by Janice Marquardt | Apr 23, 2024 | Creative Solutions, Supply Chain Career
Before I went to Dubai on a business trip last week, I went hunting for a “woman professional’s guide to Dubai” and turned up short. So after networking with a friend of a friend who had been to Dubai before the pandemic and gathering my own data, I decided to write...
by Janice Marquardt | Apr 22, 2024 | Creative Solutions, Processes
Many supply chain teams have supplier diversity initiatives, targets, and goals. These are typically not even new programs, as many of them have been on the agenda for ten, thirty, or even fifty years. They have survived multiple supply chain leaders, multiple CEOs,...
by Janice Marquardt | Apr 9, 2024 | Processes, Savings
Sometimes in the supply chain we need quick wins. One potential source of a quick win is in paying sales taxes on shipments. While this may seem to be the responsibility of the tax department, how the supply chain structures agreements and invoices has a big impact on...
by Janice Marquardt | Apr 2, 2024 | Creative Solutions, Processes
The award for “most eye-catching headline of the week” in my news feed goes to sponsored content from GS1. The headline was “Stop doom-scrolling your supply chain” and (as sponsored content) is advocating for increasing visibility tools. The article cites three main...
by Janice Marquardt | Mar 27, 2024 | Creative Solutions, Definitions, Processes, Supply Chain Career
A Visual Capitalist article on the impact of artificial intelligence on various job categories wandered across my news feed a couple weeks ago, and I’ve been pondering it ever since. Following the data trail, this data was a visualization of a white paper by the World...
