REFLECTIONS
Uncle Sam wants you … to have a resilient supply chain
President Biden’s recent executive order seeks to revitalize U.S. supply chains and reverse a decades-long trend of offshoring.
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Steve Geary
Steve Geary is adjunct faculty at the University of Tennessee's Haaslam College of Business and is a lecturer at The Gordon Institute at Tufts University. He is the president of the Supply Chain Visions family of companies, consultancies that work across the government sector. Steve is a contributing editor at DC Velocity, and editor-at-large for CSCMP's Supply Chain Quarterly.
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STRATEGY
Making the pivot
The pandemic has posed particularly big challenges for small businesses, which do not have the same resources, sophistication, or clout as their larger counterparts. But what small businesses lack in scale, they can make up for in supply chain agility.
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REFLECTIONS
Occam’s Razor and the vaccine
The United States is about two months into the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine. Execution approaches vary. Which approach works best?
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REFLECTIONS
The COVID call to action
The pandemic is forcing many of us to reassess and readjust our supply chains. As we do so, we need to focus on “best value” instead of “lowest cost.”
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REFLECTIONS
Huawei’s ripple effect
The Trump Administration’s tangles with the Chinese tech giant will have repercussions for many supply chains. Companies should start planning accordingly.
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The idea is that the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in Argentina could cause a tornado in Texas three weeks later.
Butterflies are pretty, but they are hell on a supply chain.
The idea is that the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in Argentina could cause a tornado in Texas three weeks later.
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What's in a name?
We talk about compressing Supply Chains and channel strategies. Farmers talk about Community Supported Agriculture. Are they the same thing?
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Reflections
Coronavirus and the tunnel vision of macroeconomics
No matter how you define relevant, in the supply chain all relevant things never remain unchanged. We live in a dynamic world, and there are always surprises in the supply chain.
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Watch for the stampede. It’s coming.
Lots of legislators are kicking around statutory responses to the coronavirus right now, but our community is not waiting.