Category: Employers
Podcast: Navigating Complex Supply Chain Transformations – with Chris Brown, Sr. VP of Supply Chain & Operations
Listen to our 53rd Supply Chain Careers Series Episode featuring Chris Brown, Senior VP of Supply Chain and Operations, Rise Baking Company.
The Rise of Recruiters for Remote Jobs
Recruiters for remote jobs specialize in negotiating candidate desires with client needs in a rapidly changing talent landscape.
Top Reasons Companies Prefer Specialized Recruiters
Specialized recruiters are experts in their field with deeper and broader relationships and better access to specialized talent.
Supply Chain Leadership Series Ep 10: The Art of Servant Leadership
In the 10th Leadership Series episode, listen and learn about what it takes to be and live the role of the servant leader.
Co Sourcing Partners Impact Outcomes and Profitability
By Chris Gaffney and Karen Bird Find the Right Co-Sourcing Partner Building capability in your supply chain used to be a bright-line distinction: Either you did it yourself or you hired someone else to handle it entirely. In-sourcing versus outsourcing, all or nothing, whether you were looking at planning, execution, or even the physical work of supply chain operations. Today's complex and ever-shifting environment, though, requires a more nuanced and flexible approach that can deliver both agility and deep expertise at different levels, depending on the situation: Co-Sourcing. Co-sourcing is an intentional blending of sorts: It's the shared delivery [...]
Diversity in Supply Chain – (DEI) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Supply Chains
Managing diversity in your company’s supply chain workforce can be challenging. However, the overall benefits of a diverse workforce improve your company’s worth. In business, the bottom line indicates the health and growth of a company. Most return on investment (ROI) numbers can be calculated fairly easily, but there are some intangibles that improve ROI and aren’t so easy to correlate. One such “intangible” is diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in a company’s workforce. In this article, we make a case for actively pursuing DEI (sometimes called just D&I for Diversity and Inclusion), in supply chains and business. Multiple guests on the Supply Chain Careers Podcast have emphasized how diverse backgrounds and viewpoints positively enhance the ability for supply [...]
Will Remote Working Die? Here’s Why That’s Highly Doubtful
It continues to be advantageous for supply chain employers to provide remote work opportunities, if for no other reason than you expand your available talent pool in an already shallow market.
Podcast: Building Networks Before You Need Them – with Mark Shaughnessy, President, Crowsnest Capital, Inc
Listen to our 52nd Supply Chain Careers Series Episode featuring Mark Shaughnessy, President, Crowsnest Capital
Why Your Supply Chain Recruiters Should Be Supply Chain Consultants
Sourcing top notch supply chain talent has become just as volatile as the supply chain itself and requires specialized recruiters who double as supply chain consultants and talent advisors for your organization. Disruption and volatility has become the norm in the world of supply chain. The field was wrought with archaic processes, aging workforce, and prone to delays from things like weather events and political whims. It now seems that geopolitical impulses and volatile externalities have had a permanent disruptive impact on the end to end supply chain world. Because of this, it has become ever more important to be able to rely on your specialized supply chain recruiter as a supply chain consultant.
Successful Change Management in Supply Chain is about Process & People
Successful change management and organizational transformation depends largely on procuring buy-in from each level of the organization.
