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January / February 2021

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January / February 2021

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    Supply Management’s Future Depends on Diversity

    By making this pillar integral to their operations, organizations can reflect the communities and clients they serve, as well as capitalize on innovation and opportunities.
    Sue Doerfler

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    Innovation Through Supplier Diversity

    By working to expand its program across the business, Honeywell is hoping to gain synergies, collaboration and value.
    Sue Doerfler
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    Getting Through the Fog

    With COVID-19 vaccines on the way, ‘the end is within sight’ — but companies and supply chains could be navigating a fundamentally different economic terrain after the pandemic haze clears.
    Dan Zeiger
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    Performance Boost

    A systems approach to technology implementation can help organizations improve supply chain agility and reduce risk, but many of those benefits won’t be realized without a three-tiered analysis.
    Victor E. Sower, Ph.D., CQE, Pamela J. Zelbst, Ph.D., PMP, Mahdi Safa, Ph.D., Kenneth W. Green, DBA

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A Supply Management Approach to Resolutions

As we enter 2021, we cast our minds’ eyes in two directions, as we traditionally do each new year. First, we look to the past and — based on what we know — make resolutions to improve in the coming year. Then, we look to the future and — based on what is largely unknowable — we make predictions about what could transpire. a
Thomas W. Derry
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Perspectives

My early days as a project, maintenance and operations engineer made me realize the importance of the five rights of supply chain — right quality, right quantity, right time, right place and right price. Whenever we had a project delay, the root cause often occurred in the material-sourcing process. Although this was a collective stakeholder responsibility, the lead was always with the supply chain function.
Syed Kamran Ahsan, C.P.M., MCIPS
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Making Remote Negotiations with Multiple Parties Work

With multiparty negotiations commonplace in business, politics and everyday life, and the added challenge of every meeting being virtual, it is important to consider skills and strategies that can be employed to secure great outcomes.
Jonathan O’Brien
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A Continuous Career Goal: Earn More Responsibility

I lead the collaboration in establishing and executing procurement and value-creation strategies — developing, preparing, negotiating, managing and coordinating agreements for construction, maintenance and facility services categories — while mentoring a team of subcategory managers and/or category buyers in the facility- and construction-services category tower.
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Good Talent May Be Scarce, and Other Workforce Trends

With companies reducing workforces amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the November unemployment rate at 6.7 percent, many people are looking for jobs. Nevertheless, finding good talent could be a challenge, says Naseem Malik, CPSM, managing partner at MRA Global Sourcing in Chicago.
Sue Doerfler
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January 12, 2021
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Organizations Must Raise Supplier Data-Protection Game

Supply managers face a daunting challenge with data: Sharing data remains necessary for efficient and effective supply chain functions — but greatly increases the difficulty of maintaining adequate protections. When a procurement organization shares its most valuable and sensitive data, the stakes are raised if it is not protected.
Brett J. Massimino, Ph.D., John V. Gray, Ph.D.
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‘Real Collaboration’ Offers a Conglomeration of Benefits

Having been a supply management leader for several manufacturing conglomerates, I’ve only recently accepted that a supply chain operating model has little influence over the function’s performance. I’ve also concluded that the supply chain waste caused by a decision- authority matrix can exceed the value it creates.
Tina Schoner

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