In the fast-changing world of strategic Procurement, certain categories of spend get all the thunder: IT Procurement gets to help drive a company’s innovation. Business Services Procurement gets to restructure a company’s operations and drive competitiveness....
Month: January 2017
Finding a Way Out of Inventory Dilemmas
This guest post comes from Fronetics, a boutique marketing firm focused on the Supply Chain and Logistics industries. Written by Frank Cavallero. Having a modern, flexible supply chain is important to finding the way out of inventory dilemmas. Imagine your irritation...
Reader Mailbag: Should You Get an MBA in Supply Chain, or a Designation?
Here’s the first instalment of a new Argentus feature where we answer your career questions. We’re starting this feature to help put our years of recruitment experience to good use, whether your questions are specific to our recruiting specialty of...
LinkedIn Has Salary Data Now!
It shouldn't come as a surprise to any reader of the Argentus blog that we’re big fans of LinkedIn. Because it’s the biggest, most popular social network for careers, we use it to share our content, to help source candidates, and to keep up-to-date with new...
The Growing Role of AI in Supply Chain Management
Written by Alexa Cheater. This guest post first appeared on Kinaxis’ industry blog, The 21st Century Supply Chain. Rapidly evolving technology and a digitally focused world have opened the door for a new wave of automation to enter the workforce. Robots already stand...
Why It’s Time to Pay Attention to Reverse Logistics
Part of our mission at Argentus is to draw attention to all aspects of the wild and woolly world of Supply Chain – a world whose results we take for granted as consumers, but whose processes go on almost entirely beyond our attention. Supply Chains deliver a...
3 Reasons Why Millennials Should Land a Job in Supply Chain Management
This guest post comes from Yosra Musa, an inventory analyst and emerging Supply Chain professional. She runs Small Seed Consulting. "What is supply chain management?” is a question I’ve become deeply familiar with since first pursuing my post-graduate...
“Uber for Trucking” is Coming: What Does That Mean for the Supply Chain Industry?
On the Argentus blog, we’ve done a few updates about Amazon’s increasing attempts to vertically integrate and control every aspect of their Supply Chain. They’ve made forays into the wholesale market, and begun a roll-out of brick and mortar stores. Now, it...
France’s Radical Workplace Idea: No Emails at Home
Here’s a new frontier in work-life balance: For the past several years, work-life balance has been one of the biggest topics in employer and HR circles. Companies are recognizing the productivity benefits of flex time, childcare assistance, on-site stress...