Steve Geary

Cost is a discriminator but relying on low cost items when they may not show up is not a winning approach.

A simple punch list for addressing risk in the supply chain.

Cost is a discriminator but relying on low cost items when they may not show up is not a winning approach.

October 5, 2020

The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) published a simple punch list for bringing risk management into Supply Chain Management. Karen Haywood Queen, Contributing Editor at SME Media put the article together.

Supply Chain Risk Management is far broader than cyber. The Department of Defense needs to take off the blinders.

Tunnel Vision at the Office of the Secretary of Defense

The Office of the Secretary of Defense posted a job, Director, Supply Chain Risk Management. Is a reawakening taking place?

September 27, 2020

Steve Geary

Supply Chain Risk Management is far broader than cyber. The Department of Defense needs to take off the blinders.

The USPS needs help, not just a bailout.

A Tale of Two Empires

Congress and the Postal Service need to wake up and smell the roses.

August 31, 2020

Steve Geary

The USPS is a business, the taxpayers own it, and we entrust the politicians to deliver guidance and support to achieve the mission.

President Trump has taken aim at Huawei. The implicit risks introduced to the supply chain are as the President might say, “huge.”

Huawei, The President, and Industrial Policy

The Dilemma of Realpolitik

August 17, 2020

Steve Geary

Any competent supply chain professional is well versed in Risk Management, so we understand the logic behind President Trump’s move against Huawei. Word choice is important. The verb used was “understand,” which is not the same as “agree.”

Supply Chain activities are migrating outside of the four walls.

Supply Chain Risk in the age of the coronavirus

Supply Chain Management activities are rapidly evolving to run in the virtual space.

July 31, 2020

Steve Geary

As Supply Chain Management becomes more virtual, the associated risk escalates.

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

Steve Geary

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

Steve Geary

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

Steve Geary

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

Steve Geary

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

Steve Geary

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