Supply Chain Blog
On October 2, the chief operating officer of the world’s largest sportswear company told employees that Nike is walking away from owning a large part of its own fulfillment and distribution network, something it has…
A fully laden crude supertanker, longer than the Chrysler Building is tall and as wide as an American football field, arrived off the Texas coast with its communications dead. Investigators also found evidence that outsiders…
Thomas Carlyle wrote, “Man is a Tool-using Animal. Weak in himself, and of small stature… without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.” The sentence appears in Sartor Resartus, published in 1831, where…
The most expensive moment in many supply chains is not the moment an exception is discovered. It is the quiet hour after discovery, when a warning waits for a person to open a case, understand…
A planning department can have six people, six inboxes, and still have nobody clearly responsible when a small component stops a factory. One general purpose assistant holding demand, supply, freight, supplier risk, and master data…
The paint was ready. The factories were ready. Cars still could not leave the line: a glittering pigment had disappeared. A few cents of components, made in one country. Your biggest supply risk may hide…
A shipment can be physically close to a warehouse and still be financially invisible. The carton has left the supplier, the carrier has scanned it, and the receiving team has not yet made it available…
The strangest part of the Red Sea crisis is not that ships are returning to Suez. It is that some are returning while the security risk is still hanging over the route. The planning rule…
A seagull does not fly with one wing shape. It changes the shape as it takes off, turns, cruises, and lands. The bird is not being inefficient. It is matching its configuration to the conditions…