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March/April 2022

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    Companies can achieve bottom-line benefits through environmental, social and governance standards, and the ISM World 2022 Annual Conference will focus on helping supply management professionals deliver that value.
    Dan Zeiger

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    Breaking the Supply Chain Shackles

    Forced labor has been prevalent in the world’s fields, factories and fisheries, but amid strengthening legislation, ‘now is the time’ for companies to limit or eliminate an abhorrent practice from their product pipelines.
    Dan Zeiger
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    Delivering a Greener Future

    As the logistics space strives for more sustainability, companies must manage new technologies, the need for accountability and challenges to infrastructure.
    Sue Doerfler
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    The Sustainability Equilibrium

    Environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards are becoming the norm for organizations, and the trade-offs required to achieve them are diminishing.
    Sue Doerfler

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Great Expectations: Emerging Practitioners Are Impacting the Profession

Recent years have posed significant supply chain challenges. Interestingly, these challenges appear to have opened new opportunities for emerging practitioners, who have capitalized on them to make significant impacts on their organizations early in their careers.
Nora Neibergall, CPSM, CPSD, C.P.M.
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Perspectives

My belief is that established professionals learn more from educational volunteering than those they are there to serve. Students ask the most insightful and challenging questions — by definition, you learn as you converse.
Lara Nichols
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Are We Technologists or Supply Chain Managers?

The term “supply chain” has become prominent in everyday vernacular due to supply and demand challenges resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. Everyone seems to be conversant in supply chain problems and the dynamics of flexibility, visibility, agility, responsiveness, traceability and reliability.
Victor E. Sower, Ph.D., CQE, Pamela J. Zelbst, Ph.D., PMP
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Liaison Drives Improvement for Organization — and Self

Issac Thomas, CPSM Position: Senior business analyst, supply chain services, at Georgia Transmission Corporation
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University Partnerships Can Aid in Talent Quest

In the quest for emerging supply management talent, companies often turn to university career fairs to meet with potential candidates. However, engaging with those students and their universities earlier and in other ways can often be more effective for talent acquisition.
Sue Doerfler
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The Sound Investment of Supply Management

While supply management has elevated its status as a strategic business partner during the coronavirus pandemic, conveying the function’s value to company executives and other stakeholders has traditionally been a challenge for practitioners.
Dan Zeiger
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How to Leverage Trends Induced by Recent Turmoil

A new year brings new energy and new zeal to work toward what we could not in the past. But what leads to a new us is a past us that we wish to change or renew for a better tomorrow.
Raj Mishra

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