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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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Truck Driver Burnout: Ways Carriers Can Fight Stress-Related Turnover
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Realizing the Promise of Retail Media Networks
Due to technological innovation, retailing is changing faster than ever - commerce is becoming increasingly digitally enabled, and...
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Will “Just Transition” Reshape Supply Chain Sustainability Goals?
A concept called “just transition” is cropping up in sustainability circles, and if it gains ground, it could become part of corporate pledges akin to those that commit companies to net-zero operations by a certain year. Such an outcome has significant implications for supply chain sustainability.
Confronting the Prospect of a Global Recession
In these Covid-ravaged times, the last thing companies need is more bad news, but like it or not, the storm clouds of a global economic recession are gathering on the horizon.
2021 Services Economy on the Right Side of Growth, Reports the Institute for Supply Management
Economic activity in the services sector grew in December for the 19th month in a row - with the Services PMI® exceeding 60 percent for the 10th consecutive month - say the nation’s purchasing and supply executives in the latest Services ISM® Report On Business®.
Should the Supply Chain Profession Adopt Ethical Automation?
Automation is transforming supply chains, but the societal cost in terms of inequality may be high.
The Covid Vaccine Story Inspires Hope in a Pandemic-Wracked World
The furor over a whistleblower’s accusations that Facebook profits from allowing its platform to spread disinformation has spotlighted the role of social media in propagating falsehoods online. A prime example is how such untruths hamper the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
Talking Supply Chain Podcast: A Shot In The Arm
On this episode, MIT’s Yossi Sheffi discusses his new book on the race to develop the COVID vaccine. SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.
Relief for Supply Chains Hit By Truck Driver Shortages?
Paradoxically, truck drivers are both scarce and underutilized; optimizing drivers’ time can address both problems.
Manufacturing is Evolving with Smart Manufacturing
In this short-term program, you’ll receive the advanced preparation needed for a career in smart manufacturing.
New England Supply Chain Conference - Supply Chain 2030
October's New England Supply Chain Conference (NESCON 2021) sets an ambitious and compelling vision for 2030.
Supply Chain Resilience Core Capacities
A resilience-building approach to compare and contrast supply chain disruptions, especially how the Covid-19 pandemic fits into supply chain management’s risk universe.
The 7 Core Capacities of Supply Chain Resilience
While companies should understand and mitigate their exposure to supply chain risk, we believe that many become obsessed with risk assessment at the expense of building resilience — the more important objective.
How Companies Can Break the Hoarding Habit
Corporations, in a bid to meet consumer demand, are now following the same hoarding trends that consumers practiced at the beginning of the pandemic.
Responses to Pandemic Ills That Slow the Recovery
The pandemic took the world by surprise, and it is understandable that our immediate response was far from perfect - however, failing to deal effectively with its aftermath is less excusable.
The Upside of COVID-19 Pandemic-Induced Truck Driver Shortages
Inflation is one of the headwinds facing the US economy and consumers, and inflation is fueled, to some extent, by the national shortage of truck drivers; this shortage raises truck transportation prices, which show up in higher prices for every product.
Thunderbird Master Certificate of Supply Chain Management
The demand for supply chain professionals is currently at an all-time high where companies increasingly rely on their integrated supply chain networks internationally.
Talking Supply Chain Podcast: Let’s Get Strategic
On this episode, Steven A. Melnyk discusses how managing the strategic supply chain is different, and why it calls for a new kind of supply chain leader. SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.
Fulfilling Orders When You Don’t Have Enough Product to Meet Demand
The global shortage of semiconductor chips that is disrupting supply chains in the automotive and consumer electronics industries is forcing chipmakers to decide which customers’ orders to fulfill when product is in short supply.
How Market Memory Impacts Truckload Performance
The full truckload (TL) transportation market’s dynamics in the US and non-binding freight contracts enable shippers and carriers to behave opportunistically when buying and selling TL capacity.
Education as a Strategic Advantage
This white paper details Robert Hirschey’s experience in working with companies to develop education as a strategic advantage, Hirschey has worked as an executive at both the operating and strategic levels.
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How Does IKEA’s Inventory Management Supply Chain Strategy Really Work?
Each IKEA store is huge and holds more than 9,500 products! How in the world does IKEA offer so...
Starbucks as an Example of the Value Chain Model
The concept of value chain helps to understand and segregate the useful (which help in gaining a competitive...
7 Principles of Supply Chain Management Explained
Would you like to understand supply chain management concepts but don't have time to study from a textbook?...
Is Apple’s Supply Chain Really the No. 1? A Case Study
How Complex is Apple's Supply Chain? Some people in the blogosphere said that Apple's Supply Chain is not...
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