supply chain – The Musings of the Big Red Car https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com 53 years and 204,000 miles of business, CEO, leadership, startup, political, military wisdom Sun, 07 Nov 2021 20:23:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.11 Understanding The Supply Chain Problem https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/understanding-the-supply-chain-problem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=understanding-the-supply-chain-problem Sun, 07 Nov 2021 17:29:36 +0000 https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=10356 Sec Transportation Pete Buttigieg, a chap who could not figure out how to fix potholes as Mayor of South Bend, Indiana is on maternity leave and asked me to ‘splain the supply chain thing to y’all. Here goes:  1. When the Pandemic hit, folks stayed home and surfed the web arriving at Amazon’s site (and […]

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]]> The Supply Chain Comes Home From China https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/the-supply-chain-comes-home-from-china/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-supply-chain-comes-home-from-china Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:26:45 +0000 https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=9247 The COVID19 episode exposed a critical weakness — the American supply chain (particularly medical and pharmaceutical manufacturing) was grounded so thoroughly in China that it could not serve the United States when it was desperately needed. China prevented American companies from shipping product manufactured by American companies in China to the US. Everyone was quick […]

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