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With a focus on risk, agility and transparency, this issue of Inside Supply Management® features insights on a variety of topics. The cover feature on ISM®’s 2025 Salary Survey looks at how challenges and opportunities are shaping compensation. Read how tightening immigration policies could impact foreign-born workers and the companies that employ them, as well as how freight companies must make more educated and calculated moves in an environment threatened by tariffs. Additionally, learn how the military methodology of “wargaming” can double as an impactful boardroom business tool to spark innovation and reduce supply chain risk.
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Uncertainty is impacting sourcing decisions, delivery timelines and shipping costs, says Oswaldo Villanueva, CEO and president of VR International LLC, a logistics provider and commercial broker in Houston.
Perhaps the two biggest supply chain-related news stories of the week were intertwined by President Donald Trump departing the G7 meeting in Kananaskis, Alberta.
To keep on top of and manage all the restrictions, tariffs and other disruption in global trade, procurement and supply chain leaders should diversify their supply chains and invest in technology, among other measures.
Rich in natural resources and in a reshoring faceoff, Canada looks to smoothen labor issues and better leverage its supply chain assets — including a potentially game-changing commodity.
Investors and the broader public place significant attention on tariffs affecting imports from China, Taiwan and other East Asian manufacturing hubs. However, policies targeting Mexican products could trigger underappreciated reactions.
Supply management professionals in general reported a slight increase in average salary last year, amid a work environment characterized by changing age demographics and a persistent gender gap.
Tightening policies and increased visa rejections would impact foreign-born workers, as well as companies that employ them — and, potentially, the quantity and quality of the U.S. skilled labor pool.
Even for logistics professionals used to uncertainty, tariffs are threatening to change the game — and in a perpetual ‘next normal,’ supply managers must make educated and calculated moves.
The military methodology of ‘wargaming’ can double as an impactful boardroom business tool to spark innovation, reduce supply chain risk and break down organizational silos.
As U.S. policymakers debate ways to address China’s global political influence, trade with China has become a complex issue involving not just political and national security dimensions but also one that involves the economic interests of large U.S. companies.
But it’s safe to assume continuing supply chain disruption, digital transformation and risk — which will intensify demand for agility, mindset shifting and resilience.
The issues largely remain the same, but with so many new developments and moving parts, the monthly roundtable of experts from Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®) still has a lot to discuss.
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Stacey Taylor Vice Chair Vice President, Procurement Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
Thomas W. Derry Chief Executive Officer ISM
Miguel Gonzalez Chief Procurement Officer
American Express
John Han Founder of Intelage and Strategic Consultant Tenzing Consulting
Michelle Hawkins, PMP Senior Vice President, Strategic Procurement Charter Communications
Jeff Kimsey Vice President, Investment Intelligence Nasdaq
Joseph Matthews Vice President, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
GENTEX Corporation
Darla Morse Chief Digital and Innovation Officer Partner’s Credit Union
Kristopher Pinnow, CPSM Vice President, Global Supply Chain COLLINS AEROSPACE
Hemant Porwal, CPSM, CPSD Executive Vice President, Supply Chain and Operations WESCO International, Inc.
Judy Whipple, Ph. D.
Bowersox-Thull Endowed Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Michigan State University
Sopan Shah
Senior Vice President, Global Chief Procurement Officer
IHG Hotels & Resorts
Susanna Zhu SVP, Global Sourcing & Supply Chain Ops Bath & Body Works
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