reliable, affordable and clean energy for its 29 member countries and beyond. The IEA has four main areas of focus: energy security, economic development, environmental awareness and engagement worldwide.
NCEE
Since 1988, NCEE has been researching the world’s best performing education systems to unlock their secrets. We focus on their standards, instructional systems and assessment designs. We look at the way they govern, finance and organize their systems. We use…
Next Level Purchasing Association
Next Level Purchasing is the most sought out resource for procurement professionals; from entry-level buyers to executive-level practitioners. As a global organization founded in 2000, Next Level Purchasing has helped clients in over 150 countries throughout the world to establish and utilize…
Supply Chain Management Association SCMA
As the leading and largest association in Canada for supply chain management professionals, the Supply Chain Management Association (SCMA) is the national voice for advancing and promoting the profession. SCMA sets the standard of excellence for professional skills, knowledge and…
BenchPrep
BenchPrep offers the industry’s first comprehensive learner success platform to help learners attain academic and professional success. Organizations that administer certification, credentialing, test prep, and continuing education programs utilize BenchPrep’s best-in-class enterprise SaaS platform to improve engagement rates…
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