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January/February 2023

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January/February 2023

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    Wild Cards and Moving Parts

    Anticipating the economy’s trajectory is no easy feat given unpredictable variables and changes that are happening at ‘light speed.’
    Sue Doerfler

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    A Tangled Labor Tug-of-War

    With multiple forces that have pulled some companies into making layoffs while others are still desperate to hire, supply management employment issues have rarely, if ever, been more complex — and will likely remain so in the next few years.
    Dan Zeiger
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    The Inventories Puzzle

    After a tumultuous year in which many (but not all) supply chains unclogged while demand decreased, the ‘very complex’ task of managing stock levels has become as challenging as ever.
    Dan Zeiger
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    A Novel Approach to Managing Indirect Spend

    Smart consumption methodology and its five pillars can help companies achieve sustained results by capturing impactful savings and embedding behavioral change into the organization.
    Frank Palmer, Tom Rapp, Dan Belz, Bob Tevelson, Tyler Vigen

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Lessons Learned in the Search of Normalization

If there’s a common sentiment in supply management from 2020 to now, it’s perhaps that policymakers are guilty of overcorrecting: from one direction (coronavirus pandemic lockdowns) to the opposite (monetary and fiscal policies that fueled high demand). Is it possible that, like Goldilocks, we veered from too cold to too hot, yet ended up with just right? 
Thomas W. Derry
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Perspectives

Companies continuously face product shortages, inflation is causing margin issues, inventories aren’t where they should be due to logistics constraints, communication breakdowns have led to frustration, and labor shortages are causing discomfort, if not panic.
Arun Suryawanshi
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Optimizing S2P Systems After Implementation

Coronavirus pandemic challenges provided the right opportunity to create a collaborative, cross-functional and necessary virtual environment. This has driven an urgent need to determine how to support business as usual — while experiencing the unusual.
Traci Nichols, C.P.M.
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Using Technology as a Window into Supply Chains

Managing ongoing disruption and mitigating risk are critical dynamics for most organizations as they struggle with supply continuity, demand volatility, inflation, logistics problems and more. But issue avoidance is an even better strategy.
Sue Doerfler
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COVID-19 ‘Changed the World,’ So Employers Flex for Options

Increasing numbers of companies are asking employees to return to the office, but workers are balking, preferring the flexibility of working remotely, at least two or three days a week.
Sue Doerfler
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January 11, 2023
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Sourcing Cost Models Should Account for Supply Chain Risk

The coronavirus pandemic revealed that many companies lack an understanding of supply risks in their lower supply chain tiers. Resilient sourcing strategies, however, require a comprehensive understanding of supply risks and their impact on supply continuity.
Robert Wiedmer, Ph.D., Mikaella Polyviou, Ph.D., Srimathy Mohan, Ph.D., Carlos Mena, Eng.D., Zachary S. Rogers, Ph.D.
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Capacity and Capability Are Critical to Risk Mitigation

With supply chain challenges continuing to surface every day, one strategy vital to risk mitigation is an internal assessment of operation capacity and capability.
Elsio R. Negrón, MBA, CPSM, CPSD, C.P.M.,
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January 11, 2023
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Maximizing the Impact of Leadership

Leadership is ultimately the act and art of influencing. We need other people’s collaboration to be successful, so those who can effectively influence others will be the most successful over time.
Mandy Flint, Elisabet Vinberg Hearn

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