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Welcome Day Panel: Inflation Impacts on Procurement and Sourcing
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Welcome Day Panel: Inflation Impacts on Procurement and Sourcing

How are organizations of different sizes and footprints dealing with the impacts of inflation on their procurement operations?
Taking lessons learned from past economic downcycles and applying them to today’s business landscape
Sharing the pain points and easing burdens: The power of rebalancing long-standing business relationships have fallen out of equity to strike new mutually beneficial arrangements
Exploring lean methodology and other solutions that can reduce costs and do more with less in difficult times

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Danielle Hansen of JBT: Risk Mitigation in Sourcing, and Advice for Tomorrow’s Supply Chain Top Talent
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Danielle Hansen of JBT: Risk Mitigation in Sourcing, and Advice for Tomorrow’s Supply Chain Top Talent

At the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Danielle Hansen, a vice president with JBT and adjunct professor at the university of St. Thomas, to speak about a wide range of issues, ideas, challenges, and opportunities facing supply chain leaders today, and also how the next generation of supply chain workers and leaders will be a huge part of addressing ever item we discussed and more.

Beginning with her own work on risk management in sourcing and procurement, and then expanding outwards along touch points relevant to her experience as a lecturer, teacher, and industry expert on contract negotiations, and then speaking to the big picture ideas of who the next generation of supply chain leaders will be, where they are coming from, and how we can support them to grow into the key people businesses will need them to be, this is a terrific conversation about what matters to supply chain executives now and for many years still to come. Give it a listen!

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Welcome Day Panel: Supporting the Women Who Make Our Supply Chain Organizations Work
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Welcome Day Panel: Supporting the Women Who Make Our Supply Chain Organizations Work

At NASCES23 we recorded a panel on supporting the women who make supply chain organizations work.

Give this a listen to hear supply chain leaders discussing, debating, comparing, and contrasting options in the New Normal of Work when we talk about supporting working caregivers, employee mental health programs, work-life balance, flexibility and moving away from one-size-fits-all thinking,
maternity leave, post-maternity leave reintegration, and more.

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