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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.
Making Supply Chains Sexy to Gen Z with Program Director Jack Buffington
Fundamentally, supply chains are in place to solve problems, how you define a problem is how you solve it.
Supply Chains and COVID-19: Agility, Flexibility, and Engagement the Foundation of Navigating Change
As part of the interview series, Arthur Adams, Jr., DTI board member and vice president of sales, supply chain and customer engagement at CSX, discussed leadership and his company’s response to the pandemic, as well as economic and social change.
MIT CTL’s Top Supply Chain Challenges in 2021
Which supply chain challenges will preoccupy companies in 2021? Many are reflected in MIT CTL's research agenda for the new year, so we asked our senior researchers to describe what they would like to achieve in 2021.
Governments Failure to Combat Forced Labor in Supply Chains
Media reports detailing abuses suffered by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang region of northwestern China cast a spotlight on society’s long-running failure to eradicate the use of forced labor from supply chains.
Covid-Driven Shift to Online Education Fuels Supply Chain MicroMasters Growth
The pandemic is transforming societies on many fronts; this trend, coupled with rising demand for learning platforms that are more accessible and flexible, will permanently change the education landscape.
Mitigating Risk With a Supply Chain Resilience Stress Test
The new standard for proactively assessing a global supply chain’s ability to mitigate the impact of disruptive events will improve agility and help companies outmaneuver uncertainty.
Covid-19 Separates Leaders from Laggards in Machine Learning-Driven Demand Forecasting
The difference between companies that continue to gain a competitive advantage from Machine Learning-based demand forecasts and those that struggle to harness the technology could become greater in a post-pandemic future.
5 Reasons Why Your Supply Chain Design Must Change with the Times
Companies need to review their supply chain design processes and adopt modern methods reflective of the volatile markets in which they now compete.
Supply Chain Education in the Post-COVID World
As the business world continues to reinvent itself, here’s a look at how supply chain executive education could evolve over the next year.
Podcast: eKAMI Reskills Coal Miners for Machining and Automation Careers
Displaced workers trained in hard and soft skills for CNC operation and robotics.
Manufacturing Institute Sees Demand for Reskilled Workers
eKentucky Advanced Manufacturing Institute (eKAMI) students, including displaced coal miners, find jobs during school closure; eKAMI’s focus on reskilling workers extends to staff, who leverage 3D printers to build and donate masks for frontline healthcare workers.
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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…
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The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) provides you and your organization with the education, research, connections, and professional growth opportunities needed in today’s global marketplace.
Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business has a visionary standard. Integrity stands shoulder-to-shoulder with analytic and strategic strengths. The School’s top-ranked programs combine rigorous classroom learning, hands-on experience in the real world, a solid foundation in ethical values…
Michigan State University Broad College of Business
In keeping with the vision of the Michigan State University Broad College of Business to be widely acknowledged by industry and academia as the leader in dissemination of procurement, manufacturing and logistics knowledge, the Supply Chain Management program integrates topics…
University of North Texas Center for Logistics Education and Research
The Center for Logistics Education and Research works closely with senior executives to develop career placement and internship opportunities for students. These opportunities abound because the Dallas-Fort Worth region is a national leader in distribution, transportation and logistics services.
Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration, hosted by The Linux Foundation, including leaders in finance, banking, Internet of Things, supply chains, manufacturing and technology.
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…
Stanford Graduate School of Business
At Stanford we’re pioneers. It’s part of our heritage, our present and our future. Stanford helped put Silicon Valley on the map, and Silicon Valley launched the industries that have shaped our modern world. At Stanford we teach…
MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation
The MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation (the Forum) is a unique community composed of academics and industry members whose support allows Forum researchers to provide customer-focused solutions to design and manage the new supply chain.
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