Category: Employers
Developing Future Leaders | Best Practices & Challenges
Developing future leaders can be difficult. Learn these best practices for leadership development and how to identify potential leaders.
Leadership Soft Skills – Leadership Series Ep 17
Master the leadership soft skills required to effectively operate at a high level. Enhance efficiency, innovation, and competitiveness.
Leading Orchestrated Supply Chains: The Keys To Success – Leadership Series Ep 16
Strategies for leading orchestrated supply chains effectively. Learn how integration, flexibility, and technology can drive success.
Innovative Employee Retention Strategies Include 4 Day Work Week
Introduction Competition for top tier talent continues to be an issue, especially in supply chain. Employers are striving for balance between attracting the best talent and using innovative employee retention strategies to fill out their org charts. Things like employee engagement are increased while employee turnover is reduced with these work-life balance and employee retention strategies. Since the world was turned upside down in 2020 with a Pandemic, there has been a back and forth between employee and an employer driven work world. In 2020, the pendulum started out in favor of employees as fully remote workplaces evolved out [...]
Podcast: Servant Leadership with SVP of Supply Chain – Steve Szilagyi
Steve Szilagyi, Senior Vice President of Supply Chain at MSC Industrial Supply Co. talks with us about his greatest lessons learned about servant leadership.
Future of Logistics: Exploring Insights & Innovation
Discover the future of logistics and how technology, sustainability, and human collaboration are shaping a responsive industry.
The Rise of Fractional Supply Chain Executives – with Dan Marous, Interim/Fractional CSCO & COO
Explore the rise of fractional supply chain executives and their impact on the future of supply chain management & employment.
Director of Procurement Job Description and Position Overview
Introduction The Director of Procurement plays a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth functioning of an organization's supply chain and procurement processes. They are responsible for overseeing the sourcing, purchasing, and negotiation of goods and services necessary for the organization's operations. This role demands strategic thinking, strong negotiation skills, and a deep understanding of market dynamics to optimize procurement strategies and drive cost efficiencies. This Director of Procurement job description will help employers better understand they type of individual they’ll need to hire as well as how best to find these candidates in the most efficient manner. Director of [...]
Price Bumps Turn to Brand Marketing for CPG Companies
Introduction Economic levers being pulled by manufacturing companies in 2024 involve marketing and volume plays. Companies don’t have the power to push prices like they did in 2020 and later. Those margins are now fixed. Unlike a lot of the tech world, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies don’t have the option really to reduce labor costs in any meaningful way to recoup margins without also compromising production. They have hence turned to investing these price hike profits in marketing to increase brand awareness. Supply chain pressures easing have allowed a lot more flexibility in how these organizations use their [...]
Channel Free Logistics Innovates Supply Chain’s Traditional Operations
Introduction According to Bill Thayer, “Logistics is the part of retail where you can truly be very collaborative.” Thayer’s company Fillogic has developed a process and practice he dubs “channel free logistics.” We talked to Thayer on our most recent podcast about how he developed this concept as well as how he came to learn about the importance of logistics practices in the effectiveness of retail operations. One thing we came away from was his insistence on the criticality of relationships and collaborations in creating more effective logistics modes. We also discuss how Fillogic has been able to engage [...]
