Feb. 2 - Scouting for supply chain talent

Ryder and the Girl Scouts of Tropical Florida teamed up to create a supply chain patch to inspire girls to be the supply chain leaders of the future. View online | Sign up | Forward

Weekly edition | Feb.​ 2,​ 2021 Your Guide to Operations By Shefali Kapadia   BROUGHT TO YOU BY — Alloy How Ferrero made back 7X its investment VP Supply Chain on combining real-time data from distributors and retailers to pinpoint where there's too much (or too little) inventory — and more. See how.   Ryder and the Girl Scouts of Tropical Florida teamed up to create a supply chain patch to inspire girls to be the supply chain leaders of the future. (Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here.) Scouting for supply chain talent The Thin Mints we ordered online this year didn't appear out of, well, thin air. Like all products, there's a supply chain behind them, from sourcing cookie ingredients, to packaging the treats, to last-mile delivery. And some of the Girl Scouts selling the cookies are learning all about it. The girls are part of a program that introduces them to the supply chain field, with the goal of sparking interest at an early age.  Will the Brownies be the next chief supply chain officers? Read about it here. Stat of the week Talent on the rise during peak Supply chain talent — young and mature, female and male, manager and worker — is needed more than ever as e-commerce growth continues. Warehouse hiring reached 1.29 million in December, as shown in the chart below. Dive deeper. Credit: Matt Leonard / Supply Chain Dive / data from Bureau of Labor Statistics Walmart brings automated fulfillment to stores The retailer started testing automated micro-fulfillment in 2019 at a store in New Hampshire. It used a robotic system to store and retrieve products, while humans assembled the orders. Now Walmart is testing micro-fulfillment at dozens of stores with multiple tech providers. Details here. 3M boosts N95 production ... … to an annual run rate of 2.5 billion. The manufacturer has been increasing production since January 2020 by activating surge capacity from the SARS outbreak in the early 2000s and prioritizing the most critical SKUs. 3M is tapping into its new operating model that puts manufacturing, supply chain and customer ops under one umbrella — and using real-time data to shorten cycle times. Read more. Opinion Poll             How have your cycle times changed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic? They are longer They are shorter They are about the same It varies by SKU Other — hit reply and tell us! Have a poll question you’d like to suggest? Let us know!   Last week's results are in! We asked: Which personal protective equipment item has been most challenging for you to obtain for your workers? 30% of you said (A) N95 masks; 25% said (B) Gloves; 13% said (C) Face shields; 22% said (D) We haven't faced any challenges getting PPE; and 10% said (E) Other.                                                 Quick Hits Fast Company A new site is compiling food waste data and food waste solutions. Food Dive Congress requests documents on coronavirus infections and deaths at Tyson Foods' and Smithfield Foods' facilities. Material Handling and Logistics Hiring for DC and warehouses have probably changed for good, since organizations have accelerated their adoption of technology and digitization during the pandemic. Harvard Business Review Should you rehire an employee who left your company? HR Dive DOL announced Friday "the immediate end" of its Payroll Audit Independent Determination Program that allowed employers to self-report Fair Labor Standards Act violations to the agency. Parting thought 'Tis the earnings season. UPS reported this morning, Amazon reports shortly, and several retailers and CPG brands are relaying their quarterly results to analysts. "Performance" often comes up on earnings calls, and sometimes it's a direct link to sales or margins. But performance can be an abstract concept, too — one built upon a stack of key performance indicators and measured relative to current conditions. As Mondelez's CEO put it: "We had our supply chain perform really well, but there is still room for improvement, because it was good in the times of COVID. It was not as good compared to normal time." Shefali Kapadia Senior Editor, Supply Chain Dive Twitter | Email

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