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May/June 2023

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    The Changing Hospital Procurement Prognosis

    Product and labor shortages still abound — and cost is still paramount — but health-care systems are realizing the value and opportunities their supply chains can bring in other ways.
    Sue Doerfler

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    ‘The Freight Party is Over’

    After two years of elevated rates and record profits, ocean carriers face changing tides, including a pricing power shift, capacity conundrum and innovation vacuum.
    Dan Zeiger
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    Constantly Calling Audibles

    When the Super Bowl came to Arizona, local suppliers discovered the flexibility required to handle the challenges — exacerbated in some cases by an incomplete playbook from the NFL — of working football’s biggest event.
    Melanie Stern
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    A Powerful ‘Voice’ to Drive Supply Assurance

    A pilot program to address semiconductor shortages at Jaguar Land Rover has combined transparency, consistency and collaboration to accelerate the automaker’s procurement function.
    Heiko Gierhardt, Ph.D., Florian Burgdorf, Ph.D., Wolfgang Schnellbächer, Ph.D., Matt Crawford, Lena Edig

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Balancing Risk and Agility to Enable Innovation

Many of us in the supply management community foresee more turbulence ahead, both predictable and unavoidable. Agility allows an organization to renew itself, adapt and succeed in a rapidly evolving, ambiguous and turbulent environment. It’s important to remember how agility supports organizational practices and the people who drive your business toward the achievement of goals. 
Susan Marty
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Perspectives

How are leading oil-field services companies leveraging synergies to manage their transport and mobilization spend?
Vinit Pednekar
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Advancing Sustainability as a Supply Chain Component

Sustainability has taken a back seat for companies as they deal with the more pressing concerns of inflation and supply chain risk.
Sue Doerfler
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Robots Could Be Supply Chain Saviors

At the Pack Expo International 2022 conference in Chicago, I was struck by the advancements in robots and automation. I marveled at the futuristic capabilities of automated machines and artificial intelligence (AI) equipment. And I realized that the scenarios played out in the sci-fi movies over the years are closer to reality than you might think.
Tom Newmaster
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Blending Workforces and Technology for Future Success

Chris Sawchuk is constantly asked about his thoughts for the future. His response? “If you try to figure out the future by looking within the four walls of procurement, you’re never going to see it,” says Sawchuk, principal and global procurement advisory practice leader at The Hackett Group, the Miami-based business consultancy.
Sue Doerfler
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Supply Management’s Role in Reducing GHG Emissions

Climate should be a top-down and bottom-up priority, tapping such resources as employees and customers. Discussions must become part of corporate culture and decision-making for companies to adapt and meet their climate goals.
Lisa M. Ellram, Ph.D., MBA, Wendy Tate, Ph.D., MBA,
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Creating a New Supply Chain to Reduce CO2

In American cities, 36 million trees fall down — or are cut down — every year. Ninety percent of them get chipped or burnt or sent to a landfill. But some of that wood could be reused into durable goods like flooring or furniture that sequester carbon dioxide (CO2), thus reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Sue Doerfler
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Be a Disruptive Leader

Many mentoring programs fail, despite the best of intentions and thorough plans. But it doesn’t have to be that way. “Organic mentoring” can make a difference. 
Mandy Flint, Elisabet Vinberg Hearn

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