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An End-to-End View: The Skill of the Future As supply management evolves, one skill stands out as necessary: An end-to-end view of the supply chain. “It used to be that if you were in

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The Monthly Metric: Risk Management Score The 2015 white paper that introduced Institute for Supply Management®’s (ISM®) Mastery Model describes risk, one of the model’s 16 core competencies,

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The Five Ws of Supply Management By Leah Williams, PMP, CSCP Due to its ability to impact the flow of goods to and from an organization, supply management often serves as a company’s backbone.

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Brexit’s Impact on the Global Supply Chain By Chris Laws There are two ways that the United Kingdom’s (U.K.) exit from the European Union (EU) can unfold. A hard Brexit describes a worst-case

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How to Take Advantage of the Trade Truce The 90-day trade truce agreed upon by President Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping at the recent G20 Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, offers

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Managing Supply Chains’ Interconnectedness After the Suez Canal Blockage Just like the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Suez Canal incident — in which the container ship Ever Given blocked

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More Miles Between Breakdowns, but Higher Repair Costs for Fleets While trucking fleets, on average, increased their miles between breakdowns during the second quarter, repair and maintenance

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Holiday Shopping and Spending, Pandemic Style The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has far-reaching supply chain impacts, including how people are expected to shop this holiday season. With

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A ‘Complex and Highly Skilled’ COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution With the U.S. setting records for coronavirus cases and hospitalizations on a near-daily basis — with no signs of slowing — and

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Optimizing Warehouse Storage to Boost Productivity The handling and assignment of stock-keeping units (SKUs) and the movement of inventory between areas can present challenges for warehouse

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