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Essential reading from leading researchers and scholars on the latest trends and topics relevant to global supply chain management.

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Haslam’s Advanced Supply Chain Collaborative Reports Positive Inaugural Year

September 24, 2020
Members of the Advanced Supply Chain Collaborative celebrated a rewarding first year in a recent Zoom meeting during which its initial year-end report was delivered.
Randy V. Bradley

Haslam Professor First Recipient of Healthcare Supply Chain Performance Award

August 28, 2020
Randy V. Bradley, professor of information systems and supply chain management in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Dean S. Ammer Award for Healthcare Supply Chain Performance Excellence.
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Can Supply Chain Integrity Predict Sustainability?

August 26, 2020
Led by values-driven millennial consumers, the market is putting considerable pressure on companies to be ethically responsible, part of the increasing focus on companies’ environmental, social and financial performance.
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Supply Chain Summer Workshop Provides Students Hands-on Experience in Lieu of Internships

August 14, 2020
The novel coronavirus’ impact on the U.S. economy has upended the business plans of many companies.
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Haslam Student Wins Richter Scholarship

August 14, 2020
The R. Gene and Nancy D. Richter Foundation and the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) have selected Spencer Strei, a supply chain management major with a collateral in international business and minor in statistics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business, to receive the 2020 R. Gene Richter Scholarship.
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Haslam Supply Chain Students Gain Real E-Procurement Experience in Class Project

August 12, 2020
Two professors in the Department of Supply Chain Management at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business recently created a semester-long gamified buyer-supplier project to give students experience dealing with the digital changes coming in supply chain management.
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UT Haslam’s Graduate Supply Chain Program Moves to Second in Gartner Rankings

July 14, 2020
The graduate supply chain program in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's Haslam College of Business is ranked second among programs in North America, according to a report from a leading industry research organization.
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Breaking the Chain: GPO Changes and Hospital Supply Cost Efficiency

July 10, 2020
Procuring, transporting and storing medical supplies and devices can account for up to 40 percent of a hospital’s total operating expenses.
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New Study Reveals Insights into the State of the Supply Chain Industry

June 29, 2020
With dire worldwide health threats, environmental upheavals, geopolitical tensions, delivery channel pressures and workforce demographic shifts, the supply chain faces its most dynamic period of change in modern times.
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Student Perspectives on the MS-SCM – Online

June 26, 2020
Students of Haslam’s Online MS-SCM discuss the standout features of the program.