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Home » Authors » Kate Vitasek

Kate Vitasek

Kate Vitasek is a faculty member for Graduate and Executive Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's Haslam College of Business Administration.
kvitasek@utk.edu
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Q4 2020 Vested
TECHNOLOGY

The 3PL industry: time to reset

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the status quo in the third-party logistics (3PL) sector. But traditional, transactional contracts are keeping providers and their clients from investing the time and energy needed to innovate and evolve. The time has come to rewrite the rules.
December 11, 2020
Gerald Perritt, Elijah Ray, and Kate Vitasek
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the status quo in the third-party logistics (3PL) sector. But traditional, transactional contracts are keeping providers and their clients from investing the time and energy needed to innovate and evolve. The time has come to rewrite the rules.
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Map your way to an effective sourcing strategy

December 13, 2016
Kate Vitasek
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This business-process mapping technique, designed specifically for procurement, can help you identify which relational and economic sourcing models are right for your company.
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A hard look at the soft side of performance

December 16, 2011
Kate Vitasek and Tracy Maylett, Ed.D.
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Supply chain scorecards typically focus on operational metrics. But if companies want to capture a true picture of supply chain success, they need to measure employees' interpersonal performance, too.
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How to write a Vested Outsourcing contract

June 25, 2010
Kate Vitasek, Mike Ledyard, and Karl Manrodt
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In this excerpt from the book Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing, the authors explain how to write contracts that allow an outsourcing partner to profit in exchange for achieving the desired performance outcome.
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Time to remodel

September 22, 2008
Kate Vitasek, Christopher R. Moberg, Theodore P. Stank, and Abré PIenaar
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The supply chain profession needs a more comprehensive model for measuring the effectiveness of both internal and external supply chain management. Current models don't quite do the job, the authors contend.
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Inspire your suppliers

October 1, 2007
Kate Vitasek and S. Mark Jones
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Want your suppliers to rally around your corporate goals? Scorecarding can help you shift their focus from the tactical to the strategic.
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