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Supplier management and preparing your supply chain for the next recession is crucial to staying afloat when a market dip (or dive) occurs.

The idea of turning your supply chain to “reverse” in order to achieve additional cash flow is a new idea to many. But these kinds of reverse logistics, including remanufacturing, are seeing a bit of a renaissance today as companies everywhere look for new ways to stay solvent, competitive and nimble.

If we treated our employees the way most companies treat their suppliers, they’d head for the hills. 

In any company or industry that sells products, the cost of the raw materials and components is often the single largest expense.  Despite the magnitude of this cost however there is a wide range of focus put on managing this expenditure from proactive and strategic to reactive and tactical.

Anyone who’s followed the Procurement and Supply Chain industry knows that contingent staffing is taking off. Gone are the days when companies would hire on contract only for leave coverage and backlogs.

Here’s the case for hiring people from outside Procurement for highly strategic categories.

If you want to keep your customers satisfied, you need to keep things moving in your warehouse or distribution center. Use these tips to keep up the pace and make your facility as efficient as possible.

In 2019, Supply Chain Management is what makes or breaks a company. The New York Times’ Alexandra Alter recently reported that a bottleneck at printers has impacted book sales over the crucial holiday season. It puts a bit of a crunch on an industry that’s been on a roll this year following several years of anxiety.

To cap off 2018, we want to carry on something that’s become a bit of a tradition at Argentus: ending each year by highlighting some of our favourite posts.  It’s been quite a year – but when is that not the case, these days? North America saw continued strong...