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Jul 11, 2025

On-going Confusion in Global Supply Chains

The current world stage is in a state of complete confusion as to how global trade and supply chains will continue to be shaped. The July 9 tariffs were pushed…

May 29, 2025

What’s Next in the Trade Wars? A Court Decision..

This morning’s NYTimes announced a decision by a court that is throwing another sudden question around the tariff question…”On Wednesday, the Court of International Trade, the primary federal legal body…

May 23, 2025

The Domino Effect of Global Tariffs on the Supply Chain

The announcement of tariffs on “Liberation Day” has created a cascading set of outcomes for global supply chains. The first impact was that every US-based company has essentially gone into…

May 20, 2025

Current issues facing supply chain managers in an era of uncertainty

I was recently asked about a few questions related to how managers should be navigating the waters around the tariff uncertainty, AI, contracting, and a host of other issues. Here…

Apr 30, 2025

What areas of SCM are best suited for the application of AI?

Many of the managers I speak with are buying into the application of artificial intelligence in the workplace, but often struggle to identify specific processes that are best suited for…

Apr 25, 2025

Increasing the “Values” in Your Value Chain

This guest post was created by Russ Shumaker and Ben Barras of World Vision. Ben is a faculty advisor in our Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, and just completed an incredible…

Mar 19, 2025

Why New Tariffs Won’t Bring Jobs Back to the United States

My colleague Jon Pershke, a former Lenovo strategy executive who now serves as a Faculty Advisor at our Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, recently presented me with the following scenario. :Let’s…

Mar 14, 2025

Creating a Supply Chain Fault-Tolerant Decision Making Environment Using Generative Agents

By Joseph Yacura and Rob Handfield Abstract: The further migration of supply chain automation is inevitable. The rapid development of generative agents will only accelerate the implementation of autonomous supply…

Feb 24, 2025

Worried about Impending Tariffs?

Tariffs are likely coming… what should you and your key global suppliers be doing to get ready for it? Last week I sat in on a great panel at the…

Feb 8, 2025

Trump’s Negotiation Strategy

The last four weeks have been really chaotic for business executives, trying to understand when the impact of tariffs and new trade policies will take place, or if they are…

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