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Essential reading from leading researchers and scholars on the latest trends and topics relevant to global supply chain management.
What’s Next for Procurement? Five Priorities from UT’s Research
Wrapping our series on future-ready procurement capabilities and best practices, here are five priority areas for procurement leaders, including developing a customer-centric approach, investing in talent development, and leveraging technology.
From Global Leader to Industry Connector: Meet Scott DeGroot, GSCI’s New Managing Director
After four decades at the highest levels of global supply chain management, former Kimberly-Clark executive Scott DeGroot steps into a new role as managing director of the UT Global Supply Chain Institute. In this wide-ranging Q&A, he reflects on leadership, the future of the discipline, and why giving back drives him today.
Identifying Major Opportunity Areas for Procurement
Organizational design, knowledge sharing, indirect spend, ESG, and redefining risk are five areas for procurement to drive outcomes for customers, suppliers, and shareholders.
Securing Critical Minerals During a Global Trade War
UT supply chain management department head John Bell and top student Karli Reed provide a deeper look into the mining, geopolitical, and ESG risks surrounding lithium. They also discuss four ways to secure a competitive (and physical) advantage in critical mineral supply.
Analyzing Today’s Procurement Landscape
Despite a rapidly changing business environment, procurement teams are locked in organizational silos, struggling to demonstrate their potential to add value. In this series, Dan Pellathy explores how procurement can be transformed to guarantee future business success.
MS in Supply Chain Management Course Highlights: Exploring Distribution, Logistics, and Networks
Explore UT's MS in Supply Chain Management program, including key courses, skills learned, and potential career paths for future supply chain leaders.
UT Supply Chain Management in Top Three for Empirical Research Nationwide
This marks the 11th straight year UT's department has placed in the top five of The SCM Journal List annual research ranking.
Everything You Need to Know from the Spring 2025 Supply Chain Forum
From April 8–10, the Global Supply Chain Institute and the Department of Supply Chain Management welcomed hundreds of business professionals, industry leaders, and top students to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville for learning, networking, and recruiting opportunities.
Economics Expert Marianne Wanamaker Talks Tariffs, Labor at UT Supply Chain Forum
An authority on economic policy, labor markets, and workforce development, Marianne Wanamaker served as the chief domestic economist and senior labor economist on the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the first Trump administration. At the Spring 2025 Supply Chain Forum, she provided a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse into economic policymaking at the highest levels of U.S. government.
UT Alums Share Successful Onboarding Experiences at Supply Chain Forum
With graduates from UT's supply chain management programs in high demand, companies must do what they need to attract and retain these talented professionals. Fittingly, a panel of recent graduates at partner companies Clayton Homes, Kimberly-Clark, Procter & Gamble, and ExxonMobil, joined Cole Burns for an in-depth discussion about onboarding young alumni at the Spring 2025 Supply Chain Forum.