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.

The one thing you know about a forecast is that it is wrong.

Risk Management requires agility, not just software

We anticipated 2-to-3% of the population would be infected; we’re dealing with a fraction of that. We’re dealing with a tenth of that.

June 28, 2020

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Absorb the lessons in agility provided by the coronavirus experience.

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.

June 23, 2020

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Supply chains are not the closed systems that macroeconomists posit. There are always unexpected external influences at the microeconomic level.

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?

May 14, 2020

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We talk about compressing Supply Chains and channel strategies. Farmers talk about Community Supported Agriculture. Are they the same thing?

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.

May 6, 2020

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After the Storm

Is your supply chain emerging from the storm? Will your nodes be intact? Will your channels be there? Did your network survive?

April 30, 2020

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Let the elephant dance.

Congress and the USPS.

April 11, 2020

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The United States Postal Service (USPS) is in the headlines again. It's not good news. The Postal Service needs another bailout. Congress needs to stop hurling partisan dogmas and solve the business problem.

It’s getting real. Hospital ships USNS Comfort and Mercy are Sailing.

March 18, 2020

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In a clear escalation in its response to the coronavirus, Washington is laying down the same medical logistics infrastructure the armed forces use in time of war. Except this time the casualties are civilians brought down in the homeland by a virus.

Stars and Stripes. For now, or forever?

March 16, 2020

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The Fiscal Year 2021 budget request released by the Pentagon in February eliminates all government funding for Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper. But is that wise?

Curb your dogma

March 1, 2020

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Supply chain practitioners have fallen into the trap of tunnel vision. Lean manufacturing. Offshoring. Outsourcing. These tactics do not necessarily lead to best value decisions.

The allegory of the rail

February 21, 2020

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In February, subzero temperatures in Canada can cause logistics disruptions. This year, in addition to the weather, there is a massive rail blockage triggered by the Wet'suwet'en, an indigenous nation in British Columbia.

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