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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…

Jan 17, 2025

Trust without vulnerability can’t exist in supply chain relationships

People often throw around the term “trust” in discussing supply chain relationships. Trust (and its cousin, Collaboration) seems to be a highly discussed element of effective supply chain relationships. In…

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…

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…

Nov 12, 2024

Are you really employing Category Management effectively?

Procurement categories are a grouping of materials or services that have similar supply and usage characteristics to meet business objectives.   Category management is different from the “strategic sourcing process”.  The…

Nov 8, 2024

Scope 3 Emissions Reporting Will Become a Key Responsibility for Supply Managers

Scope 3 is a science-based target initiative that organizations are employing to establish greenhouse gas emissions goals.  By addressing GHG emissions, companies can identify opportunities to bolster their bottom line,…

Oct 29, 2024

Promises, promises…

An Upcoming Election and the Threat of Tariffs[1] One of the many promises we are hearing during this election is that tariffs will be levied against the Chinese, and that…