This week just showed why supply chain has become a boardroom line item

Five separate stories crossed the wires this week: a tariff windfall; a closed strait; a burning grain corridor; a labour fight over an Amazon subcontractor; and a Mexican tariff counteroffer. None of them belong to the same industry. However, what puts all of them on a CEO’s desk rather than a supply chain VP’s is that each one is now big enough to move a quarter’s earnings and crosses functional Read full article →