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FedEx Announces Plans to Shut Down Four Facilities
FedEx will shut down four Southwestern Florida locations and lay off 200+ workers as the delivery giant looks to cut costs.
How Supply Chains Are Solving Severe Workplace Shortages
A survey from Descartes found that 54% of supply chain and logistics companies are attempting to automate tasks as a way to improve worker productivity and address labor shortages.
SAP Unveils New AI-Driven Supply Chain Innovations
SAP's new AI-driven enhancements will leverage real-time data, enhance product development, and bolster manufacturing effectiveness.
Women in Supply Chain: Ann Marie Jonkman of Blue Yonder
Ann Marie Jonkman has seen it all in her 20+ year career. We asked her to share her experience as a woman thriving in a predominantly male industry.

Leadership Resources

What the Thriving Supply Chain Professional Needs to Succeed
This report documents the findings of Kiaxis's annual survey, which this year set out to discover what supply...
Aligning People, Process & Technology
This paper separates people, process & technology and breaks down some of the key challenges associated with each, along...


Leadership News

Women in Leadership: Achieving an Equal Future in the Supply Chain & Logistics World
This past International Women’s Day 2021, ProShip connected with three exceptional partners to celebrate female leaders in the supply chain and logistics industry.

Hannah Testani Named as CEO at Intelligent Audit and Adds to Executive Team
Intelligent Audit's Board of Directors has appointed Hannah Testani as the company’s new CEO along with new appointments at the executive level.

Jeff Bezos to Step Down as Amazon CEO
Amazon said Jeff Bezos will transition to the role of Executive Chair in the third quarter of 2021 and Andy Jassy will become Chief Executive Officer at that time.

Breaking Through the Concrete Ceiling
Listen in as Loyola University Chicago’s Harry Haney and Jeffrey Korzenik, chief investment strategist for Fifth Third Bank, discuss the benefits of hiring from another untapped talent resource, the recently incarcerated. SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.

Integrated Scenario Planning As an Agile Framework to Develop Responses to Coronavirus
With the impacts of the Coronavirus continuing to advance, how can we be prepared for events like these?

Business Leaders Voice the Economic Impact of COVID-19
While the impacts of COVID-19 varied between advanced and developing economies, business leaders across the board identified some common features that helped countries remain resilient.

Let’s Create a Human-centric Supply Chain
Listen in as Michigan State professor Sriram Narayanan and Ed Terris, vice president of apparel manufacturing at Goodwill Industries of South Florida, discuss how to integrate people with disabilities into supply chains. SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.

How Countries are Performing on the Road to Recovery
This report provides pathways for leaders to take proactive steps to embed transformative policies, bold investments, and new ventures into the recovery, such an approach requires courageous vision and a nuanced balance between the short and long term.

How Leadership Training can Improve Company Culture
In this paper we look at how an investment in a leadership training and development program can pay long term dividends.

5 Forces Shaping New Leadership Expectations of Chief Executive Officers
The New Rules of Leadership: How can leaders juggle these evolving expectations while successfully leading their companies into the future?

Three Steps to Creating a Company Culture of Knowledge Management and Innovation
Building on the three aspects of corporate culture; collaboration, trust, and learning, companies can attempt to continuously innovate and create new and valuable services or products through applying new ideas and knowledge.

Innovative Companies 2020: The Serial Innovation Imperative
In this paper, Boston Consulting Group details how facing turbulent and fast-changing markets, innovators need a well-tuned innovation system that can spot emerging product, service, and business model opportunities - and then rapidly develop and successfully scale them - over and over again.

The Top 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2020
According to Boston Consulting Group, these companies are serial innovators and have managed to create innovation systems to perpetually foster creativity and agility, it’s an intentional, laborious process - but when done right, the payoff can be huge.

UPS Board Appoints Carol Tomé as CEO, David Abney to be Executive Chairman
Former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of The Home Depot, Carol Tomé will take the role of UPS CEO June 1, 2020, and the current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer will become Executive Chairman of the Board.

Making the Case for the Next-Generation of Global Supply Chain Leadership
Global supply chains face the risk of not having the right talent for an uncertain, volatile future. Caltech CTME's custom executive programs help some of the world's best companies engineer their supply chains and talent to win. In this webinar, Alan Dunn provides a compelling overview of three Next-Generation Global Supply Chain Leadership Development Programs for enterprise teams.

How and Why Organizational Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Maintaining cultural coherence across a companies portfolio should be an essential factor when determining a corporate strategy.

Petrobras Named First Company to Achieve Association for Supply Chain Management Certification
Petrobras, an integrated energy company focused on oil and gas, has become the first company to achieve the Association for Supply Chain Management, ASCM, enterprise certification.

ASCM Enterprise Certification Standards Guide
The Association for Supply Chain Management, ASCM, Enterprise Certification aims to empower organizations to reach their goals, improve results and be more competitive in today’s global business world - through supply chain excellence.

Defining Industries for the Global Supply Chain Economy
For all of its importance, no one has identified what industries comprise the U.S. supply chain economy, quantified the number and quality of jobs it contains or assessed how much it matters for innovation.

One Network Enterprises Names Joe Bellini as Company’s First Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Bellini’s appointment is the latest addition to the One Network leadership team to drive growth.


Featured Companies

Viv Labs
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Blue Origin
Blue Origin, LLC (Blue Origin) is a private company developing vehicles and technologies to enable commercial human space transportation. Blue Origin has a long-term vision of greatly increasing the number of people that fly into space so that we humans…
The MPI Group
The MPI Group is composed of the Management Performance Institute, the Marketing Performance Institute, and the Manufacturing Performance Institute, and is known globally for research and thought leadership that define what it means to be a top performer - for…
Enterra Solutions
Enterra Solutions, LLC, is a cloud-based, intelligent supply chain technology company that solves complex supply chain execution problems of consumer products and retail organizations through real-time data sharing and analytic solutions that “Sense, Think, Learn and Act” to continually improve…
BDO
BDO is the brand name for BDO USA, LLP, a U.S. professional services firm providing assurance, tax, advisory and consulting services to a wide range of publicly traded and privately held companies. For more than 100 years, BDO has provided…
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is a nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization made up of roughly 400 staff members around the globe. Its staff consists of human rights professionals including country experts, lawyers, journalists, and academics of diverse backgrounds and nationalities. Established in 1978,…
Terrafugia
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NASA
For more than 60 years, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, has been breaking barriers to achieve the seemingly impossible - from walking on the Moon to pushing the boundaries of human spaceflight farther than ever before. We work in…
Acquity Group
Acquity Group is a leading Brand eCommerce® and digital marketing company, now part of Accenture Interactive, a group within Accenture Digital that helps the world’s leading brands drive superior marketing performance across the full multichannel customer experience. Acquity Group…
MonarchFx
MonarchFx is your smarter logistics solution comprised of best-in-class supply chain companies focused on delivering cost-effective, high service level fulfillment solutions to brands and retailers.
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