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May / June 2020

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May / June 2020

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    Supply Management Architect

    In her sixth year as a continuous-improvement manager in jet engine assembly and repair, Sue Spence, MBA, believed she had checked her job skill-set and satisfaction boxes. Before she could settle into a lengthy career, however, a mentor suggested to her that what feels like a groove can easily become a rut.
    Dan Zeiger

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    Collaboration Brings It All Together

    Through relationships with internal and external stakeholders and peers, Brandon Hummons, CPSM, is breaking down silos and developing a culture of teamwork, learning — and success.
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    ISM®’s 2020 Salary Survey: A Talent-Driven Market

    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.
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    Strategic Self-Starters

    By taking initiative, the ISM® 30 Under 30 Rising Supply Chain Stars are improving processes, elevating the supply management function’s role and transforming their organizations.

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Voices: Reflections From a J. Shipman Gold Medal Award Winner

To be recognized as someone who has influenced the changing roles in supply management over the last 30 years was a bit overwhelming. Looking back, I have been part of the profession’s evolution from buyer to supply manager to sourcing leader, at the forefront of continuous improvement and the elimination of waste.
Timothy R. Fiore
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Perspectives

Although we’re in an era where a CPO is expected to be a master communicator who creates value with agility and a millennial mindset, a framework for an integrated supply chain network is an anomaly in the insurance industry.
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Competencies: Turning Future Supply Chain Disruptions into Opportunities

ISM Mastery Model® Core Competency: Business Acumen Enterprise social governance, robotics and robotics process automation and a risk management focus are among the disruptors expected to be significant supply chain issues or challenges in the future. No single corporation or industry will be able to minimize or eliminate their risk. True change will begin when industries, companies and governments proactively move together toward achieving mutual goals.
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Engaged: Career Started ‘By Accident’ Becomes Fulfilling Journey

In her role as senior director, procurement and material control at CF Industries, Beverly DeWitt integrates the procurement and material control function into the business through strategic management of goods and services for nine manufacturing facilities, 24 distribution facilities and two head offices.
Kimberly DeWitt, CPSM
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Talent: Fulfilling a Future Need for Relationships and Soft Skills — Now

The switch to automation frees up workers who previously performed repetitive tasks, allowing them to move into more strategic, value-add roles. Those roles are going to be all about relationships.
Sue Doerfler
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Strategies for Connecting Supply and Demand Chains

In today’s customer-centric business environment, how can supply chains become more demand-driven?
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The Traditional Mindset of Cost Savings Is Dead

Hemant Porwal, CPSM

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