Supply Chain
Money talks: Making the Case for Sustainable Procurement Investments
Improve Contract Negotiations with Relationship Management
In this episode of the Sourcing Industry Landscape, Dawn Tiura interviews Danny Ertel. Danny Ertel is a Founding Partner with Vantage Partners located in Boston, Massachusetts. He joins the podcast to explain how procurement and supply chain teams can do more for the organization by aligning with the businesses that they support instead of acting as the “procurement police” and focusing only on enforcing policies.
6 Best Practices for Successful Last Mile Delivery
Women in Global Sourcing: Kimberly Blair
4 Ways Brexit Will Impact Your Procurement and Sourcing Practices
Supplier Management Made Simple, with Daryl Hammett
How Supply Chains Should Adapt to the Trade War “Truce”
Achieving the Best Possible Outcomes, with Lawrence Kane, Tim Hopper and Greg Tennyson
Think Outside the Box with Tolga Tomar
In this episode of the Sourcing Industry Landscape, Dawn Tiura interviews Tolga Tomar. Tolga Tomar is Director of Procurement at Thirty-One Gifts, a direct-selling company that empowers women to run their own consulting business. Tomar is a visionary who believes global sourcing is the future of the industry and is passionate about the positive impact it can have on communities across the world.
Artificial Intelligence: What’s Now and Next in IoT-Driven Supply Chain Innovation
Like most people, coffee is one of the most important rituals in my morning routine. There’s something about the aroma and taste that kick-starts my ability to have a great day. So, imagine my surprise when I found out that a favorite coffee shop was closed before I had to jump on an early-morning flight home. The employees were in the shop, but the gate locked out coffee aficionados, like me, who really needed that jolt of caffeine.
Inspiring and Setting Direction with Wayne Ezell
In this episode of the Sourcing Industry Landscape, Dawn Tiura interviews Wayne Ezell. Wayne Ezell, CPM, is Vice President of Procure-to-Pay with Fidelity Information Services (FIS). Ezell began his post-secondary education in physics and then moved into sourcing and procurement.
Institutions and Success: a Tribute to Douglass North
This month’s Academic of Outsourcing tribute goes to Douglass C. North for his work on “new institutional economics.” North – a professor, economist, philosopher and economic historian – was the co-recipient (with Robert Fogel) of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences “for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change.”
Brexit…Are (Retail) Companies Ready?
In a recent 4C poll* of 227 UK retail procurement executives, 89% responded that they either had no plan in place or were unaware that their company had a plan in place. What should you consider now so that you’re prepared for the March 2019 Brexit deadline?
Is your supply chain free from human rights abuses?
A 2012 report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) estimated that nearly 21 million people worldwide are victims of forced labour, with the highest concentrations found in countries in central and southeastern Europe and in Africa. With complex global supply chains the main vehicle of global trade and commerce, regulators face a stiff challenge policing against workplace abuse, especially given the pattern of outsourcing production to jurisdictions where labour standards and their enforcement are weaker than at home.