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- Breaking News: Buyers Meeting Point Owner Kelly Barner Branches out as Director of Intelligence for Palambridge
- [News] Art of Procurement and the Elephant in the Room
- Thought Leader Q&A with Kelly Barner, Managing Director, Buyers Meeting Point LLC (Thinkers360)
- On Earth Day, Digital Networks Turning Global Commerce a Brighter Shade of Green (SAP Ariba)
- Buyers Meeting Point Owner Kelly Barner Ranked Top Influencer in Procurement by Thinkers360
- Buyers Meeting Point Owner Kelly Barner Ranked Top Influencer in Procurement by CPOstrategy Magazine
- 5 Things I Learned from Interviewing Procurement Experts and Thought Leaders (Vizibl)
- How Procurement Can Re-invent Itself In The Workplace (Procurify)
- Press Release: Buyers Meeting Point Acquires MyPurchasingCenter
- How Kelly Barner Became the World's No. 1 Influencer (Procurious)
- Supply Chain Now Expands Lineup to Increase Coverage of Procurement
- The Brave New World of Procurement (Supply Chain Now)
- The Sourcing Hero Episode 14: Embracing a Big Picture Mindset
- Forming A BIG, BOLD Procurement Vision
- This Week in Business History for April 12th: And Justice for All – Metallica takes Napster to Court
- Managing 'the People Part'
- Beyond Tier 2 Spend: Advocate for Workforce Diversity in Your Supply Chain
- Procurement in 5-Minutes: What is the best way to build procurement’s brand?
- Data Series: Holistic Supply Chain Risk Management: Response & Resilience W/ Heiko Schwarz
- Communicating procurement's value for better relationships, results and business impact
- This Week in Business History for May 10th: The Rise of the "Oracle of Omaha"
- Automation Ahead of Its Time: Sourcing Optimization
- TEKTOK Digital Supply Chain Podcast: The Bounce Back Begins
- Approaching Procurement with a Growth Mindset - A Dial P for Procurement Interview
- Supplier Diversity: Urgency, Scalability, And Ownership W/ Neeraj Shah
- Becoming Fluent in Diversity Terms and Phrases
- This Week in Business History for June 7th: Samuel "Slater the Traitor," Father of the American Industrial Revolution
- SAP #SAPPHIRENOW Procurement & Supply Chain After Party
- This Week in Business History for July 5th: This Week in Business History for July 5th-9th: "Honest, intelligent, and unprejudiced" - The Wall Street Journal.
- The Nuance and Granularity Required for Targeted Diverse Economic Impact
- This Week in Business History for July 19-23: Cooking the Books at WorldCom
- Where Supply Chain, Logistics, and the Fine Art World Collide
- This Week in Business History for August 2nd: Signs of Progress at the Corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue
- Move Faster, Save More, and Look Better Doing It! With Anthony Clervi and Kris Lance from Una
- This Week in Business History for August 16th: Laying the First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable
- Supplier Diversity Certifications: Third Party v. Self-certification - Part 1
- Supplier Diversity Certifications: Third Party v. Self-certification - Part 2
- This Week in Business History for August 30th: Everyone Knows It's Slinky
- This Week in Business History for September 13th: Fixing Edison’s Lightbulb: The Story of Lewis Howard Latimer
- This Week in Business History for September 27: A Trio of Inventions that Tell Curious Tales
- Have you added Procurement Software to your IT budget?
