Supply Chain Lessons from an Obituary
Adrian Gonzalez
May 19, 2025
I like to read the obituaries in the newspaper, especially the ones in the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal. Most of the people
Gen Z Getting Into Supply Chain Management
Adrian Gonzalez
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Are your kids interested in learning about supply chain management? Are any of them pursuing (or have gotten) a degree in the field? In my
When You Manage Your Supply Chain Like It’s 1999 (Lessons from the IRS)
Adrian Gonzalez
April 4, 2022
Last Friday, one of my April Fools’ fake news headlines was “Forget Spreadsheets: How to Manage a Global Supply Chain with Post-It Notes.” The truth
Taking More Direct Control of Your Supply Chain
Adrian Gonzalez
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Back in March 2014, I wrote the following in Keeping Control: What 3PLs Must Convince Their Customers: For many years, companies viewed logistics as a
Reskilling Employees for Supply Chain Jobs
Adrian Gonzalez
May 17, 2021
In today’s Wall Street Journal, in an article titled Retailers Try to Solve Labor Imbalances by Retraining Staff, Suzanne Kapner highlights how Levi Strauss &
Truckers: Brother, Can You Spare a Parking Spot?
Adrian Gonzalez
January 21, 2015
In my post last week, What Carriers Look For in Shippers, I highlighted the following comment by Ben Cubitt from Transplace: Driver-friendly facilities is another
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