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Written by Kirsten Watson. This post originally appeared on the Kinaxis industry blog, The 21st-Century Supply Chain.  These days it seems you can’t spend ten minutes surfing the internet without seeing an article about millennials. Heck, we’ve even written about the...

We wanted to take a moment to share this great article we saw last week and discuss its brilliant distillation of job interviews – on both the company and applicant side – into a simple formula for success. The post appeared on the World Economic Forum’s “Agenda”...

It's fairly well-understood at this point that online job postings aren’t the best way to secure a new job. In our recent post examining how you can take charge and have an active-rather-than-passive approach to your job search, we discussed a few of the big...

A few weeks ago, we wrote about some interesting initiatives to get young people interested in the Supply Chain discipline. In that post, we mentioned SCNext, which is a networking and job training group for young Supply Chain professionals with a unique international...

Mercedes Benz' prototype of its self-driving Future Truck 2025. From discussing 3D printing to workplace automation, we at Argentus are always trying to stay on top of technological developments that will impact Supply Chain and its related disciplines. Because Supply...

Building on the popularity of our recent post explaining the difference between a Buyer and a Category Manager, we decided to tackle another common talent-related question in Procurement, one of Argentus’ areas of specialty: Why is some category expertise...

At Argentus, we’re always pleased to talk about current issues in Supply Chain with industry experts and thought leaders. In July, Argentus President Bronwen Hann was interviewed about the state of the talent market, particularly the issue of the so-called “Supply...

Written by Alexa Cheater. This post originally appeared on the Kinaxis industry blog, The 21st-Century Supply Chain.  I used to think slavery was, for the most part, a thing of the past. An abhorrent practice that was abolished for very good reason, and a constant...

Anyone who’s been paying attention knows that Supply Chain Management has emerged from its status a back-office function to become a major strategic differentiator for business. Over the past few decades, companies have realized that the way they bring products to...