by Janice Marquardt | Sep 17, 2024 | Contracts, Processes
Disclaimer: I am not an attorney and cannot give legal advice. This series is from a supply chain practitioner’s perspective on negotiating contracts and is simply offering my perspective on common contract clauses. Seek professional legal advice for your own...
by Janice Marquardt | Aug 27, 2024 | Processes, Supply Chain Career
As a supply chain professional, it’s incredibly easy to fall into the “they vs. we” trap. “They” are the internal customer, the engineer, the end user, the operations team. “We” are the procurement, supply chain, or logistics team. While there are many ways to start...
by Janice Marquardt | Aug 20, 2024 | Definitions, Processes, Savings
I first encountered Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs) and bonded warehouses while working for a manufacturer who was getting many components out of China. Before that point, most of my employers were getting the majority of their shipments domestically, either from US...
by Janice Marquardt | Aug 13, 2024 | Creative Solutions, Processes
The hot topic in supply chain for the last few years has been supply chain disruption. Supply Chain Brain’s annual supplier partnership publication is themed around disruption, everyone working anywhere in supply chain in 2021 remembers what working through disruption...
by Janice Marquardt | Jul 16, 2024 | Definitions, Processes, Savings
One of the best tools to share price risks between buyers and suppliers is index-linked pricing. Most procurement professionals have heard of and used commodity indices to tie pricing to the wider market, but in short they are a third-party tracking tool for commodity...
by Janice Marquardt | Jun 3, 2024 | Org Chart, Processes, Supply Chain Career
Recently we’ve been talking about which C-suite role a supply chain team reports to, both the more common executive leaders and the less common ones. So today we’re going to talk a bit about the structure of a supply chain team in an organization. In particular, we’ll...
