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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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De Minimis: Supply Chain Trifles the Law Should be Concerned With
Section 321 of the U.S. Tariff Act of 1930 contains a small provision known as 'de minimis.' From a Latin phrase meaning "the law does not concern itself with…
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Chasing a Common Supply Chain Objective: Saving Lives w/ Adrian Ristow and David Canarutto
"You can't just come with ideas. You've got to show that you're going to be on the journey with them." - Adrian Ristow, Executive Director of Project Last Mile…
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Project Last Mile: A Story Worth Retelling
About 15 years ago, someone noticed that while you could buy a cold Coca-Cola in the most remote corners of Africa, lifesaving medicines that require cold…
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Ultimate Endless Real Estate Costs at Red Lobster
Red Lobster, the largest seafood chain in the United States, declared bankruptcy on May 19, 2024. As of the filing, they had 551 locations operating in 44…
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Former Pioneer Oil CEO Scott Sheffield - Colluder or Scapegoat?
On May 25, the Federal Trade Commission announced their consent for the planned acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources by ExxonMobil. It was the largest…
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Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Progress or Setback?
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, or UFLPA, took effect in June of 2022 to protect an ethnically Turkish, predominantly Muslim minority that lives in the…
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Sending a Powerful Message About America's Pharmaceutical Independence
On April 30th, 2024, the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Personnel, held a hearing about the Department Of Defense's efforts to ensure…
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Symptoms of Disruption in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
Pharmaceutical supply chains are never far from news headlines. Regular drug shortages affect our families, friends, and neighbors when they can't access their…
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Searching for the Limits of Employee Activism at Google
Some corporations have chosen to wade into socially sensitive waters over the last few years and others have been pushed in from behind. The adoption of a…
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The Surging Problem of AI Energy Consumption
On April 9th, Rene Haas, CEO of Arm Holdings, a British semiconductor and software design company came out and made a statement about data center energy…
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Replacing Good Intentions with Good Outcomes at Whistl
"We know what matters to our employees, and we know what matters to our customers, and we know where the leadership view is. That alignment means that you make…
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Examining the Practicality of the EV Truck Mandate
Heavy-duty trucks include tractor-trailers, ambulances, garbage trucks, and school buses. All of these are now on an official timeline for reduced emissions…
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Playing the "China Card" in U.S. Ports
80 percent of all ship-to-shore (S2S) cranes at ports in the United States - and 75 percent of all S2S cranes in the world - are made by just one company…
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Net Zero in New York? JBS Accused of Greenwashing
On February 28, 2024, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued JBS, the largest meat company in the world, for civil fraud. James is accusing the company…
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Even with +1, China is still #1
"China's supply chain has gone through significant, transformative changes in the last five years. For executives or engineers, designers or buyers, who have…
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What You Don't Know Can Hertz You
In October of 2021, Hertz announced that they would purchase 100,000 Tesla Model 3's for their rental fleet, followed by 175,000 from GM, and 65,000 from…
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Treasure Hunting with TJX
The global off-price apparel and home fashion market is estimated to be worth $900 Billion. While retailers like Macy's and Bed Bath & Beyond faltered or fell…
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Three Strikes for the New Baseball Uniform
In early February, news hit that there was a problem with the new Major League Baseball uniforms. Redesigned by Nike and made by Fanatics, the new uniforms…
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Surviving the Supply Chain Arena
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit…
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Time to Return to Just-in-Time?
"Wisdom is given equally to everybody. The point is whether one can exercise it." - Taiichi Ohno, The "Ten Precepts" The supply chain profession has recently…
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Case Dismissed: Byron Allen v. McDonald's
On February 2, 2024, news broke on one of the court cases we've been following for a while. In May of 2023, two of the companies owned by Byron Allen, a black…
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Killer App: The UK Post Office Scandal
In today's digital age, jokes are often made at technology's expense. Computers don't like switching from one virtual meeting platform to another. Sometimes…
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Savings v. Safety in Aircraft Manufacturing
On January 5th, Alaska Airlines flight 1282 left Portland, Oregon en route to Ontario, California. Just minutes into the flight, the Boeing 737 Max 9 lost a…
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The Drone Final Mile Becomes Reality
In 2013, then-Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos predicted that drone deliveries would be a reality in five years. More than 10 years later, they are still largely in the…
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Weight and Value x Distance: Studying Global Supply Chain Use and Cost
In June 2023, Sharat Ganapati, an Assistant Professor of International Economics at Georgetown University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau…
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High Stakes in the Red Sea
On New Year's Eve, weeks of rising tension in the Red Sea reached a boiling point. Houthi militants tried to board the Maersk Hangzhou just one day after…
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Introducing Art of Supply
Effective today, Dial P for Procurement is the Art of Supply. Rather than being a change in content, this rebrand brings the name and brand identity of the…
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2023 Dial P for Procurement Year in Review
Looking all the way back to the beginning of the year has a way of putting everything into perspective. The individual and cumulative impact of all of the…
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Troubling Times for Electric Trucking
With all the recent buzz about electric vehicles (EVs), not to mention the push towards sustainability and emissions reduction, it was only going to be a…
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Reading FedEx Ground the RICO Act
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as RICO, is usually associated with organized crime. It was used in 1992 to bring down the…
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Will the world fiddle while Bangladesh burns?
