Supply Chain Management Review

Coming to Grips with supplier Risk
Modern supply chains now run substantial risks of performance failures or shortfalls. And a big part of that risk equation relates to how well suppliers do (or fail to do) their job. This article relates the aggressive approaches smart supply chain managers are taking to better manage those supplier risks—and gives five steps you can take right now to join their ranks.

Supply Chain Software and Technology: The Status and the Future
Will sourcing come closer to home?
The Supply Chain Manager as Global Economist
The 2008 Global CPO Survey
How IBM Put Bratislava on the Supply Chain Map

Commentary Global Links A Case for Offshoring Procurement Outsourcing? Insights A “Flat” Future? Don't Bet on It Profiles in Leadership Consultant Turned Practitioner Robert Silverman Spotlight on Supply Management Buying in a Sellers' Market Technology Span of Control Key to Talent Development

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