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Art of Supply
Art of Supply, hosted by Kelly Barner, draws inspiration from news headlines and expert interviews to bring you insightful coverage of today's complex supply chains.
Episodes
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From Billable Hours to Measurable Impact: The GSA's Push for Outcome-Based Contracts
"If you're as good as you say you are, you should be able to keep your cost structure down, deliver the mission and the outcome, and still make a margin." -…
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Coming Unchained to Embrace Global Supply Networks W/ Tim Richardson
"We've had this whole period of trying to manage supply chains for lowest cost, whereas I think now we're managing for resilience at a managed cost and at an…
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What Restaurants Can Teach Us About Procurement & Supply Chain
"The way you do one thing is the way you do everything, and we found, over and over, that precision in the smallest of details translated to precision in the…
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Making the Pivot to AI-enabled Global Sourcing W/ Anthony Sardain
"There is a world where we can have a much more dynamic supply chain. Certainly, the current set of brands that are experiencing the squeeze from the tariffs…
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Remembering Fred Smith: FedEx Founder & Supply Chain Visionary
"Life is short and it ends, the clock is ticking. Don't get all wrapped up in your personal self, that's a very unhealthy thing to do." - Fred Smith, Founder…
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How Transportation & Logistics Companies Are Tackling Network Security W/ Ken Rutsky
"This is a long standing discussion within the networking and security industry: is there a perimeter? I think the reality is the perimeter still exists…
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Down but Not Out: California's Fight to Regulate Emissions
There have been a number of efforts to regulate a transition to lower logistics-related emissions, and all of them involved the state of California and the…
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A Procurement Crime at Intel: Loopholes and Lessons Learned
While true crime has gained traction as a genre in the literary world, it's not often we see it applied to procurement. Yet, a fascinating and unsettling…
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Prioritizing Dispute Prevention Over Problem Solving
After spending years reviewing business books, Kelly Barner knows how to recognize authors who truly move the needle–and Kate Vitasek is one of them. Her…
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High Velocity Lessons on Lobbying and Trade W/ Samir Kapadia
"In this climate of being a trade professional in Washington, expect to be in an Uber for about half of the day and then the other half of it sitting in rooms…
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Tariffs as a Girder for Domestic Fabricated Steel W/ Stephen Capone and Hollie Noveletsky
"We need to be able to tolerate this uncertainty and the fluctuations that we're undergoing right now and keep our eye on the long term goal of strengthening…
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Semiconductor CHIPS, Checks, and Challenges
"Even though the world's advanced economies are largely considered post-industrial, chipmaking is an area where domestic manufacturing is now being treated as…
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How U.S. Tariffs Are Reshaping Global Freight W/ Judah Levine
Global supply chain leaders and consumers alike have watched for months as the U.S. tariff rollercoaster starts and stops, impacting imported goods. While…
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Supply Chains & Second Chances: Human Trafficking Aftercare
In recent years, a lot of work has been done to raise awareness about the massive problem of human trafficking as well as to start to attack that problem. In…
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Building a U.S. Solar Supply Chain
"Between 2008 and 2013, China's fledgling solar-electric panel industry dropped world prices by 80 percent, a stunning achievement in a fiercely competitive…
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Manufacturing Labor Market Insights in an Uncertain World
Economic commentators often look at consumer spending as a barometer for confidence and outlook - how good or bad financially do individuals and families think…
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Beef with the Big 4: McDonald's vs. the Meat Monopoly
In October of 2024, McDonald's sued four of the world's largest meat producers – Tyson, JBS, Cargill, and National Beef Packing – for allegedly conspiring to…
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In Defense of Lean Thinking W/ Thomas Goldsby
Everything runs in trends, supply chains included. What was once considered a critical strategy can be cancelled in a heartbeat if conditions change - only to…
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Scope 3 Showdown: Green Century v. Ford
On May 8th, at Ford Motor Company's annual shareholder meeting, they will face a proposal focused on how they report their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas…
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LTL Shakeup: Will Amazon join the fray?
A few weeks ago, rumors started to swirl that Amazon might be standing up their own for-hire less-than-truckload (LTL) operation to compete with the likes of…
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Who owns the Panama Canal?
The Panama Canal is a 51 mile long waterway that allows ships to cut about 8,000 miles off of a trip from New York to San Francisco around the route around…
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Decoding the DOGE Savings Calculator
The Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE, was created by executive order on President Trump's first day back in office. It immediately…
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Investing in People-powered Safety in Food Manufacturing W/ Nathan Walts
"Everyone at the plant has a duty to protect the products that we're sending out to the customer. Ultimately, you really have to think about it as sort of a…
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East and Gulf Coast Port Strike – Part 2
Back in October, when the East and Gulf coast port strike ended after 3 days, we knew there would be a part 2. Short though it was, the strike is estimated to…
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A Narrow Path Towards Noninflationary Tariffs
Since President Trump took office on January 20th, speculation about tariffs has been omnipresent in supply chain planning conversations. But we do have a…
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Lessons in Listening from Joe Rogan and Charlamagne tha God
"I talk to people and I record it. That's it." - Joe Rogan People often say that we all need to learn to communicate better, and that is true. But we need to…
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Who will decide the future of EV trucking?