The People's Republic of Bangladesh in Southeast Asia is the second-largest exporter of ready-made garments in the world. The ready-made garment sector employs…
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The White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience
"Did you ever think we'd be talking this much about supply chains?" - President Biden On Monday, November 27, 2023, President Biden announced the creation of…
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Where are they now?
The stories we cover on Dial P for Procurement are pulled from the headlines, but some have more 'legs' than others. Just because a story, person, or company…
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Supply Chain Post Mortem: Convoy
Convoy was a digital freight brokerage founded by former Amazon executives to digitally revolutionize a high-transaction, low-profit space. Investors included…
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Is it the most wonderful time of the supply chain year?
According to the National Retail Federation, 43 percent of people started doing their holiday shopping in October, leading the NRF to predict a year-over-year…
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Coca-Cola's Project Last Mile
"Coke is everywhere. In fact, when I travel to the developing world, Coke feels ubiquitous. [...] If we can understand what makes something like Coca-Cola…
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The LEGO Sustainability Saga
In 2012, LEGO made a commitment to make all of their bricks out of sustainable materials by 2030, just in time for the company's 100th anniversary. As Tim Guy…
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Negotiating Lessons from Hollywood Labor
The last two years have brought us many news stories about labor unions throwing their weight around. First there was the fear that the railway workers unions…
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Smucker's + Hostess = Supply Chain Synergy
In early September, J.M. Smucker announced that they had struck a deal to acquire Hostess, the 130 year old maker of treats like Twinkies, Ho-Hos, Ding Dongs…
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Books As a Proxy for Free Thought
"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed." ― Benjamin Franklin…
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The Competitive Expectations Behind the Google Antitrust Trial
Google is currently being sued by the U.S. Department of Justice for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. Not since they went after Microsoft in 1994…
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Getting a Kiss From a World Class Supply Chain
After years of pandemic-fueled spikes in demand for chocolate and salty snacks, Hershey's supply chain hit the wall. During The Hershey Company's second…
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The Cold, Hard Facts About Cold Chain Logistics
News stories have a way of going from the front page to the scrap heap, and even the spotlight focused on the supply chain over the past few years couldn't…
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Nerves of U.S. Steel
"You can't unscramble eggs." – J.P. Morgan There are few companies in the United States as storied and historic as U.S. Steel. Dating all the way back to the…
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Dodging the Urban Doom Loop
In the book "Good to Great" by Jim Collins, he writes about the flywheel effect, a prosperous cycle of work and change that eventually picks up speed and…
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Who is to blame for Yellow's demise?
On July 30th 2023, Yellow Freight announced that they would cease operations after 99 years in business. Chapter 11 bankruptcy followed just one week later. It…
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Restoring Business Imagination Through Nature
"For men like Ford, Firestone, and Edison, whose success in the world had given them access to any thing they might want, these impressions [of the great Smoky…
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The Problem with Performative ESG
There is something troubling going on in the ESG movement. Recent news stories on ESG investing, the status of Chief Diversity Officers, and Pride month raise…
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Tesla Takes the Socialist Pledge
China is one of the most important consumer, industrial, and raw materials markets in the world. They also happen to be a bad actor in terms of environmental…
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Public Education as Corporate Social Responsibility
Skills gaps are a huge and costly problem in the corporate world. According to Talent Guard, skill gaps currently cost the U.S. economy around $13 billion per…
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Tracking Procurement from Industry 1.0 - 5.0
Mankind has been on an industrial evolutionary journey since 1760. Starting with the steam engine, we have progressed through hundreds of years of innovation…
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Russia's Wagner Group as Rogue Supplier
On June 23rd, news broke that the Wagner Group, a private militia operating on behalf of Russia in the war with Ukraine, was staging an armed rebellion against…
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R.I.P. Great Resignation (2020-2023)
We have seen many trends come and go over the last few years, and most of them stemmed from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Great Resignation, a surge in people…
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Meet Digit - The Future of Warehouse Automation
Agility Robotics recently released the latest version of their humanoid warehouse robot: Digit. Digit is 5 foot 9, weighs 141 lbs, and can carry up to 35…
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Are contracts obscuring U.S. child labor in your supply chain?
Human rights concerns are at the top of the priority list for supply chain and procurement professionals. Among the most horrifying human rights abuses is…
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Dove's Real Beauty Campaign: Evolution of a Social Message
In 2004, Dove revolutionized skincare marketing by launching their 'Real Beauty' Campaign. Celebrated for the decision to represent women of all shapes, sizes…
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Artistic Revolutions: Comparing the Impact of Photography and Generative AI
Many professionals are worried about the risk associated with advances in generative AI like ChatGPT. Predictions have been made about who and what will be…
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The Laws of Supply and Demand Meat at Tyson Foods
In his book, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Scottish Enlightenment thinker Adam Smith described the 'invisible hand' at play…
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A GAAP in Judgement at Kraft Heinz
Procurement is used to being under pressure to deliver savings, but is that pressure enough to make procurement break the law? That is exactly what happened at…
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JPMorgan Chase Stops the Financial Contagion
In 1907, J.P. Morgan was called back from a trip to help stop a series of bank runs on Wall Street. After watching a string of insolvent banks fail, he decided…