Archive for June 2014
How to be a Strong Team Leader in Supply Chain
As a leader in your supply chain organization, it’s your job to guide your colleagues towards accomplishing specific goals. Even if you consistently reach your goals, could your leadership use some improvement? Here are three ways to help you evaluate your effectiveness as a leader and see where you can improve: Do you connect and…
Read MoreDoes Your Internal Hiring Team Need Help?
Whether you’re an established supply chain company or department, or a startup, hiring the right people is crucial to success. But hiring the wrong people not only wastes time, it wastes money. How can you tell whether your hiring team is equipped for the job, or could use help? The hiring process takes too long.…
Read MoreHow to Maintain Speed, Efficiency and Most Importantly…Safety!
If you’re in a supply chain management position, you’re always working toward higher speed and greater efficiency—but have you put safety on the back burner? How much thought and strategy have you put into promoting safety in the workplace? The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) requires companies to offer a work environment free from…
Read MoreHow are you managing Product Lifestyle Logistics?
Supply chain management was supposed to promote greater coordination across supply chain functions. But corporations still continue to manage individual stages of the chain in isolation—creating waste, redundancy and unexpected costs. So how can these problems be solved? Better Communication Today’s supply chains tend to be compartmentalized, with a focus more on discrete supply chain…
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