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Inside Supply Management® is a leading publication for those within the procurement/sourcing and supply chain profession. Our magazine covers essential news, innovative trends, ISM Report On Business® coverage, research analysis, leadership profiles, career strategies and much more.
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Most Recent Articles
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While many companies have reduced their dependence on China — a process that began during the trade war — the rhetoric on completely restructuring supply chains is facing hard realities.
Dan Zeiger
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While procurement hasn’t been immune to layoffs and furloughs during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, it hasn’t been hit as hard as other parts of businesses — and top talent within the function continues to be a finite resource in 2020.
Mark Holyoake
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At WESCO, a Pittsburgh-based electrical, communications, and utility distribution and supply chain solutions company coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic preparedness measures coupled with an extensive health and safety program are helping protect employees and maintain operations.
Sue Doerfler
Popular Articles
A layman would likely consider a purchasing card (p-card) critical to a procurement practitioner. After all, the name of the function is in the alternate title; p-cards are also known as “procurement cards.”
Dan Zeiger
March 1, 2020
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It’s All in the DeliveryFor procurement professionals and organizations, success hinges on serving know-how to stakeholders and suppliers; these 10 concepts are the ingredients for successful relationships and business outcomes.
John Paparella, CPSM, CPSD
The ISM® Report On Business®, Manufacturing and Non-Manufacturing, are two of the most reliable economic indicators available, providing guidance to supply management professionals, economists, analysts, and government and business leaders.
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Procurement professionals must successfully manage two types of relationships — internal and external — while focusing on the company’s bottom line.
Ajith Kumar, Ph.D., MBA, Steven Miller, Michelle D. Steward, Ph.D.
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When we started distance learning at my high school, I wondered about how I could help with society’s efforts to combat the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Hannah Bai
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What challenges do Sudanese supply management professionals face?
January 1, 2020
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Procurement executives are capitalizing on their skills and breadth of knowledge to advance into higher-level positions outside of the function, like COO and CFO.
March 1, 2020
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Ideal for parts that can’t be produced any other way, among other uses, 3-D printing is making headway as a tool for prototyping, product development and part replacement.
Amid a challenging global business environment that puts supply management skills in high demand, the profession’s wage-growth trend continues, but
demographic gaps persist.
When OEMs experience a period of decreasing customer orders, their instincts may tell them to hunker down, cut orders, deplete inventories and put growth-oriented decisions on the back burner. What they may not consider, however, is that leveraging trusted supplier partner relationships could allow them to be opportunistic during slower periods.
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