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Ascend’ to New Heights in Strategic Supply Chain Management

March 10, 2026
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Sessions on trending topics like AI deployment, application and governance as well as networking opportunities and a keynote by Kara Swisher highlight ISM World 2026 in Denver.

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January 12, 2026
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The Year Ahead for Supply Chain Management

The many and varied events of 2025 pushed resilience the top of every procurement and logistics leader’s agenda and offered valuable lessons that businesses will put in to practice throughout this year.
Joe Elliott
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August 27, 2024
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The Monthly Metric: Unscheduled Downtime

When downtime is unscheduled due to unexpected circumstances like equipment failures, system outages or product shortages, it becomes especially costly.
Dan Zeiger
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January 27, 2026
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Tariff Flashpoints Importers Can't Ignore

Duties are once again being used as instruments of political leverage, regulatory clarity is lagging behind political announcements, and the courts are poised to weigh in on the future of existing trade authorities.
Shannon Hynds
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January 20, 2026
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Leveraging Supplier Conditioning in an Inflationary Environment

Organizations can leverage a deliberate process of training, guiding and influencing suppliers to behave, perform and think in a way that creates sustainable value.
Collins Oluka, MBA, CPSM

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‘Ascend’ to New Heights in Strategic Supply Chain Management

March 10, 2026
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Sessions on trending topics like AI deployment, application and governance as well as networking opportunities and a keynote by Kara Swisher highlight ISM World 2026 in Denver.
Sue Doerfler
  • March 10, 2026
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    The Supply Manager’s Tariffs Survival Guide

    More than 20 strategies — from free trade zones to freight consolidation to AI and other technologies — can help organizations mitigate risk and control costs when importing goods to the U.S.
    Thomas Cook
  • March 10, 2026
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    Stealth Sustainability

    Amid political backlash and ‘greenhushing,’ most companies and supply chain leaders are ‘lowering their heads’ and continuing to embed corporate social responsibility into operations.
    Dan Zeiger
  • March 10, 2026
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    The End of the Throwaway Supply Chain

    Circular models that prioritize repair, reuse and material recovery are moving from sustainability experiment to operational necessity as companies confront resource risk and new global regulations.
    Bhubalan Mani, CSCP
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November 12, 2025
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‘Manufacturing Powerhouse’

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is an emerging force — as a region and as individual countries, each with their own supply chain strengths — that bridges East and West.
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November 12, 2025
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The Warehouse of the Future Is Taking Shape

Facilities are rapidly evolving into hyperconnected ecosystems, with automation, flexible technologies and new worker roles redefining how products move from ‘buy now’ to delivery.
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January 27, 2026
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Setting a Strong Foundation as an Emerging Professional

The approach and mindset you establish early in your career can shape your trajectory and lay the groundwork for long-term success.
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January 14, 2026
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What Returning to College Has Taught Me About Modern Procurement

After years of leading procurement and logistics operations for multimillion-dollar infrastructure projects, I wanted to see how business theory could strengthen the systems I once built through experience alone.

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