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”Proximity is key to speed,” says Brian Gibson, a professor at Alabama’s Auburn University. Beyond speed, events like the blockage of the Suez Canal highlight to logisticians the risk inherent of global supply chains. By implication, a business case to be made for reshoring.

The pandemic and the associated disruptions across the global supply chain – notably in transportation – popped up on many dashboards over the past year. Don’t be deceived. Reshoring has been in action plans for many smart operators. According to the Reshoring Initiative (https://www.reshorenow.org/companies-reshoring/ ), about 1 million jobs have reshored since 2010.

Published late in 2020, the latest installment of the multiyear study “Logistics 2030: Navigating a Disruptive Decade” a multiyear study designed to assess the strategies, requirements, and tools that will shape supply chains and drive success over the next 10 years. Brian Gibson and Rafay Ishfaq of Auburn University’s Center for Supply Chain Innovation are conducting the research.

Strategic risk management plans need to be at the top of your list. It’s a brave new world. Discover America.

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 President now has a logistician in his cabinet.

January 23, 2020

Steve Geary

With all the distractions going on in Washington these days, it’s easy to forget that there is still a government infrastructure that keeps on cranking. And something of interest to logisticians took place earlier this month.

The Senate confirmed Jovita Carranza to lead the Small Business Administration, the first permanent head of the agency since Linda McMahon left a year ago. Ms. Carranza took her oath earlier this month.

According to Forbes.com, “Early in her career, Carranza worked at UPS, where she started as a part-time, night-shift box handler and worked her way up to become the company’s President of Latin America and Caribbean operations.”

The SBA became a cabinet level position in 2012. Connect the dots, and you will realize that there is now a proven, successful, and experience logistician who is one of the most senior positions in the federal government.

There is a Cabinet Secretary that understands the world of the logistician.

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The President now has a logistician in his cabinet.

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