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This issue explores how supply management organizations have managed during a year of continual volatility. In the cover article, six experts offer their 2022 retrospectives and thoughts for the future. Other features highlight how supply chain disruption has fostered burnout among some professionals, how European supply chains are faring amid disruption, and the inspirational projects undertaken by the winners of the inaugural ISM® Supply Chain Trailblazer Awards.
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The Manufacturing PMI® registered 49 percent, indicating that U.S. manufacturing activity contracted in November, ending a 29-month period of expansion. The contraction is the sixth since 2000 for U.S. factories.
Scope 3 emissions encompass supply chains end to end and make up the largest share of most companies’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and measuring them is an inexact science.
Preparing for environmental, social and governance (ESG) requirements is creating a new sense of urgency for already overworked businesses, government agencies, procurement officers and logistics practitioners.
Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have used carbon and fossil fuels to catalyze growth and productivity. New industries grew rapidly, and carbon emissions ballooned. Initially, however, we didn’t understand the long-term consequences of over-reliance on fossil fuels.
Still an emerging capability, this ‘living, learning model’ enables organizations to use a high-fidelity mirror image to test supply chain resiliency — and determine a plan’s probability of success.
Six experts share insights on how supply management organizations have helped companies weather the storms of 2022 — and offer strategies for the future.
Internal and external disruption, including an energy crisis and supply constraints, are forcing European supply chains to become more resilient and value-oriented.
The inaugural ISM® Supply Chain Trailblazer Awards recognize organizational programs, teams and initiatives that have addressed problems, optimized processes and set examples for the profession.
After more than two years of walking a tightrope to keep products — and their companies — moving during the coronavirus pandemic, many procurement professionals are feeling the ‘PTSD’ of supply chain burnout.
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?
Such measures as virtual and hybrid working models, collaboration and innovation, and increased supplier visibility can help organizations manage disruption — and humanize connections.
Improving the customer experience — whether the customers are businesses or consumers — has become an imperative for today’s companies. Yet poor customer experiences deluge the contact center industry, potentially tainting the manufacturer, distributor and other aspects of the product’s supply chain.
Integration efforts can offer the necessary bridges into procurement, spend data and supplier onboarding processes. Through their involvement in developing the post-merger culture, supplier diversity leaders have a platform for communicating the benefits of using diverse suppliers.
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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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