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There have been rumblings that the procurement function is "taking over" supply chain management. That kind of thinking is shaky on its best day and destructive in the long run. Here's why.
Challenges ranging from labor shortages to fuel price volatility could create kinks in global supply chains in the coming year. And these are just the threats we're aware of.
It is OK to celebrate improvement, new applications for old tools, and the march of progress. But let's save the proclamations and euphoria for those few genuine breakthroughs.
Those who succeed in supply chain management tend to have an element of fierceness that helps separate them from the competent, the passionate, and the passionately capable.
A recent Wall Street Journal feature reminded us that there may be little new under the sun, but that there is plenty of history being newly discovered.
As the shortage of truck drivers and order pickers makes clear, we've stumbled in our work-force development efforts. So what makes us think we'll do a better job training people to design, test, and fix delivery drones?