Sue Doerfler

5 days ago | ismworld.org | Sue Doerfler

The ISM World 2025 theme of “Sparking Genius” has shone brightly at the Innovation Park, the exhibitor trade show featuring vendors, a technology hub, presentations by supply management startups and more. The Innovation Park features companies with solutions pertaining to risk and environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards, technology and innovation, and logistics and delivery as well as minority-owned businesses and startups offering a variety of innovations.

5 days ago | ismworld.org | Sue Doerfler

Craig Reed, CPSM, vice president, global procurement and CPO at Thermo Fisher Scientific, is the 2025 recipient of the J. Shipman Gold Medal Award, presented by Institute for Supply Management® for career achievement. (Yannick Apers Photography)A packed room of talent — practitioners, executives and students — celebrated the supply management profession on Monday night at the ISM Awards Gala.

6 days ago | ismworld.org | Dan Zeiger |Sue Doerfler

Attendees at the R. Gene Richter Scholarship luncheon raise their glasses to toast the members of this year’s class at ISM World 2025 in Orlando, Florida, on Monday (Yannick Apers Photgraphy)For budding supply management students to seasoned and accomplished veterans, one of the most treasured events at an Institute for Supply Management Annual Conference is the luncheon honoring the R. Gene Richter Scholarship winners.

1 week ago | ismworld.org | Dan Zeiger |Sue Doerfler

Having completed their shift in the ballroom at the Rosen Single Creek resort on Sunday, the team from Fortive Corporation made sure to pose for a picture in front of their handiwork. The five employees of the industrial technology company typically work on projects more complex than the pink playhouse behind them, but they nonetheless were satisfied in a job well done during the Team Charity Challenge at ISM World 2025, Institute for Supply Management®’s (ISM®) Annual Conference.

1 week ago | ismworld.org | Sue Doerfler

Move over, resilience: Plasticity may well be the new buzzword supply management organizations need to concentrate on to have healthy supply chains amid tariffs and economic uncertainty. According to researchers at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Texas Christian University (TCU), plasticity is the ability to respond ahead of unknown threats.