The Argentus Blog

This guest post comes from Fronetics, a boutique marketing firm focused on the Supply Chain and Logistics industries. Written by Katie Vazeos.  In a recent study, MIT found that companies that focus on 5 key initiatives to improve their supply chain analytics can have...

Resumes are hard. Always have been, always will be. It’s hard to write and talk about yourself. It’s even harder to boil years – or even decades – of experience and accomplishments into a few short pages of text and visuals. You’re probably more focused on your job...

Whether you’re actively looking for a new job and thinking about reaching out to a recruiter, or you’re a “passive” candidate who’s been approached by a recruiter with new opportunities, there are certain strategies and expectations that will help set you up for...

This Guest Post comes from TradeMachines.      The logistics industry is worth over $8.1 trillion. Not only it is an incomprehensibly big market, there are countless factors shaping it. Globalization introduced a new level of complexity. International...

Over the years that we’ve been writing the Argentus blog, we’ve had the opportunity to interview a number of inspiring and accomplished leaders from within the fields of Procurement, Supply Chain Management, and Logistics. It’s always a great chance for us to talk...

Written by Dr. Madhav Durbha. This guest post first appeared on Kinaxis' industry blog, The 21st Century Supply Chain.  These days, not a single supply chain conference I attend goes by without someone mentioning Blockchain. Given the growing chatter, I wanted to...

As part of our efforts to chronicle the ways the workplace is changing, we recently wrote about how more companies are adopting formal work from home policies. More organizations realizing that these policies – and other alternative working arrangements – can help...

Last week, we wrote about APICS’ survey of millennials in the Supply Chain industry. We delved into some of the survey’s insights about the way the field is changing, and the way that millennials’ Supply Chain careers are taking flight. Some of the most interesting...