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...
by Janice Marquardt | May 28, 2024 | Definitions, Processes, Supply Chain Career
What is the difference between “supply chain” and “procurement”? One of my favorite silver linings after COVID is that when people ask me what I do, I now answer “Supply chain” and they reply, “You’re the people who get us toilet paper!” Or sometimes I can see them...
by Janice Marquardt | May 21, 2024 | Creative Solutions, Definitions, Supply Chain Career
Continuing our conversation from last week, let’s talk about some of the less common spots a supply chain team can fit into an org chart. Last week we looked at having the supply chain leader report to the CEO, CFO, COO, CRO, and CAO. This week, let’s look at the...
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...
