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      Everyone knows that the battle for talent is fierce, especially in high-demand, niche employment areas like Procurement and Supply Chain. Companies are resorting to all kinds of employee attraction and retention strategies, including suing former...

  Procurement is changing all the time, with new strategies emerging from big data, and new tools making the more “clerical” aspects of the profession a thing of the past. We’ve written a lot about how to advance your Procurement career, advice that we think is...

It’s actually about Whole Foods’ distribution system. Big news out of the grocery retail world as Amazon has announced its acquisition of major organic foods retailer Whole Foods Market – for an eye-popping $13.7 billion sale price that doesn’t look so massive given...

Written by Alexa Cheater. This guest post first appeared on Kinaxis' industry blog, The 21st Century Supply Chain. If there’s one thing you can count on in supply chain, it’s that things will change. Often. It could be as relatively small as a last minute order or...

    Back in November, we wrote about some proposed changes to Canada’s immigration policy that might have big implications for the Supply Chain industry in the great white north. In short, the government announced an increase in overall immigration levels,...

Written by Supply Chain Executive Mike Mortson. This guest post first appeared on Mike's industry blog, Supply Chain Game Changer.  A strong political sentiment these days seems to be more about protecting one’s own national territory and interests rather than those...

Three tips to keep your resume from sinking into the void.     There’s a term in show business called “movie jail.” It’s when filmmaker ends up in a strange kind of limbo where, due to past results or unforeseen circumstances, they’re unable to make...

We were thrilled to hear, yesterday, that the blog aggregation website Feedspot has included Argentus as part of its new list of the Top 75 Supply Chain Blogs on the web. Feedspot’s list highlights the most interesting and insightful Supply Chain-related blogs, and...

    One of the hottest topics in business, but also in the world, right now, is the emergence of Artificial Intelligence and what that will mean for various sectors of the economy. Just as automation has disrupted the manufacturing industry over the past...