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This video explains supply chain management basics, essential tips, and key traits.
Discover critical qualities for hiring and receive expert advice customized for your career. Don’t wait—watch now to enhance your supply chain management skills!
Career Tips from Supply Chain Expert Alma Arzate
One of the most popular topics on this channel is career tips, and we’ve got some more coming up this week with a special guest, Alma Arzate. Alma, welcome! It’s so great to have you with us this week. You have a very illustrious supply chain career, don’t you? Let me see if I can get this right: you’re from Mexico originally, now living in Canada, you’ve worked with a whole bunch of different supply chain companies, and you’re currently with Apotex in the pharmaceutical industry. Is that right?
Alma’s Journey in Supply Chain
Alma confirmed, adding that she holds a very senior director position in supply chain. We’re hoping to get some tips from her on supply chain careers this week. Alma is deeply focused on mentoring people in her organization and the broader industry. If you had some tips for people getting into supply chain and those who are in supply chain progressing their careers, what would those be?
Alma graciously thanked us for the invitation and the audience for their time. She emphasized the importance of defining supply chain management, as it can be confusing until you realize its daily impact on our lives. She explained that supply chain is the interconnected network of activities creating and distributing value-added products and services to end consumers.
Key Traits for a Successful Supply Chain Career
Alma stressed the importance of supply chain certifications in supply chain careers. Certifications like CPM, CPIM, and CSCP from the Association of Supply Chain Management (ASM) can help individuals take on more advanced roles. She mentioned that career choices within supply chain are widespread, and skills learned are highly transferable across various industries.
Alma highlighted several key traits for success in a supply chain career:
- Resiliency: The ability to bounce back from challenges.
- Initiative: Taking charge and seeking out responsibilities.
- Drive for Results: A high sense of urgency and perseverance.
- Collaboration: Building strong, mutually beneficial relationships.
- Continuous Improvement: Always seeking ways to improve processes and systems.
Find out Alma’s 1 key tip and more insights by watching the video above.
You can connect and follow Alma on LinkedIn. Here’s the linked: https://www.linkedin.com/in/almaarzate/
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