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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

Let the elephant dance.

Congress and the USPS.
April 11, 2020
Steve Geary
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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.
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USNS Comfort

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

March 18, 2020
Steve Geary
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.
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Stars and Stripes. For now, or forever?

March 16, 2020
Steve Geary
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?
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