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How To Increase Productivity In Your Supply Chain Team
When you’re managing a supply chain, you may start to notice that productivity is decreasing on your team. What can you do to re-motivate your employees so you can meet your goals? Here’s how to identify and prepare for these situations and get your team back on track. Communication is key. Most people think…
Read More5 Tactics For Successfully Negotiating in Procurement
With the increasingly global nature of the supply chain in today’s business marketplace, and the accompanying skills that modern Chief Procurement and Supply Chain Officers need to learn, it’s easy to forget the importance of one of the most basic‑but vital—skills out there: effective negotiation. Learning to negotiate well takes time and practice, but here…
Read MoreSupply Chain Issues: Are You In the Know About Social and Environmental Responsibility?
As supply chains go global, the pressure is on to be both socially and environmentally responsible. How does your supply chain stack up? Do your executives support this important trend? Social Responsibility: Why It’s Become Important Within the last two years, many major consumer brands have implemented programs in their overseas plants to…
Read More5 Tips For Effectively Managing A Global Supply Chain
In the modern supply chain marketplace, it’s almost impossible not to work with another country or countries. And because every country has different business practices, laws and standards, it’s important to know what you’re dealing with. Here’s how: Find An In-Country Representative This is a great place to delegate. Find a supply chain management consultant…
Read More5 Tips for Retaining Your Top Supply Chain Talent
Keeping your best supply chain workers satisfied and fully engaged is extremely important to your success. If you don’t, you can find yourself losing employees and facing the time, effort and money it takes to hire and train new supply chain personnel. Avoid turnover and expense by giving your employees what they want: Career Development…
Read MoreHow To Motivate Your Supply Chain Managers and Employees
How can you get your managers and other employees to be productive and do their best work? It’s all about style – your management style, that is. How you relate to your employees has a huge impact on how well they work for you. So how can you make sure you’re doing it right? They…
Read MoreAre you offering competitive Supply Chain Salaries?
You may think you can offer a lower salary to a supply chain candidate who has been out of work for a while, or is new to the job market. After all, shouldn’t they be grateful for any salary they can get? Well, no. A savvy supply chain professional will know exactly what his or…
Read MoreAre You Having Trouble Hiring Supply Chain Talent? Could The Reason Be Your Interview Process?
You may be great at identifying and finding supply chain talent, but if you can’t bring them onboard at your company, what good does it do you? It may be time to change your hiring process to change your hiring luck. Take a look at how your company hires to see if you’re making any…
Read MoreDo You Think there is a Decline in the Pool of Supply Chain Talent?
According to a recent survey, hiring managers in the supply chain are highly concerned about mid-management vacancies and what they see as a declining pool of talent. What has caused this supposed shortage of supply chain talent? In most cases, it is attributed to a skills gap—people with undergraduate and graduate degrees in supply chain…
Read MoreHow to Brand Yourself as a Thought Leader in Supply Chain
One great way to get ahead in the supply chain industry is to brand yourself as a thought leader, or an authority in the field. But how? You may think that unless you run the biggest supply chain organization in the country and are often interviewed for the news, you won’t have many opportunities to…
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