OUR SUPPLY CHAIN RECRUITERS CAN HELP YOU:
Weak talent in your supply chain can make it difficult to achieve your business goals.
Partner with our supply chain recruiters to help propel your business to new heights.
100% specialized in end-to-end supply chain recruitment for 15+ years.
1,000+ supply chain positions filled to date, spanning most industries.
Partners Rodney Apple and Hinesh Patel have 50 years of recruitment experience at world-class organizations, several amongst the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25.
A supply chain career path looks different for every professional.
We launched Supply Chain Careers in 2021 to serve as the hub for supply chain career advancement.
Supply Chain Careers Podcast – explore career-enhancing conversations.
Supply Chain Careers Job Board – apply now or set up supply chain job alerts.
Supply Chain Careers Content Hub – explore our resources, advice and tools that have helped thousands of professionals advance their supply chain careers.
WHY SCM TALENT GROUP?
When you search for supply chain recruiters, it’s absolutely critical to engage a firm that has:
- Deep and broad supply chain recruiting experience, with the ability to understand YOUR unique supply chain and identify candidates that can assimilate quickly, while adding value
- Bountiful relationships, resources and tools to quickly identify and engage the right supply chain talent based on your most important criteria
- A robust candidate assessment process with a long history of delivering supply chain talent that meets or exceeds client expectations
- A high degree of integrity, as there are subpar, shortcut-taking recruiters out there that give the industry a bad reputation
Our Founder, Rodney Apple, began working in supply chain recruiting in 1998 before supply chain became popular in the business world (listen to his start-up story via the Supply Chain Now Podcast).
In 2001, Rodney received a call from The Home Depot, a Fortune 15 corporation at the time, concerning a project to lead recruitment for the build-out of the company’s first supply chain department. Rodney landed the role and soon after recruited their ground floor supply chain organization consisting of a VP of Supply Chain, Director of Replenishment, and 11 Sr Supply Chain Managers. He went on to lead all professional and executive supply chain recruitment for the company through 2004.
Home Depot is where Rodney fell in love with supply chain management. He recognized early on that supply chain was going to be “a big deal” for many years to come, and in 2004, Rodney formed SCM Talent Group with the goal of helping other companies build and transform their supply chain organizations.
Rodney’s first client was The Coca-Cola Company, where he spent 6+ years leading all professional and executive supply chain recruiting for 20+ factories, strategic sourcing & procurement, inventory planning, S&OP, logistics, continuous improvement, quality and related departments.
Building upon successes at Home Depot and Coca-Cola, and subsequent supply chain recruiting projects with Kimberly-Clark, Cummins, and PWC, Rodney decided to expand the company’s service offerings in 2012 beyond exclusive retained client engagements.
From 2014-2021 Rodney proudly served as the Supply Chain Career Coach for the Association of Supply Chain Management Professionals (ASCM, formerly APICS) and led the Professional Development department as a writer for ASCM’s magazine, SCM Now.
Rodney also authors The Supply Chain Talent Blog and has been featured in many of the leading supply chain trade journals over the years sharing his expertise in supply chain recruiting and career development. In 2021 Rodney will be publishing his first book titled Supply Chain Careers – the Guidebook for Launching and Accelerating your Career in Supply Chain Management.
SCM Talent Group currently offers a broad range of customizable supply chain recruiting services that include Retained Executive Search, Contract Staffing, Interim Executives, and Contingency Search.
The firm is headquartered in downtown Asheville, NC and our supply chain recruiters support clients across most major industries throughout the United States.
OUR SUPPLY CHAIN RECRUITING PROCESS

Sample Positions our Supply Chain Recruiters have filled:
Chief Operating Officer
Chief Supply Chain Officer
EVP of Global Supply Chain
VP of Supply Chain
VP of Logistics
VP of Transportation
VP of Manufacturing
VP of Operations
President
VP of Distribution
VP of Procurement
Director of Demand Planning
Director of S&OP
Director of Operations
Director of Transportation
Director of Logistics