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The Post isn’t normally a place to learn about supply chain innovation, but this is interesting.

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.

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

Another USPS bailout will keep the mail flowing for now, but the fundamental issue is a supply and demand equilibrium challenge.

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.”

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

Absorb the lessons in agility provided by the coronavirus experience.

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

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