Supply Chain Management Article Library

Mar 6, 2017

Four Receive Watauga Medal

Four individuals received the Watauga Medal, NC State University’s highest nonacademic honor, during the annual Founders’ Day celebration held Friday evening, March 3, at Talley Student Union.

Mar 6, 2017

Financial Times Ranks NC State Top-20 Online MBA

NC State’s Jenkins Professional Online MBA is No. 18 among the top 20 programs worldwide, according to the Financial Times’ 2017 ranking of global online MBA programs.

Mar 4, 2017

SCRC Meeting: Mapping the Road Ahead in a Time of Daily Disconcerting Tweets

This week we announced the theme of our upcoming Supply Chain Resource Cooperative meeting.  The theme of the meeting, “Mapping the Road Ahead in Uncertain Times”, brings together a number…

Mar 3, 2017

Innovative Approaches to Supply Chain Quality

On February 23, 2017, I attended a Supply Chain event at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. The speakers at the event focused on new approaches and advances to supply chains…

Mar 2, 2017

Participate in ‘Women’s Herstory Month’ Events in March

Throughout March, the NC State Women’s Center will celebrate “Finding Our Freedom” with four signature events and other activities on campus.

Feb 23, 2017

How does procurement evaluate outsource providers?

In the RFQ process, procurement should ideally be transparent about answering this question.  Too often, however, the sales team at suppliers providing the bid have to “guess” at what they…

Feb 22, 2017

Graduate Teams Showcase Business Ideas

At NC State, entrepreneurship is a part of our culture. Learn more about the recent Product Innovation Lab, where interdisciplinary graduate teams compete to see who has the best business idea to bring to market.

Feb 14, 2017

Bad Data + Lack of Standards = Lousy Supply Chain Analytics

One of the truths that is often overlooked in the splurge of press and hype around “Analytics” is the need for data integrity.  You can’t have analytics without data that…

Feb 12, 2017

Best Practice: Creating a Governance Mechanism for Analytical Learning in Organizations

I recently interviewed a large semiconductor company that developed a cross-enterprise initiative to drive analytical learning across its entire supply chain. The company established a supply chain IT organization that reports…

Feb 7, 2017

Harvard Business Review- Holistic Talent-Supply Chain Management

Every company faces challenges, especially as a firm aims to manage a global footprint. In a recent survey of more than 300 global executives from companies of every size, the…