- This Week in Business HIstory for October 11th: Controversial Nobel Prize Laureates Milton Friedman (1976) and John Nash (1994)
- Key Takeaways from the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo 2021 - EMEA
- This Week in Business History for October 25th: The Great (Failed) Social Experiment of Prohibition Begins: The Passage of the Volstead Act
- Supplier Diversity Comes to the Forefront: The 2021 State of Supplier Diversity Report w Neeraj Shah
- This Week in Business History for November 8th: From Mary Anderson to Tesla- 120 Years of Windshield Wiper Innovation
- This Week in Business History for November 22nd: Talking Turkey- The Business of Thanksgiving
- This Week in Business History for December 6th: A Birdseye View on the Frozen Foods Industry
- The Prepared will Prevail: Investing in Collaborative Supply Chain Resilience
- Supply Market Research Trends for Procurement and Supply Chain: 2021 Update
- This Week in Business History for January 10th: The Truth, Myth, and Legacy of the Bread and Roses Strike (1912)
- This Week in Business History for January 24th: ‘Hold My Beer’ – The Genesis of Everyone’s Favorite Can
- Veteran Voices: Life is a Battle and Life is a Journey
- This Week in Business History for February 8th: Nobody Ran Like John Deere
- This Week in Business History for February 22nd: Drivers! Start… your… engines! The History of NASCAR
- This Week in Business History for March 8th: The Buck Starts Here- The History of U.S. Paper Money
- Dial P for Procurement: Escaping the Clutches of the Old Economy by Building Supply Ecosystems
- Are inflation expectations a self-fulfilling prophesy?
- Boots on the Ground in Shanghai, China feat. Jeffrey Goldstein, President of ONWARD Global
- Don’t say Digital: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the New Economy
- Hey CEOs – Love the One You’re With
- This Week in Business History for May 3rd: Unions, Censorship, & Sound- The Genesis of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Elon Musk Bought Twitter. What Happens Next?
- Preparing for the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act and Regulations Featuring Constantine Limberakis with riskmethods
- This Week in Business History for May 17th: Quality That Never Goes Out of Style- The Levi’s Story
- Hunting for the True Source of the Baby Formula Shortage
- Does it Matter if We Go Into a Recession?
- This Week in Business History for May 31st: 18th Century Supply Chain Disruption- The Boston Port Act
- Losing the Plot: Social Mission v. Business Fundamentals
- Is the World Trade Organization Jeopardizing Innovation by Failing to Protect IP?
- Race Against the Clock: Getting the Grain Out of Ukraine
- The Resurgence and Economic Impact of Supplier Diversity Programs in America
- Leverage on 18 Wheels: The South Korean Driver Strike
- American Supply Chain Revolution
- Heavy Traffic and Human Trafficking at the U.S. Border
- This Week in Business History for July 19th: Remembering John Wanamaker, Merchant Prince of Philadelphia
- Refillable v. Recyclable: The EPA Takes on Domestic Production
- Guarding Private Incentive to Innovate featuring Patent Attorney Wen Xie
- How to Track and Measure Workforce Diversity
- This Week in Business History for August 1st: Tasting Stars with Dom Perignon
- Why is fuel so expensive?
- Does the CHIPS Act provide the Helpful Incentives U.S. semiconductor manufacturing needs?
- This Week in Business History for August 16th: Julia Child- "Only a Businesswoman"
- Sustained Empathetic Leadership in Turbulent Times
- Stop Explaining Why Diversity Is Important
- Can these supply relationships be saved?
- This Week in Business History for August 30th: The Man with the Red Star Tattoo - R. H. Macy
- Looking at ESG Investing with a Critical Eye
- Top 5 Dial P for Procurement Episodes, August 2022
- Empowering Supplier Diversity Managers to Succeed in All Economies
- Intent v. Effect of Uyghur Forced Labor Regulation
- Do we have the will to withstand the fallout from human rights regulation?
- Taking a Thoughtful Approach to Relentless Improvement Featuring Tom Burke with ButcherBox
- Taking Responsibility for the Customer Experience
- Banned Books Week 2022: Fighting for Intellectual Freedom
- Intellectual Freedom is the Answer to Today's Business Challenges
- FedEx Ground’s Contractor Woes
- Will Black Friday be purple this year?
- Dial P for Procurement Monthly Download Rankings
- Boeing Australia Uses Relational Contracting With Indigenous Businesses
- Tentatively Making the Trains Run on Time
- The Rail Strike Isn’t Over ‘Till It’s Over
- The Rise and Fall of Apple Procurement VP Tony Blevins
- Why did Apple part ways with their VP of Procurement?
