Written by Kirsten Watson. This guest post first appeared on Kinaxis’ industry blog, the 21st Century Supply Chain. When considering what attributes supply chain leaders are most likely to possess, it’s easy to think first of hard skills—analytical prowess, technology expertise, and operations and economics knowledge quickly come to mind. But...

In business, communication is everything. When we interview Supply Chain executives, they almost always point to communications skills (both verbal and written) as the key to progressing in your career beyond transactional and purely-analytical roles and into the manager level. More senior, manager-and-above roles (especially in Procurement and Supply Chain)...

Today’s Guest Post comes from James Wright, SCMP. James is a supply chain professional with 15 years experience in the oil and gas, telecommunications and power generation industries. His particular areas of specialization are negotiation and supplier relationship management. — My personal belief is that Supply Chain Management as a profession...

Here’s an employer branding issue that’s worth considering for all organizations hiring individuals in Supply Chain:                    What will Supply Chain people think if you take a long time to hire them? In the 21st century, organizations are realizing more than ever...

Today, we wanted to share with you a great white paper written by Mohommad Faridy, a Strategic Sourcing professional who provided us with a great recent guest blog about negotiations. Mr. Faridy is one of the most innovative and accomplished Strategic Sourcing professionals in our network, and he’s written this...

In the world of 21st-century careers, job searching and personal branding techniques are changing faster than people outside recruitment and HR can keep up with. If you’ve been in a role for a while and find yourself in the midst of a new job search, you can turn around and...

Written by Alexa Cheater. This post first appeared on Kinaxis’ industry blog, the 21st Century Supply Chain. It’s a simple question really. How confident are you in your organization’s Supply Chain, and its ability to actually perform in a way that supports your business needs? If you answered ‘not very’ you...

A while ago, we wrote about the issue of the difficulty of more mature workers finding new full-time positions in the fallout from the 2008 recession and financial crisis. We discussed how many individuals five to seven years from retirement are looking to Contract / Contingent Supply Chain roles as...

“Since the emergence and explosion of ecommerce in recent years, the simple way to say it is that the Logistics and Supply Chain profession has become kind of cool.” – Scott MacKinnon P.Log. Here’s our interview with Logistics Executive Scott MacKinnon. Scott is a visionary Logistics leader with a keen...