How many people does it take to make a cup of coffee? For many of us, all it takes is a short walk and a quick pour. But this simple staple is the result of a globe-spanning process whose cost and complexity are far greater than you might imagine. AJ Jacobs traces the journey of this caffeinated elixir from seed to cup.
Continue reading The life cycle of a cup of coffee
IBM Research has developed a solution for the textile industry using the IBM Blockchain Transparent Supply (BTS) platform. It allows users to track the entire spectrum of fabric manufacturing, from the receipt of raw material through cleaning, spinning, weaving, quality assurance, distribution, and sales. Continue reading Blockchain tracks the manufacturing of high-end textiles from sheep to shop
In this excerpt from LeanCor’s online Lean Supply Chain course, you’ll learn what it takes for a package of toilet paper to reach the shelves of a local store.
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In this video I review the distinction between resilience and flexibility, and illustrate why flexibility is a desirable way to build resilience in your operations and supply chain.
Resilience refers to the ability to bounce back from downside risk;Flexibility refers to the ability to handle both downside AND upside risk.
A little bit of flexibility goes a long way: it provides resilience AND can improve profitability. Continue reading Resilience vs. Flexibility in Operations and Supply Chain? 
Threats of disruptions to manufacturing have shifted focus away from merely driving down costs Continue reading Covid forces rewrite of academic textbooks on supply chains and logistics
But before it gets to your morning cup, coffee beans travel through a complex global supply chain. Today’s illustration from Dan Zettwoch breaks down this journey into 10 distinct steps. Continue reading From Bean to Brew: The Coffee Supply Chain
What Toilet Paper Can Teach Us About Supply Chains? Continue reading 
Never before in the post-globalization world have stakeholders been this worried about supply chain complexity, with the 2020 pandemic making it clear that money cannot buy anything or more specifically, it cannot buy anything instantly. As such, in a complex … Continue reading Pandemics and Complex Global Supply Chains
One of the most promising applications of emerging blockchain technology is supply chain management. Blockchain—the digital record-keeping system developed for cryptocurrency networks—can help supply chain partners with some of their challenges by creating a complete, transparent, tamperproof history of the information flows, inventory flows, and financial flows in transactions. Continue reading Building a Transparent Supply Chain
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