- Can the EU Function as a Single Market in an Emergency?
- What would you give up to get emergency protections?
- Elevating the 'Why' Behind Supplier Diversity
- The Downside of Diversity at McDonald's
- An Open Letter to Byron Allen, Owner of Allen Media Group
- Measurement and Accountability for Growing Supplier Diversity
- Dial P for Procurement Monthly Download Rankings - Oct 2022
- A Classic Strategic Sourcing Challenge for NATO
- If NATO succeeds in standardizing their military spend, they will likely fail
- Empowering Teams to Sustain Supplier Diversity into the Future
- Tracking Recent Layoffs: It’s Getting Bad Out There
- What can we learn from recent layoffs
- Winter is Coming: Trouble in the Energy Supply Chain
- What will this winter cost you?
- Dial P Updated Classic: The Baby Formula Crisis
- The Root Causes Baby Formula Crisis Remain Unaddressed
- The State of Supplier Diversity in 2022: Progress. Process. Empowerment.
- 10 Tips for Supplier Diversity Success
- Dial P for Procurement Monthly Download Rankings - Nov 2022
- Speculating About the Future of Taiwan
- Can a country without free speech freely participate in global trade?
- 2022 Procurement & Supply Chain News in Review
- Procurement 6 for Friday Dec 16 2022
- Procurement & Supply Chain Lessons Learned in 2022
- Dial P Updated Classic: Social Mission v. Business Fundamentals
- Real World Advice From a Life Well Lived
- Dial P Updated Classic: Tentatively Making the Trains Run on Time
- Dial P for Procurement Monthly Download Rankings - Dec 2022
- Procurement, meet no-code development
- The Sourcing Hero podcast episode 97: No One Climbs Mount Everest Alone with Dylan McCabe
- 8 Top Tips for eCommerce Growth in 2023
- Applying Category Management to the Challenges of a New Age
- Find the Hat.
- Digital Outcomes 2023 Agenda Reveal w/ Kelly Barner and Philip Ideson
- Participating in Procurement and Other Extreme Sports
- The Sourcing Hero podcast episode 98: Turning Ethos Into Action with Ian Arthurs
- Translating Digital Investments into Digital Outcomes
- Procurement 6 – January 20th, 2023
- 4 Ways We are All Like Southwest Airlines
- The Sourcing Hero episode 99: Leading Change Through Collective Courage with Daniel Oppong
- Three Key Lessons from a True Procurement Ironman
- The Persistent Mr. Peltz, Activist Investor
- The Sourcing Hero podcast Episode 100! Marking a Major Milestone with the Masters of the UNAverse Anthony Clervi and Kris Lance
- Supplier Diversity Responsibility, Accountability & Advocacy featuring Ayesha Simons with Colgate-Palmolive
- Do fish know they are wet?
- Buyer Power Score – Pest Control Services
- The Sourcing Hero podcast episode 101: Maximizing the Value of Strong Supplier Partnerships with Juli Lassow
- A Look at the Current State of Procurement Recruiting
- The Dark Side of the Super Bowl Guac Supply Chain
- Procurement 6 – February 10th, 2023
- Revisiting the Importance of Supplier Watchlists
- The Sourcing Hero podcast EPISODE 102 Insuring Against Cyber Liability and Exposure with Shawn Edgington
- What about the writers that remain?
