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Jan 3, 2025

The Role of Centers of Excellence in Supply Chain Transformation

In 2025, we will likely see many supply chain organizations creating multi-purpose COEs that carry out several different processes. Organizations may begin with a COE focused on transactional work around…

Apr 28, 2026

Uncertainties Surrounding Forecasts for the Global Economy

A recent post by Jason Miller highlighted the current level of instability that surrounds not only the price of oil, but indeed the impact of recent events on the global…

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…

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…

May 20, 2026

Building the Intelligent Supply Chain:

EXECUTIVE INSIGHT Building the Intelligent Supply Chain: How Lenovo Orchestrated a Decade-Long AI Transformation Across Its Global Operations Case Study by Rob Handfield, Bank of America Professor of Supply Chain…

Dec 17, 2024

Myths Regarding Impact of Tariffs’ Impact on the Global Economy Economy

With a new Trump administration coming into power in January 2025, one of the biggest fears that businesses are waiting to hear about is tariffs.  President-elect Trump has offered that…

Sep 3, 2024

Your Suppliers are Vulnerable to Cyberattacks, and so are You…

An increasing vulnerability in today’s supply chains is the threat of cybersecurity intrusions. While many large organizations have sought to bolster their internal systems through multiple layers of cybersecurity preventive…

Apr 10, 2024

The China Container Risk in Global Supply Chain and Foreign Trade

I recently sat on an ASTM F49 Committee Meeting on supply chain standards (I serve as the pro bono secretary for the committee). ASTM International is a standards development organization…

Mar 7, 2024

Do Tariffs Really Impact China’s Global Supply Chain?

Co-authored with Clark Banach, PhD I recently had a fantastic discussion with Clark Banach, Program Director at Aletheia Research Institution and Futures Fellow at MERICS (Mercator Institute for China Studies),…

Jan 16, 2024

Comparing the 2023 National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS): A Critique and Comparison to Supply Chain Immunity

The Department of Defense released four days ago its inaugural National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS), which is intended  to  guide the Department’s engagement, policy development, and investment in the industrial…