Today we offer a guest post by Greg Uhrlen of the Next Level Purchasing Association, a U.S.-based Procurement Certification group. Recently, Bronwen wrote a blog posted titled, “Take a chance on me.” – Hire Talent and Train some Skills for a Change. Immediately, it...
Utilising a Strategic combination of Direct Hire and Contingent Staffing can Satisfy critical Talent Shortages in Supply Chain As companies find themselves increasingly with their backs against the wall in the Supply Chain space - more Baby Boomers retiring and not...
We have quality QUALITY ASSURANCE leaders Similar to our Market Intelligence post of last week about demand for Planning staff primarily in CPG, we wanted to highlight another area that’s seeing quite a bit of activity in Argentus’ recruitment practice: Quality...
We have been hearing a lot from our network recently about the growing demand for talent in procurement. Naturally this demand leads to a rise in salaries for people in procurement positions. Following a great article from Supply Chain 24/7, the Purchasing and Supply...
But it’s a candidate’s market, and companies are losing out at the offer stage Here’s some midweek market intelligence. In the past few months, we’ve noticed a distinct uptick in Consumer Goods (CPG) companies tapping our network for Planning professionals,...
We found a really interesting piece of market intelligence this week from Forbes writer Clare O’Connor. She goes very in depth into Amazon’s newest efforts to tap into the massive Wholesale market, through a new venture called AmazonSupply. We wanted to pass this...
Here's Argentus' salary drilldown for this week. On the last installment, we provided salary bands for Supply Chain Directors in Toronto and Calgary. While we haven't finished with salary info for Supply Chain and plan to offer info at the more junior level as well,...
Does Supply Chain’s image need to catch up with the times? We all know the Supply Chain field and all the great functions within it (Logistics, Procurement, Distribution, Operations, Manufacturing, Planning, etc.) are in high demand within companies, and we also know...
Supply Chain Salary Breakdowns: by Gender Recently we have been writing a series of posts surrounding the gender gap in Supply Chain as well as salary bands within Supply Chain. We have seen lots of good discussions in our specific Supply Chain network (we are after...