- The Psychological Long Tail of Supply Chain Disruption
- The Sourcing Hero podcast episode 103: Seeing Opportunity Through an Executive Lens with Jeff Davis
- Supply Chain Today and Tomorrow with Mike Griswold: Musical Tour of Modern Supply Chain
- Stuck Between a Nickel Mine and a Hard Place
- Key Takeaways From Digital Outcomes 2023 w/ Philip Ideson and Kelly Barner
- How to Benchmark Supplier Diversity Performance
- The Sourcing Hero podcast episode 104: Leveraging the Power of a Procurement Task Force with Harold Hendrickx
- Women Without a Future Are Making History
- Procurement 6 - March 3rd, 2023
- The Sourcing Hero podcast episode 105: Mining the Gaps for Strategic Supply Chain Value with Steve Clarke
- Pardon Our Appearance
- The Sourcing Hero podcast episode 106 The Power of Procurement for Small Business with Chandhrika Venkataramen
- The Journey to 1 Million Downloads of the Art of Procurement Podcast
- The Sourcing Hero podcast episode 107: Pursuing Your Full Potential With Gratitude with David Meltzer
- Learn more about the Marcus Evans CPO Summit
- The Next Phase of Dial P for Procurement Begins
- Procurement 6 - March 24th, 2023
- The Art of Thinking About Complex Issues
- The Sourcing Hero podcast Episode 108: Considering the Transparency and Control of Digital Currency with Kris Lance
- Data and Derailment in East Palestine, OH
- When Data-Driven Systems Work and Still Lead to Failure
- The Sourcing Hero podcast EPISODE 109 Delivering Exceptional Value Through Business Relationships with Heather Fotch
- Case Dismised: Spencer Patton Prevails Over FedEx
- The Fine Line Between Free Speech and Commercial Speech
- The Sourcing Hero podcast episode 110: Telling a Business Story Beyond the Numbers with Christian Frantz Hansen
- Loss Aversion Theory and the Collapse of SVB
- We are Hardwired to Avoid Loss More than Risk
- Procurement 6 - April 14, 2023
- The Sourcing Hero podcast Episode 111: Taking Intelligent Risks with Mark Trowbridge
- The Power and Danger of Asking Good Questions
- Socrates: Ignorant Influencer or Disruptive Thinker?
- The Sourcing Hero podcast episode 112: Tough Times Don’t Last But Tough People Do with Kris Lance
- Dial P for Procurement: Negotiating The Big One: UPS and the Teamsters Labor Union
- Organized Labor’s Final Mile? The Teamsters v. UPS
- Benchmarking Supplier Diversity to Drive Performance w/ Aylin Basom and Lois Eichacker
- An AOP Rebrand 8 Years in the Making w/ Philip Ideson and Kelly Barner
- The Sourcing Hero podcast episode 113: Learning to Work Side-by-Side with ChatGPT with Joshua Palacios
- Bed Bath & Beyond’s Decline from Superstore to No-more
- Bed Bath & Gone: 1971 - 2023
- Procurement 6 - May 5, 2023
- The Sourcing Hero podcast Episode 114: Creating a Difference in Sustainable Packaging with Cory Connors
- Supply Chain Cyber Attack: Expeditors and iRobot
- The Long Tail of a Supply Chain Cyber Attack
- The Sourcing Hero podcast episode 115: Building a Legacy of Leadership with Retired Lt. Col. Oakland McCulloch
- JPMorgan Chase Stops the Financial Contagion
- Tipping the Scales of Opportunity in the Banking Sector
- Getting to Know Should-Cost Analysis w/ Yushiro Kato
- The Sourcing Hero podcast Episode 116: Winning the Mythical Talent War with Jon Hansen
- A GAAP in Judgement at Kraft Heinz
- I’ll Gladly Pay You Tuesday for a Hamburger Today
- Procurement 6 - May 26, 2023
- The Sourcing Hero podcast episode 117: Title 42 Comes to An End
- The Laws of Supply and Demand Meat at Tyson Foods
- Tyson Foods Gets Smacked by the Invisible Hand
- Scaling Supply Chains for Profitable Growth with Marcia Williams
- Artistic Revolutions: Comparing the Impact of Photography and Generative AI
- The Liberating Effect of AI on Artistic Expression
- Understanding the Impact of Emotional Intelligence with Phil Johnson
- Dove’s Real Beauty Campaign: Evolution of a Social Message
- Dove Real Beauty: Inviting Discussion and Sparking Criticism
- The Procurement 6 for June 16, 2023
- Increasing the Placement of Women in Senior Executive Roles with Sanja Cancar-Todorovic
- Are contracts obscuring U.S. child labor in your supply chain?
