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With a focus on risk, agility and transparency, this issue of Inside Supply Management® features insights on a variety of topics. The cover feature on ISM®’s 2025 Salary Survey looks at how challenges and opportunities are shaping compensation. Read how tightening immigration policies could impact foreign-born workers and the companies that employ them, as well as how freight companies must make more educated and calculated moves in an environment threatened by tariffs. Additionally, learn how the military methodology of “wargaming” can double as an impactful boardroom business tool to spark innovation and reduce supply chain risk.
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Supply management organizations and professionals — as well as consumers — can sigh in relief, at least for now: The U.S. and China have agreed to slash tariffs.
For an organization to truly thrive and maintain a vibrant ecosystem, it relies on certain intangible yet powerful energizing forces. These are indispensable for cultivating robust relationships, enhancing productivity and ensuring the wheels of progress turn smoothly.
Supply management professionals in general reported a slight increase in average salary last year, amid a work environment characterized by changing age demographics and a persistent gender gap.
Protectionist policies like product duties have become a not-so-new normal, and avoiding or mitigating their impacts remains a complex, years-long endeavor for supply management organizations.
By integrating industry-specific approaches and forward-looking insights, businesses can improve forecasting accuracy and strategic decision-making in an ever-evolving market landscape.
Supply management professionals in general reported a slight increase in average salary last year, amid a work environment characterized by changing age demographics and a persistent gender gap.
Tightening policies and increased visa rejections would impact foreign-born workers, as well as companies that employ them — and, potentially, the quantity and quality of the U.S. skilled labor pool.
Even for logistics professionals used to uncertainty, tariffs are threatening to change the game — and in a perpetual ‘next normal,’ supply managers must make educated and calculated moves.
The military methodology of ‘wargaming’ can double as an impactful boardroom business tool to spark innovation, reduce supply chain risk and break down organizational silos.
After having a lot to talk about in its January debut, the monthly roundtable of experts from Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®) is back — because, after all, the news and its impact on companies and supply chains never stops.
President Donald Trump has imposed a 25-percent tariff on goods from Mexico and Canada. Goods coming from China have been hit with an additional 10 percent in duties. Supply chain organizations are left with dealing with volatility, uncertainty and resulting disruption.
A game show, it isn’t — but procurement’s role in getting value can be more successful by tapping technology and using four approaches to discovery.
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Stacey Taylor Vice Chair Vice President, Procurement Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
Thomas W. Derry Chief Executive Officer ISM
Miguel Gonzalez Chief Procurement Officer
American Express
John Han Founder of Intelage and Strategic Consultant Tenzing Consulting
Michelle Hawkins, PMP Senior Vice President, Strategic Procurement Charter Communications
Jeff Kimsey Vice President, Investment Intelligence Nasdaq
Joseph Matthews Vice President, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
GENTEX Corporation
Darla Morse Chief Digital and Innovation Officer Partner’s Credit Union
Kristopher Pinnow, CPSM Vice President, Global Supply Chain COLLINS AEROSPACE
Hemant Porwal, CPSM, CPSD Executive Vice President, Supply Chain and Operations WESCO International, Inc.
Judy Whipple, Ph. D.
Bowersox-Thull Endowed Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Michigan State University
Sopan Shah
Senior Vice President, Global Chief Procurement Officer
IHG Hotels & Resorts
Susanna Zhu SVP, Global Sourcing & Supply Chain Ops Bath & Body Works
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