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A Practical Solution for Implementing New DDTC Training Guidelines

This white paper outlines a practical approach to meeting DDTC’s updated ITAR training.

The Skill Dynamics Framework

This white paper outlines the Skill Dynamics Framework - a role-specific eLearning approach that builds measurable capability and drives real-world performance.

Skills Report 2025

What are the biggest challenges facing supply chain and procurement right now? Download the report to discover how a lack of the right skills is preventing teams from excelling.

Achieving the promise of Industry 4.0

As digital transformation continues to reshape industries, supply chain, and procurement teams are feeling the pressure to compete in the race to Industry 4.0.

Sustainability: it’s time for action!

Getting sustainability right and delivering meaningful results requires a shift in mindset – and that change needs to be driven by senior leaders. But nearly 60% of leaders won’t approve sustainability initiatives without a clear ROI, so what can supply chain and procurement professionals do to help move things along?

Breaking the skills loss cycle in supply chain and procurement

Skills shortages trouble significant numbers of supply chain and procurement organizations, with many struggling to recruit employees who possess critical skills. Frequently, and worryingly, those skills shortages stem from skilled employees that they did have in their teams walking out of the door, never to return.

Sustainability imperative: an agenda for change

In our latest in-depth report written in conjunction with our Executive Strategic Advisor, Professor Omera Khan, we make a call for business leaders to remove roadblocks that are preventing sustainability initiatives from fulfilling their potential.

Sourcing for Resilience

Supply chains are now increasingly vulnerable to disruption so procurement practices need to change. Procurement teams must source for resilience, not lowest cost. To achieve this, businesses need a different mindset and different skills to transform how they think about sourcing and supply chains.

How-to guide: step your supply chain up a gear

In this short how-to guide, we make a call for procurement functions to pursue a different strategy: source for resilience, rather than lowest cost. To achieve this, businesses need to think differently about sourcing and supply chains, which calls for a different mindset, and different skills.

Supply Chain Skills for the Future

Those of us working in supply chain management have no choice: engaging with that future as it unfolds is mandatory. And despite the fact that supply chains have changed enormously over the past 25 years, some predict that the scale of change in the next 25 years will be even greater, as emerging technologies and new imperatives re-write the rules of the art of the possible.

The Future of Retail

In little over a decade, the retail landscape has changed out of all recognition. The shift to online retailing, for instance. The rise of omnichannel. The demise of department stores. The shrinking High Street, and the move to edge-of-town retail parks. Growing consumer demand for same-day home deliveries. The impact on retail supply chains has been just as great, with both retailers and their suppliers under pressure to develop innovative new capabilities.

Digital Supply Chain

End-to-end digitized supply chains will one day exist. It has taken generations, but information flow along supply chains is now faster—and richer than ever before. What was unthinkable even a few years ago is now commonplace.

Route to Zero Carbon

This whitepaper focuses on the central role of supply chain organizations in climate change and the rise of the issue due to emissions of CO2 as a result of their business operations and what motivates them to deal with it to reduce their impact effectively.