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In the face of disruption that continues to challenge supply chains, supply management professionals are helping their companies thrive. This issue recognizes the profession's best: Their contributions are moving their organizations — and the profession — forward. Also, ISM®’s 2022 Salary Survey provides insights on compensation and employee trends.
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Companies are redesigning their supply chain networks amid continuing disruption. In the past two years, about three-quarters (74 percent) of supply chain leaders have changed the size and number of locations in their networks, a Gartner survey found.
If the U.S. hospital subsector were its own patient in July, its chart — the Hospital ISM® Report On Business® — would likely read as stable. What that means, however, depends on which health-care executive or supply chain practitioner you ask.
The release of the Services PMI® data — headlined by a composite index reading of 56.7 percent, up 1.4 percentage points compared to June — beat analysts’ expectations and included more evidence that runaway price increases might finally be slowing.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to have no end in sight, supply management organizations are still grappling with its impacts — and face a different world that requires greater risk management.
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, paper has been a hot commodity for manufacturers, logistics and delivery companies, and consumers. According to various reports, paper continues to experience supply chain disruption and could potentially experience short supply.
Cost-management pioneer Jimmy Anklesaria, MBA, FCA, LL.B., who has engaged and influenced students, practitioners and executives though supply chain lessons with ‘intelligence and humanity,’ is honored with the 2022 J. Shipman Gold Medal Award.
The average compensation for supply management professionals drops slightly amid the Great Resignation, a continuing gender pay gap and pandemic-fueled burnout — increasing the emphasis on preparing the next generation of leaders.
By leveraging such skills as communications, collaboration and creativity, the ISM® 30 Under 30 Rising Supply Chain Stars are making a difference in their roles, companies and communities.
The recipients of the 2022 R. Gene Richter Awards are looking forward to entering the supply management profession, with its vast array of opportunities.
Forced labor has been prevalent in the world’s fields, factories and fisheries, but amid strengthening legislation, ‘now is the time’ for companies to limit or eliminate an abhorrent practice from their product pipelines.
While contracted rates established by an annual RFP are a necessary part of any transportation procurement strategy, they are by no means sufficient by themselves. Here are three reasons why shippers should proactively include the spot market as part of the truckload procurement strategy.
The coronavirus pandemic has changed how supply chains, particularly retail ones, function. It heightened the need for supply assurance, meeting customers’ needs and improving logistical challenges. It changed the focus to the end-to-end supply chain.
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.
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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 Bath and Body Works
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