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This guest post was written by Supply Chain executive Paul Rea. Paul is a senior supply chain leader with over 20 years of experience in industrial chemical and consumer product environments. He is the previous Co-Chair of the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada...

Romaine lettuce: it’s the thick-ribbed backbone of many good salads. The crunch in your burger. It’s pretty much the most run-of-the-mill leafy green you can imagine. Now, over the past few weeks it’s been having a moment with widespread reports of E Coli...

Written by Supply Chain Executive Mike Mortson. This guest post first appeared on Mike’s industry blog, Supply Chain Game Changer. Everywhere you turn there is talk of a lot of very exciting technologies.  The Internet of Things (IoT), Augmented Reality (AR), Drones...

Sometimes, on the Argentus Blog, we deviate slightly from our bailiwick of talent management in Supply Chain to cover other workplace culture topics. We’ve written recently about work from home policies, salary transparency, and even the question of whether companies...

Written by guest contributor Megan Ray Nichols, a freelance stem writer and the editor of Schooled By Science. For more from Megan, you can follow her on Twitter or subscribe to her blog here.  Managing a warehouse requires attention to enough matters already without...

The latest hiring advice from Canada’s leading recruiters in Supply Chain Management and Procurement. The enthusiasm of a hiring manager is one of the most important things  in the hiring process. Just as other business initiatives often rely on an enthusiastic...

Written by Elizabeth Hines. This guest post comes from Fronetics, a boutique marketing firm focused on the Supply Chain and Logistics industries. Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way the global supply chain operates and may make most supply chain...

People are pretty obsessed with salaries. For one thing, salary surveys are some of our most popular posts on the Argentus blog. They’re also the biggest motivating factor for when job candidates strike out into the wilds to pursue new roles. Salaries are the chief...

Guest contribution by Jill Button. Jill is a Strategic Sourcing executive with almost three decades of experience in Supply Chain and Strategic Sourcing and has worked for global and national organizations in hi-tech, telecom, banking, financial services and...