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Feature Interview: Supply Chain Executive Caroline Lalonde Speaks about Cannabis Opportunities and Challenges
As we wrote about in our recent article, cannabis is a huge emerging market in Canada. With the recent half-decade of growth in the medicinal cannabis sector, as well as the pending legalization of recreational cannabis in October 2018, more entrepreneurs are getting...

McDonald’s is Switching to Fresh Burgers from Frozen – A Supply Chain Challenge
Back in early 2018, McDonald’s – a pioneer in cold chain distribution – announced that it was testing out using fresh patties instead of frozen in burgers at 300 of its U.S. locations. Which doesn’t sound like a huge deal, but for one of the world’s largest Supply...

Tips and Tricks for Warehouse Renovation
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. Renovating your warehouse is the best time to perfect the space for...

WSJ: In This Job Market, More Companies are Lowering Experience Requirements
On the Argentus blog, we’ve spent the past few months charting the strong job market and its effects on hiring. My, how things have changed. A few short years ago, publications were writing about how employers weren’t bothering to hire for their open positions. Now,...

Research: Open Plan Offices Might Be Hurting Employee Productivity
Open plan offices are meant to increase employee collaboration, but raise your hand if you’ve ever stepped into an open office that sounded as quiet as a morgue. It might not be news to anyone who’s worked in an open plan office, but some new research has arrived that...

What Exactly is Supply Chain Management? 10 Different Definitions
Written by Supply Chain Executive Mike Mortson. This guest post first appeared on Mike’s industry blog, Supply Chain Game Changer. When I began my career there was no such thing as “Supply Chain Management." Supply Chain was not a title to be found anywhere on any...

Companies are Often Quicker to Hire Leaders Than Junior Employees. Should They Be?
Here’s a common story in our recruitment practice here at Argentus: a client calls us asking for our help hiring a Director of Procurement. Later that week, a different client calls with a need for a Procurement Analyst. We reach out into our network, digging deep...

A Look at the U.S. Supply Chain Economy
This guest post comes from Fronetics, a boutique marketing firm focused on the Supply Chain and Logistics industries. Written by Elizabeth Hines. Most agree the supply chain is integral to our economy. But what, exactly, comprises the U.S. supply chain economy? Ask a...

Are we Facing the End of Supply Chain Management?
A new article in Harvard Business Review has been generating some automation-related controversy in the Supply Chain Community, as well as lots of buzz and interesting conversation. Naturally, we at Argentus want to weigh in. Titled, “The Death of Supply Chain...
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