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The West Coast Bottleneck with Brian Rice

The Logistics of Logistics

In the podcast interview Brian shares his insights on the shipment delays on the West Coast that are wreaking havoc on retail, e-commerce, and production supply chains. The US imported the most goods from Canada until 2007 when China replaced our neighbor to the north. Employees stayed home because 1.) Fear of COVID, 2.)

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When We Don’t Have Answers, We Need to Work Quickly To Build Them

Supply Chain Shaman

” The storyline starts with a supply chain story of a shortage–semiconductors, rental cars, plastics–and ends with an easy answer. Nothing about the current state of the supply chain is easy. Supply chain leaders have the ability to drive change like never before. And, voila! The reason?

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When We Don’t Have Answers, We Need to Work Quickly To Build Them

Supply Chain Shaman

” The storyline starts with a supply chain story of a shortage–semiconductors, rental cars, plastics–and ends with an easy answer. Nothing about the current state of the supply chain is easy. Supply chain leaders have the ability to drive change like never before. And, voila! The reason?

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When We Don’t Have Answers, We Need to Work Quickly To Build Them

Supply Chain Shaman

” The storyline starts with a supply chain story of a shortage–semiconductors, rental cars, plastics–and ends with an easy answer. Nothing about the current state of the supply chain is easy. Supply chain leaders have the ability to drive change like never before. And, voila! The reason?

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Will Trump’s Trade War Kill Off Economic Growth?

Supply Chain Brain

The Eurozone , only recently in danger of becoming a basket case, is experiencing its strongest growth since 2007. percent this year — the best since 2010, Behravesh told the recent TPM Annual Conference in Long Beach, Calif., Global GDP chalked up growth of 3.2 percent in 2017 and is on track to approach 3.5