June, 2017 | Argentus

Director Procurement ( Indirect/consumables) Bilingual

June 30, 2017 / Leave a comment

PRIMARY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY Category Management and Sourcing for the consumables category. Building catalogue content as applicable for the Procure to Pay (P2P) software. Negotiating contracts for the consumables category. Accountable for providing forecasts and guidance on price changes for consumables. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Source assigned categories and development of...
Procurement Manager – Services Category

June 30, 2017 / Leave a comment

Industry: Insurance One of our long time clients has once again approached us to work on a new and exciting role! They are a multinational organization with Canadian headquarters in Markham and operations the world over. Seen as a coveted employer, they have come to us...
IT Category Manager Roles Galore! – Financial Services, Toronto (Infographic)

June 30, 2017 / Leave a comment

Check out our Infographic job description outlining the range of roles available! Industry: Financial Services Argentus is currently searching for IT Category Managers for one of our clients in the financial services industry. They are a well known, well respected financial services firm with international operations and an unparalleled reputation...
How to Be a Better Procurement Boss

June 28, 2017 / Leave a comment

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...
What are the Supply Chain Impacts of Amazon’s Whole Foods Acquisition?

June 26, 2017 / Leave a comment

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....
Four Unstoppable Forces That Will Change Your End-to-End Supply Chain

June 21, 2017 / Leave a comment

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...
New Visa Program Invites More High-Skilled Foreign Workers to Canada

June 20, 2017 / 1 Comment

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...
What are the Supply Chain Impacts of an Increasingly Protectionist World?

June 15, 2017 / Leave a comment

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...
How to Avoid “Resume Jail”

June 13, 2017 / Leave a comment

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...
Argentus Named One of the Top 75 Supply Chain Blogs on the Web

June 8, 2017 / Leave a comment

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...