by Janice Marquardt | May 14, 2024 | Definitions, Supply Chain Career
An experienced executive and mentor of mine once told me, “Every org chart fixes some problems and creates others.” I saw this happen firsthand when I was the leader of a 150-person team, with members from multiple businesses within a conglomerate company. The...
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 | 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...
by Janice Marquardt | Mar 19, 2024 | Benefits, Definitions, Processes, Supply Chain Career
“You can have it fast, you can have it good, you can have it cheap: pick two” is a very old phrase for any purchase, and is a central tenet of supply chain work. While in a previous supply chain leadership role, my company had a major shake-up in senior leadership. As...
by Janice Marquardt | Mar 12, 2024 | Definitions, Processes, Supply Chain Career
One of my clients had a communication problem. It wasn’t the usual “not enough” problem that so often comes up, it was an executive summary problem. The supply chain leader was doing beautiful, in-depth bid analyses with long spreadsheets and each supplier’s column in...
