Category: Professionals
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.
Key Supply Chain Career Trends: 100th Episode Special
Supply chain career trends unveiled: Discover how AI, the gig economy, and soft skills shape the future of supply chain professionals.
Podcast: Servant Leadership with SVP of Supply Chain – Steve Szilagyi
Hosts: Mike Ogle and Rodney Apple In This Episode: We speak with Steve Szilagyi, in this captivating podcast we discuss leadership innovations during one of the most volatile talent placement eras we've seen in recent memory. Steve also provides his greatest lessons learned about servant leadership to get the most out of people by developing them and providing clear goals and the tools they need to succeed. Advancing Talent Through Servant Leadership — with Steve Szilagyi Hosts: Mike Ogle and Rodney Apple Guest: Steve Szilagyi, Senior Vice President, Customer Solutions, MSC Industrial Supply Co. [...]
Podcast: A Day In The Life of a Director of Continuous Improvement
Listen to our 4th episode of the Day-In-The-Life of a Supply Chain Professional podcast series! Hear the day-to-day activities of Tim York, Director of Continuous Improvement at American Products!
Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Career Paths
Strategic sourcing and procurement is a critical aspect of supply chain management. While supply chain management career paths are expansive, procurement career paths are also quite extensive as well.
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 [...]