Who will decide when EV trucking goes from being an option available to anyone to an enforceable mandate that everyone must comply with? That question is at…
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Dylan v. Goliath: The Freight Essentials RICO Case
"If anyone thinks that they know it all, they're in the wrong place." - Dylan Admire The series of relationships that make the freight industry work is like a…
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Misfortune on 34th Street: Accounting Issues at Macy's
"It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble." - Tennessee Senator Howard Baker, in reference to the Watergate scandal Whether…
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Nebraska v. California: The EV Trucking Transition
"Now an unelected group of powerful actors has opened a three-front effort to transform the nation's logistics fleet from diesel-powered to electric-powered at…
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The Dawn of a New Era in U.S. Trade Policy
"India is putting their money where their mouth is. If they're able to execute upon a free trade agreement or a pseudo free trade agreement...then that would…
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Reenvisioning Robotics for Warehouse Optimization
"We have that emotional pull to group together as humans and fight the automation. The reality is you cannot have one without the other, and they are very much…
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Re-reading Good to Great at the Start of a New Year
In 2001, Jim Collins published the book 'Good to Great.' He was supported by a team that invested 10.5 'people years' over the course of 5 calendar years to…
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Supply Chain Stories to Watch at the Start of 2025
Many of the supply chain news stories we covered in 2024 look ready to carry right over - or even rise to the top - as we start a new year. Some of these…
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Solving Supply Chain Puzzles: Insights from a Year of Interviews
This year on Art of Supply, we welcomed a fantastic group of guests. Each interview episode creates two kinds of challenges: asking questions worthy of the…
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Supply Chain Forecast: Volatile with Tim Richardson
"I think if you could summarize what the trend is going to be in the future - It's going to be volatile. That's the trend." - Tim Richardson, Founder and CEO…
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In Defense of Outliers
"Polling is a science of estimation, and science has a way of periodically humbling the scientist. So, I'm humbled, yet always willing to learn from unexpected…
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Walking a Mile in Another Supply Chain's Shoes W/ Alex Jennings
"The reason I like listening is I think, 'If I'd have been CPO there or in other organizations, what would I have done to try and prevent that? And what red…
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BONUS: Indictment in the 2022 Tractor Trailer Human Smuggling Case
When we cover a news story on Art of Supply, we stick with it, even when it seems to have gone cold. In late August, we got an update on the case of the 53…
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Liverwurst, Listeria, and Liability: Food Safety at Boar's Head
When something goes wrong in the supply chain, it is never good news. It always leads to disruption, often costs a lot of money, and sometimes people get hurt…
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The Power of Visualization in Freight Optimization and Resilience with Ruud van Dijk
"Humans are so much more effective in processing something visually than, let's say, a table or two pieces of text next to each other. If you see it on a map…
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Consolidating the USPS Final Mile
The United States Postal Service occupies a unique spot in the supply chain. On the one hand, it is a federal agency, tasked with delivering mail to every…
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Creating a B2C to B to C Improvement Cycle at Walmart Business w/ Ashley Hubka
"Most fundamentally, strategy is about asking good questions, creating alternatives, and then making decisions about how to allocate scarce resources. [...]…
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Part 4: Head-to-Head Comparison of Candidate Policies
In the final part of this four-part special series, we compare and contrast the actual policy positions of Democratic Candidate Vice President Kamala Harris…
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Part 3: Republican Candidate Former President Donald J. Trump
In part three of this four-part special series, we will cover the policies and plans of Republican Candidate former President Donald Trump. Former President…
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Part 2: Democratic Candidate Vice President Kamala Harris
In part two of this four-part special series, we will cover the policies and plans of Democratic Candidate Vice President Kamala Harris. Vice President Kamala…
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Part 1: Playing Politics with Supply Chains
There are two weeks to go until the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. Interest, speculation, and tension have been building all year. Most news coverage of the…
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Tips for Surviving in a Brave New World
'Brave New World' was published by Aldous Huxley in 1932, right between two World Wars and during a time of accelerated scientific discovery. It comes as no…
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East and Gulf Coast Port Strike - Part 1
"Let me be clear: we don't want any form of semi-automation or full automation. We want our jobs—the jobs we have historically done for over 132 years."…
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Supply Chains as Business in Action w/ Thomas Goldsby
"The vigor with which companies left to go to the Far East and pursue low cost country sourcing has certainly not been reversed. That's why it is largely…
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Developing and Deploying Digital Empathy
"Digital empathy is the ability to humanize customer behaviors, preferences, and aspirations through the connection between human-centered data, insights, and…
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Evaluating India as a Viable Alternative to China w/ Samir Kapadia
"Folks from Dell to HP to Nike to Hasbro to Sony to Apple to Google to Goldman, they're all looking back at India and saying, let's go double down, triple down…
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Advancements & Adjustments in the GE Appliances Supply Chain
"The way we were running distribution, the processes we were using, it wasn't a matter of, 'Well, just incrementally improve what you've got.' "We needed to…
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Proposed Patent Rule Changes and their Impact on Innovation w/ Wen Xie
Procurement and supply chain professionals rely upon competitive market dynamics. After all, competition drives innovation, cost savings, efficiency, and -…
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The (Lost) Art of Accepting Criticism
"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." - Norman Vincent Peale The Art of Supply podcast regularly…
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Freight Electrification as a Service w/ Ian Rust
There are a lot of preconceived notions about the barriers preventing electrified road freight from becoming mainstream. It is seen as too difficult…
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Fishing for Truth in the Seafood Supply Chain
Companies and consumers regularly rely on product descriptions to decide whether or not to make a purchase and to determine the right price for that product…
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Orchestrating the Chaos of Retail Fulfillment w/ Mike Robinson
"Every time I don't have a delivery truck stop in front of your house, 800 grams of CO2 is never created." - Mike Robinson, Head of Retail Solutions and a…
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Will FedEx Freight hit the open road?
On June 26th, The Wall Street Journal reported that FedEx plans to spin off their freight division - and the most interesting part is why. FedEx Freight is the…
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The Great Supply Train Robbery
According to reporting in the New York Times, about 20 million containers travel through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach California annually. Those…