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Jan 3, 2025

The Role of Centers of Excellence in Supply Chain Transformation

In 2025, we will likely see many supply chain organizations creating multi-purpose COEs that carry out several different processes. Organizations may begin with a COE focused on transactional work around…

May 20, 2025

Current issues facing supply chain managers in an era of uncertainty

I was recently asked about a few questions related to how managers should be navigating the waters around the tariff uncertainty, AI, contracting, and a host of other issues. Here…

Apr 30, 2025

What areas of SCM are best suited for the application of AI?

Many of the managers I speak with are buying into the application of artificial intelligence in the workplace, but often struggle to identify specific processes that are best suited for…

Apr 25, 2025

Increasing the “Values” in Your Value Chain

This guest post was created by Russ Shumaker and Ben Barras of World Vision. Ben is a faculty advisor in our Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, and just completed an incredible…

Mar 19, 2025

Why New Tariffs Won’t Bring Jobs Back to the United States

My colleague Jon Pershke, a former Lenovo strategy executive who now serves as a Faculty Advisor at our Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, recently presented me with the following scenario. :Let’s…

Feb 24, 2025

Worried about Impending Tariffs?

Tariffs are likely coming… what should you and your key global suppliers be doing to get ready for it? Last week I sat in on a great panel at the…

Feb 8, 2025

Trump’s Negotiation Strategy

The last four weeks have been really chaotic for business executives, trying to understand when the impact of tariffs and new trade policies will take place, or if they are…

Jan 17, 2025

Trust without vulnerability can’t exist in supply chain relationships

People often throw around the term “trust” in discussing supply chain relationships. Trust (and its cousin, Collaboration) seems to be a highly discussed element of effective supply chain relationships. In…

May 23, 2025

The Domino Effect of Global Tariffs on the Supply Chain

The announcement of tariffs on “Liberation Day” has created a cascading set of outcomes for global supply chains. The first impact was that every US-based company has essentially gone into…

Dec 17, 2024

Myths Regarding Impact of Tariffs’ Impact on the Global Economy Economy

With a new Trump administration coming into power in January 2025, one of the biggest fears that businesses are waiting to hear about is tariffs. President-elect Trump has offered that…