- Supply Chain Case Files: Illegal Child Labor
- The Sourcing Hero podcast episode 121: Agriculture as a Political Hot Topic with Kris Lance
- Meet Digit - The Future of Warehouse Automation
- Will the future of supply chain automation be humanoid or dark?
- Helping Women in Supply Chain Set Audacious Goals with Nicole Glenn
- R.I.P. Great Resignation (2020-2023)
- Procurement 6 - July 7, 2023
- Healing Healthcare Supply Chains with Luká Yancopoulos
- Russia’s Wagner Group as Rogue Supplier
- The Latest Trends in Contingent Workforce Management with Julia Braun
- Tracking Procurement from Industry 1.0 – 5.0
- When Implanted Neuro Chips Are Top of Mind with Kris Lance
- Public Education as Corporate Social Responsibility
- Procurement 6 - July 28, 2023
- Where have the children gone?
- Halfway to 2024: An Art of Procurement Mid-Year Check In
- Making Procurement Research Actionable with Denis Wolowiecki
- Tesla Takes the Socialist Pledge
- Tesla in China: Three Strange Days in July
- Be a Business Silo Solver with Danelle M. Brown
- The Problem with Performative ESG
- Would ESG by any other name smell as sweet?
- Large Sports & Entertainment Venue Services Procurement with Matt Mehler
- Restoring Business Imagination Through Nature
- Procurement 6 - August 18, 2023
- Minds Poised Between Farm and Factory
- Transforming the Digital Customer Experience with Jay Dettling
- Who is to blame for Yellow’s demise?
- No “I” in Teamsters - But No “We” Either
- Building and Understanding Trust with Kris Lance
- Dodging the Urban Doom Loop
- Reaction Without Understanding: the Doom Loop
- Walking the Walk to Embrace Generative AI with Kevin Frechette
- Nerves of U.S. Steel
- Procurement 6 for September 8, 2023
- U.S. Steel Cage Match
- The Innovative Power of Raw Curiosity with Wes Davis
- The Cold, Hard Facts About Cold Chain Logistics
- Do you want to build a cold chain?
- Fostering a Sense of Belonging with Michaela Payton
- Getting a Kiss From a World Class Supply Chain
- Hershey's Sweet Supply Chain Success
- The Complexity of Navigating the Panama Canal with Kris Lance
- The Competitive Expectations Behind the Google Antitrust Trial
- Procurement 6 - September 29 2023
- Simple Steps for Growing Supplier Diversity
- Monopoly: Not Illegal to Have, Just Illegal to Keep
- Packaging is a Magical Place with Matthew Wright
- Books As a Proxy for Free Thought
- Managing Services Procurement on a Grand Scale
- Ideas = Innovation
- Making the Impossible Possible in Global Sourcing with Chris Volz
- Smucker’s + Hostess = Supply Chain Synergy
- J. M. Smucker Can Have Their Cake and Eat It Too
- Using Visibility to Combat Supply Chain Abstraction with Frank Kenney
- Negotiating Lessons from Hollywood Labor
- Procurement 6 Podcast for October 20, 2023
- Achieving Next Level Supplier Relationships
- Cool, Calm, and Collective Bargaining
- Procurement Out of This World with Kris Lance
- The LEGO Sustainability Saga
- Why Bed Bath & Beyond’s supply chain wasn’t on Target
- Can LEGO go green?
- Speaking the Language of Non-Verbal Communication with Laura Scarfe
- Coca-Cola’s Project Last Mile
- Coca-Cola's Supply Chain is the Real Thing
- Dispelling Common Myths About Carbon Emissions with Alexis Normand
- Is it the most wonderful time of the supply chain year?
- Procurement 6 - November 10, 2023
- Will holiday shopping lead to peak shipping?
