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Apr 12, 2019

Helping UPS Craft Its Vision and Strategy (Partner Spotlight)

Founded in 1907 as a messenger company in the United States, UPS has grown into a multibillion-dollar corporation by clearly focusing on enabling commerce around the globe. Today, UPS is…

Apr 12, 2019

Alena Turner BS’19: Raising the Bar for Supply Chain Students at NC State

Alena Turner is not your average supply chain student at NC State. That is, not many students can say they helped save an aerospace and defense company over $1 million,…

Apr 11, 2019

Lindsay Schilleman MBA’17: A Day in the Life

Lindsay Schilleman is a 2017 NC State Jenkins MBA alumna and Supply Chain Analyst at VF Corp. In this third installment of our “Day in the Life” Series — outlined…

Apr 10, 2019

Comments from Former Fed Chief Janet Yellen at ISM Meeting 2019

I had an opportunity to speak at ISM this week on a presentation related to our just released CAPS study on combating counterfeiting.  At the main session Tuesday morning, I…

Apr 6, 2019

Can Technology Improve Contract Renewal Processes? Paper 4 in the Series on Contract Management

Our fourth paper in our series on contract management features a great summary by Sara Sonderman, who pulls together some great information on the application of technology in contract management…

Apr 3, 2019

Summary of Development and Manufacture Contracts in the Aerospace and Defense Industries

Our third contract research paper is by James Wilkinson, focusing on aerospace contracts which typically entail a great deal of risk (as illustrated by the Boeing 737 MAX incident…) The…

Apr 3, 2019

Discussion with Tim Cummins Captured on Video

I had a fantastic conversation with Tim Cummins of IACCM in a videotaped webinar yesterday, and we discussed some of the many elements that surround contract risk.  The link to…

Apr 1, 2019

Risk Management in Contract Pharmaceutical Development: Contract Research Part 2

The second installation in our series on contract management research published by MBA students from my online Contract Management class is by Julia Condit, and focuses on the challenges of…

Mar 30, 2019

Smart Contracts in a Paper World

This is the first of several research articles on contract management produced by our MBA students in our online Contract Management class.  The first of these is by Mike Petrillo,…

Mar 22, 2019

Procurement Leadership Workshop: Addressing the Need for a New Stakeholder Influence Model

Some of the typical complaints I hear from procurement colleagues are the same ones I heard 20 years ago, and it seems as if nothing has changed. “Procurement doesn’t get…