Blue Silk Consulting

I am a member of a very unusual book club. Our club members include four published authors including me, plus several Stanford, Harvard, and Berkeley graduates, engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs. We meet monthly and often chose a difficult book to analyze and examine in depth. We discuss the story, the style, the voice, the historical period, the philosophy, and the author’s life.... https://rcoates.wordpress.com//what-seems-impossible-is-m/

My column today in Supply Chain Management Review: https://www.scmr.com//what_seems_impossible_is_merely_diff

I was quoted throughout this article https://investmentmonitor.ai//manufacturing-industry-40-an

My column today in Supply Chain Management Review https://www.scmr.com//reshoring_is_booming_some_astonishin

Listen to my podcast with Dr. Tulinda Larsen of UAMMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5prOzL-uSo

The Biden-Harris transition website posts Biden’s policy for U.S. manufacturing and for addressing supply chain shortages due to Covid19. But can we take what is written at face value? Like all politicians’ statements, this one is high-level, sweeping verbiage with little defined detail. Of course, this is only the beginning high-level statements made by incoming administrations are just ideas and typically lack execution and implementation detail.... https://rcoates.wordpress.com//biden-has-a-plan-but-will-/

The Sovereign Order of Malta - an old and charitable organization https://www.scmr.com//global_supply_chains_serving_the_nee

https://bit.ly/3lu8ihn #globalsupplychains#reshoring#manufacturing

Have you ever watched the Indianapolis 500? Global supply chains are just like that. Today’s global supply chains are incredibly complex, fast. and full of technology. Planning and execution systems are integrated across the enterprise and at different times, different functions overtake the lead in strategic importance and response. Take the pandemic response, for example. At first, companies were scrambling for parts coming from Wuhan China, involving procurement and logistics. ... https://rcoates.wordpress.com//supply-chain-management-is/

My podcast with Mary Ann Brennan https://womenandmfg.com/putting-the-pro-in-procurement-wit/