Procurement is changing all the time, with new strategies emerging from big data, and new tools making the more “clerical” aspects of the profession a thing of the past. We’ve written a lot about how to advance your Procurement career, advice that we think is still relevant today. But...

It’s actually about Whole Foods’ distribution system. Big news out of the grocery retail world as Amazon has announced its acquisition of major organic foods retailer Whole Foods Market – for an eye-popping $13.7 billion sale price that doesn’t look so massive given Amazon’s $136 billion sales volume in 2016....

Written by Alexa Cheater. This guest post first appeared on Kinaxis’ industry blog, The 21st Century Supply Chain. If there’s one thing you can count on in supply chain, it’s that things will change. Often. It could be as relatively small as a last minute order or engineering change, or...

    Back in November, we wrote about some proposed changes to Canada’s immigration policy that might have big implications for the Supply Chain industry in the great white north. In short, the government announced an increase in overall immigration levels, as well as a renewed focus on attracting high-skilled...

Written by Supply Chain Executive Mike Mortson. This guest post first appeared on Mike’s industry blog, Supply Chain Game Changer.  A strong political sentiment these days seems to be more about protecting one’s own national territory and interests rather than those of the Global community. Yet we have for a long...

Three tips to keep your resume from sinking into the void.     There’s a term in show business called “movie jail.” It’s when filmmaker ends up in a strange kind of limbo where, due to past results or unforeseen circumstances, they’re unable to make successful pitches for new projects...

We were thrilled to hear, yesterday, that the blog aggregation website Feedspot has included Argentus as part of its new list of the Top 75 Supply Chain Blogs on the web. Feedspot’s list highlights the most interesting and insightful Supply Chain-related blogs, and we’re in excellent company with some of...

    One of the hottest topics in business, but also in the world, right now, is the emergence of Artificial Intelligence and what that will mean for various sectors of the economy. Just as automation has disrupted the manufacturing industry over the past several decades, advances in AI pose...

  Big headlines coming out of Queen’s Park: the Government of Ontario announced that the province will be increasing the minimum wage to $15 by 2019. The news set off a flurry of responses and debates, with many arguing the change is long overdue and some suggesting that a rapid increase...