The headline “Everywhere You Look, the Global Supply Chain Is a Mess” in The Wall Street Journal in March succinctly captured the obstacle course, perhaps unprecedented in its degree of difficulty, that companies must navigate to get products from factories to customers.
Although the supply management profession is plagued by volatility and uncertainty, it’s also a time of opportunity, said Tom Linton, a retired chief procurement and supply chain officer at Flex, a San Jose, California-based supply chain solutions provider. “The shift is going to be non-stop, so I can’t think of a career that’s more interesting,” he said during “The State of Supply Chain,” an April webinar hosted by Resilinc, a Milpitas, California-based provider of supply chain risk-management research and analytics.
