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This issue offers a look at opportunities and challenges that can be transformative for supply management organizations. The cover article, “Infrastructure Rx: Beyond a Bandage,” delves into proposed legislation as well as recommendations from supply management professionals about the ideal U.S. infrastructure. Additionally, learn how the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated interest in technology solutions, and how data quality and security are top concerns for many companies. You’ll also learn about Africa’s manufacturing and supply chain potential, as well as challenges.
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For consumers, this holiday season is about flexibility and adaptability. For the organizations that supply those goods — and supply management organizations in general — it’s a similar tale that lasts beyond the holiday season.
A corporate awakening has brought diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) to the forefront, increasing visibility and funding for supplier diversity. But funding alone is not enough to drive sustainable and impactful change.
A survey by logistics provider DHL of nearly 2,000 U.S. businesses also found that the coronavirus pandemic positively impacted last year’s holiday season, with many businesses adapting to the disruption and opportunities it presented. Still, they are eager to avoid disruption this year.
As supply management roles evolve and become more strategic, such skills as collaboration, communication, analytics capabilities and business acumen are necessary to increase the function’s value and impact.
The nation’s transportation and supply chain ailments have been worsened by the coronavirus pandemic, but will proposed legislation in Washington be a step in providing transformative treatment?
Lawmakers, regulators and corporate stakeholders are
demanding increased corporate responsibility across
supply chains. They are acting on authority of several
laws passed since 2010. Among them are the Business
Supply Chain Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Act
(U.S., 2020), the California Transparency in Supply Chains
Act (2010).
Organizations are accelerating their use of technology to increase resiliency, but the starting point or continuum of that voyage is influenced by such factors as level of operational maturity, market drivers and risk.
Governance, proper classification standards and advanced analytics solutions are among measures that can make companies information rich — and lead to better decision-making.
Companies strengthening commitments to environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives are increasingly linking executive compensation to their success — a dynamic that likely won’t stop at the top.
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, perhaps no element of supply management has been impacted more than inventories, thanks to the product shortages, elevated prices and transportation bottlenecks that have been a way of life for manufacturing, services and health-care businesses.
The coronavirus pandemic — the latest in a litany of inventory-threatening supply chain disruptions — has led to calls to break the glass on a new model: from just-in-time to just-in-case, or something in between.
Peak season is no longer a term that applies to the holiday shopping season. For procurement, manufacturing and logistics professionals, it has been peak season for months due to the coronavirus pandemic and skyrocketing e-commerce.
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Camille Batiste, CPSM, C.P.M. Archer Daniels Midland Company
Kimberly DeWitt, CPSM CF Industries
Miguel Gonzalez DuPont
Michelle Hawkins, PMP Charter Communications
Joe Matthews
GENTEX Corporation
Hemant Porwal, CPSM WESCO Distribution, Inc.
Stacey Taylor TriMark USA
Judy Whipple, Ph. D.
Michigan State University
Jeffrey P. Wincel, MBA, D.Min. NXP Semiconductors
Susanna Zhu The Hershey Company
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