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JSCM Video: Informal exchanges, formal sourcing
Whether supply managers accept or reject the advice they receive from colleagues during information exchanges can have a significant impact on the cohesion of sourcing teams.

2020: The Year of the Logistician Part 5 of 5
Modern-day superheroes, logisticians have been working tirelessly through the global pandemic to keep the orders fulfilled and the delivery machines running

The Rebound Podcast: What’s ahead for small package delivery
E-commerce is heating up! Listen in as Alan Amling discusses the future of small package delivery

Keeping the fabric flowing at JOANN Stores
One of the country’s best-known fabric and craft stores turned to order management and its brick-and-mortar assets to fill orders of essential supplies during COVID

Don’t Believe the Hype: A Call for Responsible Supply Chain Analytics – Part 4 of 5
How supply chain managers can cut through the data hype, ask the right questions, and rely on more responsible analytics in today’s uncertain business environment

The Rebound Podcast: Workforce diversity
Listen in as BBC World News America’s Katty Kay discusses diversity in the workplace and the future of work Post-COVID. ASCM CEO Abe Eshkenazi and SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock are hosts

Supply Chain Startup: Enabling the self-driving supply chain
Aera Technology provides the tools to turn your data into actionable insights, across processes

Made in the USA: It’s not necessarily an all-or-nothing proposition
One positive outcome from the current COVID-19 pandemic is the increased willingness of government entities to support business activities that help sustain private sector supply chain efforts. It’s time for supply chain managers to step up and leverage these opportunities.

Vodafone’s digital journey: A conversation with Ninian Wilson
One of the world’s largest mobile operators is digitizing its supply chain, with procurement a major focus

Supply chain’s role in minimizing food insecurity – Part 2 of 5
The COVID crisis caught the food supply chain off guard, but history doesn’t have to repeat itself when the next big crisis rears its head.

Supply Chain Startup: Mercado Lab’s vision? Democratize the Plan, Buy, Move
Texas-based startup platform digitizes import workflow from the PO through final mile delivery

Leading the way forward through COVID – Part 1 of 5
As supply chain professionals, we are called to a responsibility that goes beyond the bottom line. The profession can lead the way through the pandemic.

JSCM Video: Managing buyer-supplier conflicts
When buyers and suppliers are at loggerheads, how a buyer reacts, and the message that reaction sends, has an impact on how suppliers respond

The Rebound Podcast: Lions and tigers and bears, oh my. Global risk in the supply chain
Listen in as global strategist Jacob Shapiro discusses the geopolitical risks facing supply chain managers. ASCM CEO Abe Eshkenazi and SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock are hosts.

Supply Chain Startup: Automating the grocery store at Alert Innovation
The vision is to bring bringing materials handling automation to grocery store e-fulfillment

Stockout in aisle 6 -
Grocers have struggled to keep their shelves in the pandemic. Our research looks at some of the reasons why, and what might come next.

Is Your Current Supply Chain Culture Capable of Delivering in 2025?
High Performance Organizations (HPOs): New to World Best Practices — Thriving on Speed and Supply Chain Lean Innovation

High Performance Organizations: Embracing generational differences and virtual networks will be key
Leading supply chain organizations leverage workforce diversity, and specifically generational diversity, to deliver high performance organization (HPO) results

Supply Chain Startup: Crunching the numbers so you don’t have to
Fuse Inventory brings inventory planning into the digital age

Supply Chain Startup: The art of the seed
Cowboy Ventures nurtures startups that can get to the next round


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