- Supply Chain Tech and Supplier Onboarding with Toni Ann Careccio
- Supply Chain Post-Mortem: Convoy
- Rumors of Convoy’s Demise Haven’t Been Exaggerated at All
- Where are they now?
- Unforgettable Supply Chain News Stories
- 2023 Listener Favorites with Kris Lance
- The White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience
- Supply Market Information & Research 2023
- Who is NOT on the White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience?
- Increasing the Liquidity of the Supply Chain with Richard Gusmano
- Will the world fiddle while Bangladesh burns?
- Uneasy Peace in the Supply Chain
- Building Trust in a Disconnected World with Julienne Ryan
- Reading FedEx Ground the RICO Act
- 2023 Dial P for Procurement Year in Review
- Is there a supply chain mafia?
- Looking Back and Looking Ahead with Kris Lance
- Troubling Times for Electric Trucking
- The High Cost of Electric Innovation
- Calling All Solution Enthusiasts! with A'Keela Johnson
- Procurement 6 - January 5, 2024
- Successful Companies Need Strong Communities with Erica McMannes
- Introducing the Art of Supply
- Optimization of Procurement in the Automotive Industry with Robert Čačković
- High Stakes in the Red Sea
- Suffering From Red Sea-Sickness
- Finding a Workable Model for Zero Emissions Fleets with Ron Hunt
- Weight and Value x Distance: Studying Global Supply Chain Use and Cost
- Procurement 6 - January 26, 2024
- Understanding How Far Goods Travel
- 2024: The Year of the Dragon?
- The Drone Final Mile Becomes Reality
- Regulating the Drone-Friendly Skies
- What You Don’t Know About Shipping Can Hurt You with Nick DiNatale
- Savings v. Safety in Aircraft Manufacturing
- Outsourcing = Flying Blind?
- Spending for Maximum Social Impact with Colin Downie
- Killer App: The UK Post Office Scandal
- Procurement 6 - February 16, 2024
- Brand Risk on the Horizon
- Finding Purpose in Procurement and in Life with Paul Nilsen
- Case Dismissed: Byron Allen v. McDonald's
- Diverse Definitions of Success
- Time to Return to Just-in-Time?
- Persistence of Supply Chain Memory
- Don't Get Fired with Mark Grieco
- Surviving the Supply Chain Arena
- Procurement 6 - March 8, 2024
- "No Effort Without Error"
- Accelerating the Data Feedback Loop feat. Emilie Schario
- Three Strikes for the New Baseball Uniform
- Nike and Fanatics Step Up to the Plate
- Telling a Compelling Procurement Story with Alex Ball
- Treasure Hunting with TJX
- Secrets of TJX's Success
- What You Don't Know Can Hertz You
- Sometimes The Truth Hertz
- Even with +1, China is still #1
- Leaving China: The Right Way, the Wrong Way, and the Max Power Way
- Net Zero in New York? JBS Accused of Greenwashing
- Beefy Emissions Baseline for JBS
- Playing the “China Card” in U.S. Ports
- Any Port in a Storm
- Examining the Practicality of the EV Truck Mandate
- Defusing a Charged Supply Chain Situation
- Replacing Good Intentions with Good Outcomes at Whistl
- Don't Try to Push Water Uphill
- The Surging Problem of AI Energy Consumption
- Procurement 6 - May 10, 2024
- The Real Energy Requirements of Artificial Intelligence
- Empathy is Not a Soft Skill
- Beyond Handshakes: The Face of Empathy in the Workplace
- Searching for the Limits of Employee Activism at Google
- Symptoms of Disruption in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
- Sending a Powerful Message About America’s Pharmaceutical Independence
- Drug Shortages as a Matter of National Security
- Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Progress or Setback?
- UFLPA Compliance: The Stuff of Supply Chain Nightmares
- Former Pioneer Oil CEO Scott Sheffield – Colluder or Scapegoat?
- Procurement 6 - June 21, 2024
- The Case For (& Against) Former Pioneer Oil CEO Scott Sheffield
- Ultimate Endless Real Estate Costs at Red Lobster
- Will Red Lobster sleep with the fishes?
