A recent Supreme Court ruling in Montgomery vs Caribe Transport the court ruled unanimously that truck,freight brokers could be sued in state courts if a negligent driver or carrier were used. The court ruling implied that brokers who did due … Read More
On Wednesday, February 11, 2026, I attended a presentation by McDonald’s USA on their supply chain at Loyola University’s downtown Chicago campus. Because of its enormous scale, McDonald’s can do far more with its supply chain than most businesses can … Read More
We can be certain that supply chain professionals are operating in uncertain times. Challenges arise from shifting tariffs, rapid advances in artificial intelligence, evolving legal and environmental regulations, and a fragile global economy. Yet, this period also presents an opportunity … Read More
Artificially Intelligence, AI, is the current next big thing. I enjoy reading what it can do for an organization and watch it create the initial version of this essay. However, AI presents challenges to organization management and training people to … Read More
There is a change of presidential administrations coming when President Trump takes office. Here are my thoughts on how the supply chain may be affected. Let’s discuss sustainability, supply and demand of transportation capacity, and federal regulation. Let’s avoid name … Read More
Those of us who read supply chain magazines and books have read a lot about the wonder of “A” customers who supply the bulk of the companies’ profits and how to focus your supply chain to serve them efficiently. A … Read More
There has been a lot written on AI. It is a software that learns from previous iterations and searching the web, maybe both internally and externally. There are many opportunities to use this software in the supply chain and it … Read More
I sometimes think about changing the wording of a famous poem about the sea and lack of water to drink to focus on the flood of data and it would read: Data, Data, everywhere, although the laptop did squeak, data, … Read More
If you are in a B to B, that is a business whose primary customers are other businesses, you are probably staring at the B to C, business selling directly to consumers, supply chain world. Vast changes are happening there, … Read More
I do volunteer work for the Chicago area food bank which goes under the name of the Greater Chicago Food Depository. This organization through its 2004 built warehouse serves Cook County annually shipping 70 million pounds of food per year. … Read More