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May/June 2021

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    Fulfilling Future Needs

    As supply management roles evolve and become more strategic, such skills as collaboration, communication, analytics capabilities and business acumen are necessary to increase the function’s value and impact.
    Sue Doerfler

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    Executive Decision

    President Biden’s directive to review supply chain risks and industrial bases is designed to address vulnerabilities decades in the making — and could lead to structural changes that end the ‘good run’ of lowest-cost sourcing.
    Dan Zeiger
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    Changing Classrooms, Evolving Education

    In preparing students for post-pandemic workplaces, university supply management programs, like the profession as a whole, must contend with disruptions like COVID-19 and address the need for new skills, agility and technologies.
    Sue Doerfler
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    Taking Aim at Strategic Targets

    Collaboration between project and contract managers can lead to efficiencies and opportunities, but Sandia National Laboratories has found that early procurement involvement and a change-management approach are critical.
    Laura Lovato, MBA, CFCM, CPCM, PMP, Nando Betancur, MBA, CPSD, James Burt, MBA, CPSM, CPSD, PMP

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From Passion to Prerequisite: Leveraging Data and Analytics

Many people in supply management came from another profession, but few have made the kind of career change I did — from more than 20 years in newspapers as a sportswriter, covering everything from Little League to the World Series and Super Bowl. When I joined Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®) in 2015, it was like walking into a whole new arena.
Dan Zeiger
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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.
Niraj Singh, CPSM, CSCP, CSCMP, PMP
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A Supplier Prequalification Recipe to Limit Risk

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.
Denis Sanchez, MS, MA, MCIPS
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Researching Trends and ‘Synthesizing Knowledge’ for Future Supply Managers

Lisa Ellram, Ph.D., MBA, C.P.M. University Distinguished professor and James Evan Rees Distinguished professor of supply chain management
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Bridging the Age Divide in the Workplace

Creating an inclusive workplace with a multigenerational workforce often requires recalibrating ingrained perceptions and assumptions about others and preventing unconscious bias from influencing actions.
Suzanne Weston
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Analytics Analysis: How Data Improves Decision-Making

Procurement analytics is designed to provide data-driven solutions to supply management problems. Analytics leverages the organizational capabilities in data management to provide intelligent support for procurement decision-making. Analytics facilitates data collection from several source systems, classifying data to specific taxonomies and visualizing KPIs on dashboards or within business-intelligence tools.
Carlos Mena, Eng.D., Raghu T. Santanam, Ph.D.
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An Empire-Sized History Lesson on Supply Chain Security

As I flew into Fiumicino International Airport in Rome several months ago, I was struck by how this most modern of ancient cities — which was, like the rest of the world, struggling with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic — had overcome much worse over its long history. Rome, which has seen the best and worst in the human experience, is also a great example of perseverance and creativity in the face of adversity.
Chris Martus, CPSM, CPSD, C.P.M.

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