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Ranking the Top 20 Women in Supply Chain
Women, despite being underrepresented, are making significant strides in the supply chain industry. Here is a ranking of the Top 20.
Microsoft Unveils New AI Innovations For Warehouses
Microsoft hopes its new AI innovations are the answer to a new set of challenges facing manufacturers.
TIm Cook Says Apple Plans to Increase Investments in Vietnam
Apple plans to increase investment in Vietnam to strengthen its supply chain and reduce dependence on Chinese manufacturing.
Nissan Channels Tesla With Its Latest Manufacturing Process
Nissan has joined other carmakers in adopting Tesla's gigacastin. The process will cut costs as the Japanese carmaker has plans to roll out 30 new models by 2027.

Leadership Resources

What the Thriving Supply Chain Professional Needs to Succeed
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Aligning People, Process & Technology
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Leadership News

Women in Supply Chain: Meagan Fitzsimmons
GXO's Meagan Fitzsimmons discusses being a woman in supply chain, challenges she's faced, and advice she'd give other females entering the industry.

Blue Yonder Acquires One Network Enterprises for $839M
Blue Yonder has acquired One Network Enterprises, strengthening its supply chain platform and collaboration ecosystem.

How Water Crisis is Putting Supply Chains at Risk
Global supply chains are facing an unprecedented water crisis, but not all companies are taking action to solve it.

Bill Seward Delivers Keynote Speech at MODEX 2024
UPS' President of Supply Chain Solutions Bill Seward discusses supply chain strategy, technology investments, and more at MODEX 2024.

Raphaël Sanchez Appointed President of Generix Group
Raphaël Sanchez is appointed President of Generix Group succeeding Aïda Collette-Sène, with a focus on accelerating growth and innovation in the cloud (SaaS).

Creating Business Value With Embedded Sustainability
As companies struggle to meet sustainability goals, the ones that can embed it into their business processes have been the most successful.

Supply Chain Waits on Political Winds
Politics seems to be on everyone’s mind in this election year and the effects on supply chains are becoming evident in every aspect of our work.

How to Motivate Supplier Quality Improvements
Supplier quality leaders can drive supplier improvements beyond just compliance requirements through a series of steps that do not require additional financial resources.

Explaining Supply Chain’s Role in Building Brand Identity
Supply chain’s growing importance in the customer journey has companies looking at the once-behind-the-scenes processes in a new light.

Warehouse Gamification Boosting Employee Engagement, Productivity
Gamification is helping warehouse operators maintain an engaged and healthy workforce.

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.

SMC³’s Solution to the Logistics Industries Talent Problem
This SMC3 blog outlines the logistics industries talent problem. A study from Alcott Global identifies the problems outlined. SMC3’s solution to these problems is teaming with the Logistics Training Center to provide coursework geared toward mastery of LTL transportation concepts.

Supply Chain Professional’s Job Satisfaction
Listen in as Simon Rakosi, co-founder of Butterfly.ai, discusses the results of the 2023 Employee Satisfaction Survey. Executive editor Bob Trebilcock hosts.

Cleveland Clinic Named Top Healthcare Supply Chain By Gartner
The Cleveland Clinic is the top healthcare supply chain according to Gartner, which also recognized the Mayo Clinic and Intermountain Health as Masters for their continued excellence.

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.

Supplier.io Honors Firms for Diverse Supplier Initiatives
More than $160 billion was spent with diverse suppliers in the past year among just 326 companies analyzed by Supplier.io, directly supporting 1.3 million jobs.

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.

Talking Supply Chain: Cardinal Health at-Home Solutions Remakes the Supply Chain
Cardinal Health at-Home Solutions’ Mike DeSimplare and Jamie Deist join Talking Supply Chain to discuss the remaking of its supply chain.

Talking Supply Chain: Women Ascend the Supply Chain Ranks
Gartner analyst Caroline Chumakov joins host Brian Straight to discuss the gains women have made in the supply chain workforce

4flow NEVA® – Rapid Modeling and Analysis of Supply Chain Networks
Businesses dependent on transportation benefit from having an agile supply chain, however, agile network design requires visibility over the entire network – a challenge without suitable software, this is where the supply chain modeling software 4flow NEVA® (Network Exploration, Visualization and Analysis) can help. It enables quick and easy interactive visualization and analysis of your baseline network structures within a few minutes.


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Ryder
Ryder System, Inc. is a leading provider of commercial transportation, logistics, and supply chain management solutions, serving customers throughout North America, Europe and Asia. When it comes to your supply chain, it’s not enough to partner with a provider…
Supply Chain Edge
Supply Chain Edge was founded in 2001 to help companies address their most pressing supply chain challenges. Our professionals are seasoned supply chain operators with years of hands–on operating experience and deep experience in delivering improved profits, enhancing EBITDA, and…
Manufacturing Institute
The Manufacturing Institute’s Close the Skills Gap framework addresses the current and future skills and workforce development gaps through the three pillars: image, quality and policy. In addition, the Institute offers a variety of toolkits for employers, educators and…
West Monroe
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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…
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Zoox
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Proxima
Proxima is the US/UK market leading advisory firm servicing large organizations wishing to maximize the financial and operational performance of their supplier base.
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