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Steve Geary on Global Logistics and Risk
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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.
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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.
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Another USPS bailout?

Congress could use an economics tutorial.

Market equilibriums work well in the supply chain, but Congress doesn’t seem to understand that.
August 23, 2020
Another USPS bailout will keep the mail flowing for now, but the fundamental issue is a supply and demand equilibrium challenge.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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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