Try buying a toilet bowl at your local store and don’t be surprised if they tell you that it’s a three month lead time – and no, that’s not a misprint. As we have been observing in this blog, the alarm bells are going off at most of…
This reminds me of the series we wrote many years ago when we said, “Strategic Sourcing is Dead – and if Not, it Should Be”. It may be time to take a look at how we have designed Supply Chains and acknowledge that perhaps the pendulum may have…
By now you have probably heard about the poor Ever Given which is stuck in the Suez Canal. The impact of this is yet to be felt and the severity of the impact is yet to be calculated. Here are just some of the headlines: Suez blockage could…
The following title caught my eye, especially since I had unsuccessfully tried to convince family on a Zoom call that we were not out of the woods yet : “America Is Ignoring the Coronavirus Variants at Its Own Peril – A tale of “two epidemics.” Everything was hunky…
Actually, I don’t even know their record this year (and that’s part of the point), but the Seattle Seahawks were not in the Super Bowl and here’s why I think they were the best team: “The N.F.L. Had Over 700 Coronavirus Positives. The Seahawks Had None.” was the…