- Project Last Mile: A Story Worth Retelling
- The Power of Saying Yes
- Chasing a Common Supply Chain Objective: Saving Lives
- What kind of village are you building?
- Procurement 6 - July 12, 2024
- De Minimis: Supply Chain Trifles the Law Should be Concerned With
- 3 Billion Packages Are Not a 'De Minimis' Problem
- The Great Supply Trail Robbery
- Protecting Cargo in the Wild, Wild West
- Will FedEx Freight hit the open road?
- Procurement 6 - August 2, 2024
- Establishing a Single Source of Truth for Third-Party Risk in Financial Services
- Will FedEx Freight pull ahead as "pure play" LTL?
- Orchestrating the Chaos of Retail Fulfillment
- Breaking Through the Wall of Retail Packages
- Fishing for Truth in the Seafood Supply Chain
- Fishy Products in the Seafood Supply Chain
- Freight Electrification as a Service
- Rethinking the Feasibility of Electric Trucking
- Procurement 6 - August 23, 2024
- The (Lost) Art of Accepting Criticism
- Thank You for the Gift of Your Feedback
- If we had a crystal ball… Mid-year check in with Philip Ideson and Kelly Barner
- Proposed Patent Rule Changes and their Impact on Innovation w/ Wen Xie
- Will the government go marching in?
- Calculating the Cost of Convenience in Facilities Management
- Advancements & Adjustments in the GE Appliances Supply Chain
- Continuous Improvement Requires Courage
- Procurement 6 - September 13, 2024
- Evaluating India as a Viable Alternative to China
- Investing to Build a Viable Alternative to China
- Developing and Deploying Digital Empathy
- Digital Empathy: Squishy or Strategic?
- Supply Chains as Business in Action
- How Labor Costs Drive Supply Chain Strategy
- Procurement 6 - October 3, 2024
- East and Gulf Coast Port Strike – Part 1
- Dockworkers' Unions Try to Hold the Line on Automation
- ESG Risk: Hiding in Plain Sight?
- Tips for Surviving in a Brave New World
- Four Lessons for Surviving Our ‘Brave New World’
- 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Special Series
- Holding Our Breath: Supply Chain Impact of the 2024 Presidential Election
- Procurement 6 - October 25, 2024
- Creating a B2C to B to C Improvement Cycle at Walmart Business
- On Becoming a Strategic Thinker
- Consolidating the USPS Final Mile
- USPS Transformation Speaks Volumes
- The Power of Visualization in Freight Optimization and Resilience
- Looking for 'No' in Supply Chain Decision Making
- Procurement 6 - November 15th 2024
- Can food safety inspectors self inspect?
- Liverwurst, Listeria, and Liability: Food Safety at Boar’s Head
- Walking a Mile in Another Supply Chain’s Shoes
- Grateful for: Meaningful Conversations
- When Getting it ‘Wrong’ Makes You Right
- In Defense of Outliers
- Procurement 6 - December 6, 2024
- Supply Chain Forecast: Volatile with Tim Richardson
- Think Through Complexity to Act Simply
- Solving Supply Chain Puzzles: Insights from a Year of Interviews
- Center Midfielder’s Guide to Supply Chain Strategy
- Supply Chain Stories to Watch at the Start of 2025
- 5 Supply Chain Stories to Watch in 2025
- Small Steps, Big Impact: Transforming Procurement at Mastermind Live 2024
- Re-reading "Good to Great" at the Start of a New Year
- From Good to Great: Leadership, Legacy, and the Price of Prominence
- Reenvisioning Robotics: Combining Hardware and Software for Warehouse Automation
- Mastering Multidimensional Material Flows
- The Dawn of a New Era in U.S. Trade Policy
- A Year of Global Trade Reciprocity Begins
- Nebraska v. California: The EV Trucking Transition
- Misaligned Mandates in EV Trucking
- Misfortune on 34th Street: Accounting Issues at Macy’s
- Accounts and Accountability
- Systematic Issues with the Freight Agent Model
- A Dylan v. Goliath Story
- Who will decide the future of EV trucking?
