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July/August 2021

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    Celebrating the Profession

    Regarded as a role model and ‘go-to expert in the field,’ Sidney Johnson is the 2021 recipient of supply management’s highest honor, the J. Shipman Gold Medal Award.
    Sue Doerfler

Featured Content

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    ‘Comfortable Being Uncomfortable’

    fter graduating with a major in industrial engineering at University of Pittsburgh, Kylie Mazurek, CPSM, was hired into a procurement role managing natural gas and electricity spend at United States Steel Corporation (U.S. Steel) in Pittsburgh.
    Sue Doerfler
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    Integration, Innovation and Impact

    Through collaboration and relationship building with internal and external stakeholders, among other endeavors, the ISM® 30 Under 30 Rising Supply Chain Stars are elevating supply management in their organizations.
    Sue Doerfler
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    Scholars Set to Seize Opportunities

    The recipients of the 2021 R. Gene Richter Awards possess a strong desire to learn and take an evolving supply management profession into tomorrow.
    Sue Doerfler
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    ISM®’s 2021 Salary Survey: ‘Sticker Shock’

    As the pandemic put unprecedented emphasis on the importance of supply management, the profession’s wage-growth trend should continue — especially amid a critical talent shortage.
    Dan Zeiger

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Negotiations: ‘Power With’ Versus ‘Power Over’

No one was born a negotiator. Becoming one requires many years of developing a learned, stylistic art form.
Kimberly Branch
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Perspectives

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been a “black swan” event that has impacted the world like never before. It was a complete surprise for most supply chain organizations across industries. While risks like an act-of-God event can have far-reaching impacts, never before has one led to people worldwide stuck in their homes, forced to social distance and frustrated by the imposed and seemingly endless privacy.
Marcelo Cardoso, MBA
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Enhancing SRM through Sentiment Analysis

Over the past year, supply chain risk management has received much attention. Overreliance on some suppliers, single sourcing and globalization were already building the risk recipe when the last ingredient, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, became the salt that intensified the flavor.
Nikhil Parva, Tobias Schoenherr, Ph.D.
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A Change Agent in a Data-Driven World

Change is a constant. There is no continuous improvement without change. Every day, new information comes into our lives, businesses, processes — everything. We use this information to decide whether or not we should do something different to obtain better results. Without change, we cannot aspire to improve.
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A COVID-19 Transformation of Leadership and Talent

The supply management world has changed. It had to. It was already under pressure due to the need for better stakeholder relationships, team-member engagement and growing societal and workplace fervor around equity, equality, justice and inclusion.
Corey Matthews
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Analytics Analysis: How Data Improves Decision-Making

A category-management playbook can serve as a guide to supply management professionals who are either beginning their journey or who want to improve how they execute category management. Successful category management can help supply managers be more strategic with goods and services, align to the business and leverage resources.
CAPS Research
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An Inflation Game Plan to Create Competitive Advantage

Across the economy, we are seeing inflationary signals. In recent months, the ISM® Report on Business® Manufacturing and Services Prices indexes have reached their highest levels in more than a decade.
Bob Tevelson, Harish Hemmige, Dan Belz, Tom Rapp, MBA

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