- Last Line of Defense Against Regulatory Overreach in the Supply Chain
- Lessons in Listening from Joe Rogan and Charlamagne tha God
- Having a Conversation with Joe Rogan and Charlamagne tha God
- A Narrow Path Towards Noninflationary Tariffs
- Tariff Carrots & Sticks: Aligning U.S. Interests in Trade, Currency, and National Security
- East and Gulf Coast Port Strike – Part 2
- Striking a Balance on Automation at U.S. Ports
- Investing in People-powered Safety in Food Manufacturing
- The Ongoing Fight for Food Safety
- Decoding the DOGE Savings Calculator
- Transparency, Turbulence, and the Truth About Savings at DOGE
- Who owns the Panama Canal?
- From Beijing to BlackRock: Power Shifts in the Panama Canal
- LTL Shakeup: Will Amazon join the fray?
- Amazon. In the LTL market. With an acquisition?
- Scope 3 Showdown: Green Century v. Ford
- Is Built Ford Tough green enough?
- In Defense of Lean Thinking
- Lean Thinking for a Shifting World
- Beef with the Big 4: McDonald’s vs. the Meat Monopoly
- Hard Math: Cattle Costs v. Quarter Pounder Prices
- Manufacturing Labor Market Insights in an Uncertain World
- Wanted: Strategic Minds and Soft Skills
- Building a U.S. Solar Supply Chain
- From Quartz to Kilowatts: The U.S. Bid to Reclaim the Solar Supply Chain
- The 'Final Mile' of Human Trafficking Recovery
- Supply Chains & Second Chances: Human Trafficking Aftercare
- How U.S. Tariffs Are Reshaping Global Freight
- Freight Fluctuations: Navigating Capacity, Tariffs, and De Minimis Disruptions
- Semiconductor CHIPS, Checks, and Challenges
- Politics, Policy, and the Price of Semiconductor Progress
- Tariffs as a Girder for Domestic Fabricated Steel
- Tariffs as the Last Line of Defense in Domestic Structural Steel Fabrication
- High Velocity Lessons on Lobbying and Trade
- Lobbying for Increased Empathy in Global Trade
- Prioritizing Dispute Prevention Over Problem Solving
- Preventing Disputes by Embracing Conflict
- A Procurement Crime at Intel: Loopholes and Lessons Learned
- Million-Dollar Services Procurement Loophole
- Down but Not Out: California’s Fight to Regulate Emissions
- California: If We Can’t Ban the Truck, We’ll Bill the Warehouse
- How Transportation & Logistics Companies Are Tackling Network Security
- Network Security in Transportation and Logistics: Simpler, Smarter, and More Secure
- Remembering Fred Smith: FedEx Founder & Supply Chain Visionary
- Legacy in Motion: FedEx Founder Fred Smith (1944 - 2025)
- Making the Pivot to AI-enabled Global Sourcing
- Rethinking Product Differentiation in a Commoditized World
- What Restaurants Can Teach Us About Procurement & Supply Chain
- When the Last Inch Matters Most: Lessons in Hospitality and Leadership
- Coming Unchained to Embrace Global Supply Networks
- When Your Supply Chain Becomes a Bowl of Spaghetti
- From Billable Hours to Measurable Impact: The GSA’s Push for Outcome-Based Contracts
- The GSA Declares War on Gobbledegook
- Lost at Sea: Can the U.S. regain maritime dominance?
- China Built 1,000 Ships Last Year. The U.S. Built 8.
- Shipments Under Siege: The Growing Problem of Cargo Theft
- Cargo Theft Averages One Truckload per Hour in the U.S.
- Can Apple Reshore the iPhone?
- Carrots, Sticks, and the Future of the Apple iPhone
- Honk If You’re Qualified: Understanding CDL Safety
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